LanceSoft is seeking a travel nurse RN PCU - Progressive Care Unit for a travel nursing job in Columbus, Ohio.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: PCU - Progressive Care Unit
• Discipline: RN
• Start Date: ASAP
• Duration: 13 weeks
• 36 hours per week
• Shift: 12 hours, flexible
• Employment Type: Travel

If you accept a 12D/N rotating contract, you may be scheduled for days, nights, or a combination of both, depending on the department’s needs. Shift assignments are reviewed every 4-week scheduling period, but changes are not guaranteed and are based on staffing priorities at that time.

ONCOLOGY EXPERIENCE PREFERRED BUT NOT REQUIRED!

Unit Information:
• Medical Oncology with progressive care beds/pediatric patients.
• High acuity of PCU and small amount of med surg

Schedule:
• No set schedule, no set weekends, no block schedule.
• Facility determines the complete schedule, with the possibility of working every weekend. Must be flexible.
• Maximum 7 straight days off.
• 14-week contract required if taking 7 days off.

Patient Diagnoses:
• Solid Tumor
• Orthopedic Oncology
• Thoracic Oncology
Special Procedures/Unit Details:
•18J is a 36 bed Oncology Telemetry unit with over 24 beds dedicated to PCU level of care. 
-Pediatric patients are cared for on this unit but are extremely rare and would likely be cared for by perm staff. Pediatric experience is NOT required to be agency RN here. 
Required:  High acuity PCU patient experience
-Heavy focus on infection prevention protocols and patient falls
Special Equipment:
• B450 monitors GE telemetry system.
• Bladder Scanner.
• Alaris pumps.
• Stryker beds.
• Continuous Bladder Irrigation
• PCA Pumps

Requirements:
• 2 years of oncology experience preferred, but NOT REQUIRED
• Certifications: Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS), ACLS & NIH
• Ratio: 1:4-5 Med Surg Telemetry
• Ratio: 1:3 PCU
• Required to float within units of equivalent or lower level of acuity.
• Previous travel experience preferred.

Skills Required:
• Interpretation of dysrhythmias
• Use of rapid response teams
• Feeding tube care and management
• Accessing Ports
• Blood Product Administration
• Central line care/management
• Peripheral Line Care/Management
• PICC line management
• Starting IVs
• Heparin Protocols
• Manage Cardia drips- no titration
• PCA
• Titrate Cardiac drips
• Chest tubes-Emerson/Pleur-evac
• External CPAP/BIPAP 
• High Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC) 
• Interpretation of ABGs 
• Nasal Cannula
• Tracheostomy Management

Skills Preferred:
• Management of dysrhythmias
• IV insulin protocols
• Titration of Insulin drips
• Phlebotomy
• Chemotherapy Administration
• Monitoring Chemotherapy
• Wound Care/Wound Vac
• Arterial line management
• Surgical drains

 

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Benefits

• Weekly pay
• Medical benefits