Registered Nurse - Progression Care - R3

Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital•Plattsburgh, NY

19h•Onsite

About The Position

As a nurse on the Progressive Care Unit, you can care for a wide range of moderately complex patients between two unique units, R3/R4. PCU provides advanced monitoring with sophisticated equipment, intensive treatments, and a team approach to promote wellness through assessment, monitoring, and education in critically ill patients. The Progressive Care nurse primarily treats patients with the following diagnosis: compromised airway requiring intensive respiratory therapy, controlled infusion of antiarrhythmic or vasoactive IV drug therapy, acute poisoning, suicide attempts, multisystem failure, neurologic abnormalities, metabolic crisis, multiple trauma, chest pain, myocardial infarction, heart failure, hemodynamic instability, invasive hemodynamic monitoring, post-anesthesia care, mechanical ventilation, cardiac monitoring, arrhythmia analysis, thrombolytic therapy, GI bleeding, internal/external pacing, electrical cardioversion, acute dialysis (peritoneal, hemodialysis) and post-cardiac arrest. PCU nurses are encouraged and supported for professional growth with committee commitments, education seminars, certifications, advancement in degree, LEAD, preceptor course, and within-department education.

Requirements

Registered Nurse
Proficiency in advanced monitoring with sophisticated equipment
Skilled in intensive treatments
Ability to promote wellness through assessment, monitoring, and education
Experience with critically ill patients
Experience with patients requiring intensive respiratory therapy
Experience with controlled infusion of antiarrhythmic or vasoactive IV drug therapy
Experience with acute poisoning and suicide attempts
Experience with multisystem failure, neurologic abnormalities, metabolic crisis, and multiple trauma
Experience with chest pain, myocardial infarction, heart failure, and hemodynamic instability
Experience with invasive hemodynamic monitoring
Experience with post-anesthesia care
Experience with mechanical ventilation
Experience with cardiac monitoring and arrhythmia analysis
Experience with thrombolytic therapy
Experience with GI bleeding
Experience with internal/external pacing
Experience with electrical cardioversion
Experience with acute dialysis (peritoneal, hemodialysis)
Experience with post-cardiac arrest patients

Nice To Haves

Professional growth through committee commitments
Participation in education seminars
Obtaining certifications
Advancement in degree
LEAD program participation
Completion of preceptor course
Engagement in within-department education

Responsibilities

Care for a wide range of moderately complex patients.
Utilize advanced monitoring with sophisticated equipment.
Provide intensive treatments.
Promote wellness through assessment, monitoring, and education in critically ill patients.
Treat patients with compromised airways requiring intensive respiratory therapy.
Administer controlled infusions of antiarrhythmic or vasoactive IV drug therapy.
Manage patients with acute poisoning and suicide attempts.
Care for patients with multisystem failure, neurologic abnormalities, metabolic crisis, and multiple trauma.
Monitor patients with chest pain, myocardial infarction, heart failure, and hemodynamic instability.
Perform invasive hemodynamic monitoring.
Provide post-anesthesia care.
Manage patients on mechanical ventilation.
Perform cardiac monitoring and arrhythmia analysis.
Administer thrombolytic therapy.
Monitor patients with GI bleeding.
Manage internal/external pacing.
Perform electrical cardioversion.
Provide acute dialysis (peritoneal, hemodialysis).
Care for post-cardiac arrest patients.
Engage in committee commitments.
Participate in education seminars.
Pursue certifications.
Advance degree.
Participate in LEAD programs.
Complete preceptor courses.
Engage in within-department education.