Travel Nurse RN - PCU - Progressive Care Unit - $2,225 per week

Company: Saint Lukes Hospital
Location: Kansas City
Posted on: February 12, 2025

Job Description:

• Certification Details
• BLS - Basic Life Support
• ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support
• NIH Stroke Certification
• State License 1 Verification
  • Job Details
  • Position / Specialty: Registered Nurse / PCU
  • Ratios: 1:5. *NOTE: On rare occasions, Ratio could flex to 1:6 and travelers will be expected to take the extra patients.
  • Years of experience REQ: 2 Years
  • First-timers accepted: Yes
  • Weekend requirement: 8 weekend shifts in Saint Luke's 6-week schedule period, combination of F/S/S.
  • Holiday shifts and Charge RN assignments as needed per unit.
  • Floating requirement: regular floating may be required between departments, units and facilities as needed.
  • Skills REQ: Work Settings: MS/Tele, PCU/DOU/IMC/Stepdown. Professional Topics and Skills: Isolation Precautions, Wound Care/Wound Vac. Additional Skills: Ostomy Changes/Teaching.
    • Job Requirements
    • Certs REQ: BLS Compact License
    • Must have 2 years of experience
    • Current and valid drivers license or government photo ID.
      • Schedule Information
      • Weekend requirement: 8 weekend shifts in Saint Luke's 6-week schedule period, combination of F/S/S.
      • Holiday shifts and Charge RN assignments as needed per unit.
        • Unit Specific Information
        • Floating may be required between departments, units, and facilities as needed.
          • Additional Details
          • Our primary patients are those that have undergone bariatric surgery, urology cases (TURP or TURBT with CBI, Nephrectomy, Ileal conduit creation, nephroureterectomy), hepatobiliary (Whipple, liver resection, gastric stimulator, complex biliary cases), colorectal (colon resection, ostomy creation and takedown, surgical oncology), and trauma patients - generally those with abdominal injury and also a lot of necrotizing soft tissues infections requiring serial debridement with Wound Vac changes.
          • Special Requirements: Our patients primary pain control post-operatively is via Epidural, PCA, Ketamine grip, and/or lidocaine infusion. Most urology patients will have CBI or long-term catheter (foley vs suprapubic). Many patients from all the surgical specialties will have numerous drains (foley, JP, IR drain, NG tube, Chest Tube, G-Tube, J-Tube, GJ- Tube) and frequently they will have Wound Vacs.

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