Travel Nurse RN

Company: Travel Nurse Across America
Location: Kansas City
Posted on: October 7, 2024

Job Description:

Travel Nurse PCU - Progressive Care Unit Job in Kansas City, Missouri
We're seeking a travel nurse RN for a 13-week assignment in Kansas City, MO, caring for patients who require close monitoring and frequent assessment.
Job Requirements

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• Specialty: PCU - Progressive Care Unit
  
• Discipline: RN
  
• Duration: 13 weeks
  
• Hours: 48 hours per week
  
• Shift: 12 hours, nights
  
• Employment Type: Travel
  
  As a PCU Travel Nurse, you will care for patients who require close monitoring and frequent assessment, but aren't unstable enough to need ICU care. You will utilize computer equipment to monitor cardiac and other vital information, detecting any changes and thereby enabling intervention of life-threatening or emergency situations.
  Responsibilities
  
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  • Provide basic bedside care; stabilize critical cardiac patients.
    
  • Change dressings, insert catheters and start IVs.
    
  • Prepare, administer and record prescribed medication, reporting any adverse reactions to treatment.
    
  • Monitor and adjust specialized equipment used on patients, and interpret and record electronic displays.
    
  • Initiate corrective action whenever information from monitoring equipment shows adverse symptomatology.
    
    PCU Travel Nurses should be able to stand and walk for long periods of time, as well as bend, lean and stoop without difficulty. RNs should be able to easily lift 20 pounds. Moving or lifting of patients may require lifting of up to 50 pounds at times.
    Requirements
    
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    • ACLS certification
      
    • BLS certification
      
    • 2 years of recent acute care experience
      
      At Travel Nurse Across America, we take pride in doing things differently. We place our healthcare travelers on high-paying assignments in exciting locations across the country, but it's our service before, during and after your assignment that sets us apart.
      Benefits
      
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      • Guaranteed Pay
        
      • Paid Sick Leave
        
      • Travel Reimbursement
        
      • Your Way is Paid
        
      • Housing
        
      • Insurance
        

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