Registered Nurse - Progressive Care-R4

Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital•Plattsburgh, NY

3d•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 license
Progressive Care Unit experience

Nice To Haves

Committee commitments
Education seminars
Certifications
Advancement in degree
LEAD
Preceptor course
Within-department education

Responsibilities

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