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Job ID: 892070
Estimated Weekly Gross: $1,993.82
Job Title
Registered Nurse – IMC / PCU / Stepdown (Cardiac Progressive Care)
Location
Burlington, NC | Intermediate Care / Progressive Care Unit
Schedule / Job Type
Contract | Nights | 3×12-Hour Shifts | 7:00 PM – 7:30 AM | Weekend rotation required; holidays as needed
Key Responsibilities
- Provide direct nursing care on a 30-bed private-room Cardiac Medical Progressive Care unit operating 24/7, with rooms remotely monitored by a Centralized Cardiac Monitoring Department
- Manage a primary cardiac patient population including Congestive Heart Failure, Acute Coronary Syndrome, arrhythmias, pre- and post-cardiac catheterization (with and without intervention), rule-out myocardial infarction, syncope, and pacemaker placement
- Support a secondary respiratory patient population including COPD, pneumonia, and BiPAP-dependent patients
- Perform telemetry interpretation and management of dysrhythmias; manage cardiac and vasoactive drips including titration; administer procedural sedation; and manage chest tubes (Emerson, Pleur-evac), external CPAP/BiPAP, tracheostomies, PICC lines, and peripheral lines
- Participate in a self-assisted scheduling system over 6-week scheduling periods; assignments distributed based on departmental need, patient work intensity, skill mix, and previous assignments
- Collaborate with Nurse Assistants (available 24/7) and RN secretarial support (7:00 AM – 11:00 PM); utilize Rapid Response Teams as appropriate
Required Qualifications
- Active RN license in hand at time of submission
- BLS and ACLS certifications required
- Minimum 2 years of RN experience required; Cardiac PCU experience required
- Comfort with patient ratios of 1:5 (general) and 1:4 (patients on drips or BiPAP)
- EPIC EMR experience required
- Must pass a compliance EKG exam (2 attempts allowed) prior to placement
- Must reside more than 50 miles from the facility to be eligible; current driver’s license required to verify address
- Active, unrestricted license with no open background cases; third-party education verification required
- Travelers may be floated to other system campuses as needed
- Requested time off must be submitted with the application; no post-submission RTO will be accepted
Preferred Experience / Skills
- Previous Charge RN experience preferred
- NIH Stroke Scale certification preferred
- Experience utilizing Rapid Response Teams
- First-time travelers are welcome to apply
Why Join Us
- Work in a structured, well-supported cardiac progressive care environment with Nurse Assistant coverage around the clock and access to centralized cardiac monitoring
- First-time travelers are encouraged to apply, making this an excellent opportunity to launch a travel nursing career in a specialty cardiac setting