Travel Nurse Rn - Pcu In Albany, Ga

**Job Title:** Registered Nurse (RN)

**Job Specialty:** Progressive Care Unit - Stepdown

**Job Duration:** 17 weeks

**Shift:** 12-Hour Days

**Guaranteed Hours:** 36 hours per week

**Experience:** Minimum 2 years in Stepdown in an acute care setting

**License:** Required

**Certifications:** ACLS, BLS

**Must-Have:**
- Compliance with radius rule: Must reside at least 75 miles from facility based on driver's license
- Ability to read and interpret strips

**Job Description:**

- Work within a cardiology-focused stepdown unit with 44 beds, including 8 semiprivate rooms
- Ratio of 1 nurse to 5 patients
- Care for patients post-cardiovascular surgeries and procedures such as CABG, femoral popliteal bypass, arteriogram, carotid endarterectomies, and others
- Deliver care to patients with complex cardiac conditions including CHF, afib with RVR, and others
- Administer and titrate medications such as Cardizem, amiodarone, dobutamine, dopamine, lasix, and others
- Support non-invasive ventilation therapies, including BiPAP and CPAP
- Collaborate with in-house hospitalists or intensivists available 24/7
- Participate in a fast-paced environment with frequent admissions and discharges
- Work every other weekend and flexible around holidays
- Comply with dress code: Caribbean blue scrubs, natural hair colors, no fake nails or facial piercing, and no visible tattoos
- Patient charting using Meditech EMR system
- Willingness to float to ICU for stepdown patients or task within ICU without ICU experience
- Completion of a floor-specific orientation program consisting of three shifts

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