Registered Nurse / Progressive Care Unit

Job Summary:
Progressive Care Unit (PCU) Nurse Location unspecified. This position involves providing specialized patient care within a PCU, supporting unit-specific protocols and ensuring quality patient outcomes during night shifts. The role requires critical thinking, advanced cardiac skills, and the ability to work cohesively with a healthcare team in a fast-paced environment.

Job Details:

• Schedule: 12-hour night shifts, minimum of 36 hours per week.
• Required Qualifications: Valid BLS (Basic Life Support) and ACLS (Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support) certifications. Experience with EKG rhythm interpretation, cardiac drips, insulin drips, and heparin drips. Critical thinking skills, peripheral IV skills, and experience with bipaps, high flow oxygen, and various oxygen delivery systems are essential. Peritoneal dialysis experience and stroke/post-cardiac catheter care preferred.
• Preferred Qualifications: Experience with tube feedings, NG/Dobhoff tubes, wound vacs, thoracentesis, paracentesis, chest tube insertions, and central line dressing changes.
• Additional Information: Candidates should be comfortable floating within PCU units or to med-surgical floors as needed. The unit practices self-scheduling, with a four-week schedule requiring work every other weekend. Focus on hourly rounding, communication, teamwork, and a family-like care culture.

Benefits
The benefits of taking a travel assignment with Cross Country include:

• Private housing or generous housing allowance
• Comprehensive health insurance with prescription coverage
• Dependent health insurance with prescription coverage
• Competitive salaries
• Referral bonuses
• Travel reimbursement
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Direct deposit/free checking
• Unlimited free CE credits

Other

As one of the leading suppliers of travel healthcare professionals and a Best of Staffing® Talent Award winner, Cross Country Nurses offers thousands of opportunities for healthcare professionals across the country. We have relationships with more than 2,500 healthcare facilities nationwide and offer excellent compensation and one of the most comprehensive benefits packages in the industry. Have the freedom to decide where you want to work and take your career where you want it to go when you travel with us.