Travel Nurse RN - Progressive Care Unit - $3,400 per week, Nights

Company: Quality Nurses
Location: Santa Cruz
Posted on: July 30, 2022

Job Description:

Quality Nurses is seeking a travel nurse RN Progressive Care Unit for a travel nursing job in Santa Cruz, California.Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: Progressive Care Unit
• Discipline: RN
• Start Date: 09/19/2022
• Duration: 13 weeks
• 36 hours per week
• Shift: 12 hours, nights
• Employment Type: TravelAs travel nurses ourselves, we understand all the reasons to avoid taking an assignment with an agency you've never worked with before. We want to reward you for giving us a chance, so when you sign for your first assignment (of 13 weeks or more) with us from now until August 31st we will include a $1,000 bonus on your first paycheck.- Unit: TCU--Telemetry, cardiac intervention unit and tele overflow
  - # beds: 20 tele beds, 16 cardiac intervention beds and 8 overflow tele beds (these are all a stepdown level of care)--all same cost center so will cover all
  - Certs: BLS, ACLS, NIHSS, if going to do Charge Nurse must be Progressive Care Certified Nurse
  - Ratios: 1:3 or 1:4 based on acuity
  - EMR: Cerner
  - Charge Nurse: Yes run with no patients
  - Nurse Aides: Run 1 per every 12 patients; run 3 with full unit
  - Weekend Requirement: Every other weekend (Fri/Sat nights, Sat/Sun for days)
  - Holidays: Every other holiday rotating
  - Scrub Color: Navy
  - Tele: Phillips monitors, must read and interpret strips; do have monitor techs
  - Vents: No full vent, do have CPAP, BIPAP and Hi-flow O2
  - Hospitalist or Intensivist in house: Yes 24/7
  - IV Team: Yes 08-1600
  - RT 24/7: Yes
  - Pharmacy 24/7: Yes
  - Shifts: 7a-7p, 3p-3a, 7p-7a
  - Floating: No full vent, do have CPAP, BIPAP and Hi-flow O2
  - Floor specific orientation: 3 shifts on the unit
  - Common diagnosis/Types of patients: Post cath patients both clean and interventions; post TEE, Post cardioversion, ablations, AICD, sometimes external temp pacer patients, sometimes transcutaneous pacing, chest tubes, tube feedings, lots of drains, must be very fluent in gtts--will titrate down; gtts seen include amiodarone, cardizem, nitro, pressors, dopamine, insulin, heparin, etc...
  - Additional Notes: Stepdown nurses needed not med teleQuality Nurses Job ID #d375482. Pay package is based on 12 hour shifts and 36 hours per week (subject to confirmation) with tax-free stipend amount to be determined.About Quality NursesWe are travelers building the kind of agency we always wanted, while still working assignments.We are transparent. Our clinicians are just as important to us as our customers.We only hire clinicians we'd be glad to work with on the same unit. If approved, you will get your own admin dedicated to helping you with everything before, during, and after each assignment for your entire time with us.--More info:---Pay is every Friday starting the second Friday of your assignment.
  We do not provide:
  -Housing-Any Reimbursements (including onboarding requirements) other than the max allowable GSA Per Diem for qualified travelers-Health insurance-401k plan-Referral bonusesBenefits
  • Weekly pay
  • Cancelation protection
  • Holiday Pay
  • Guaranteed Hours

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