• A Registered Nurse provides professional nursing services and patient care in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings.
• Progressive care nursing jobs involve care for patients requiring close monitoring and frequent assessment, but who aren t unstable enough to need ICU care.
• PCU nurses monitor cardiac and other critical vital signs and detect any changes, thereby enabling intervention of life-threatening or emergency situations.

RN Progressive care unit Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provides nursing care to critically ill patients.
• Heart attack, defibrillator or pacemaker implant or other cardiac condition.
• Stroke.
• Cancer or orthopedic surgery.
• Severe pneumonia.
• Epsis or other serious or systemic infection.
• Initiates and revises the patient s plan of care based on continuing assessments.
• Includes patient teaching and discharge planning in overall plan of care.
• Incorporates clinical and technical aspects of care with nursing actions and interventions in accordance with established policies, standards and procedures.
• Documents nursing interventions and patient response according to hospital policy.
• Evaluates effectiveness of nursing interventions and methods of implementation. Practices within the limits of the state's Nurse Practice Act and health care facility and nursing administrative policies.
• Supervises ancillary personnel in their performance of assigned job-related duties.
• Ensures patient confidentiality and the rights of the patient.
• Maintains and updates skills needed for excellence in patient care.
• Progressive care nursing jobs involve care for patients requiring close monitoring and frequent assessment, but who aren't unstable enough to need ICU care.
• PCU nurses monitor cardiac and other critical vital signs and detect any changes, thereby enabling intervention of life-threatening or emergency situations.
• Many PCU patients receive complex medications that may require titration based on the patients vital signs.
• The PCU nurse is sometimes also called a step-down nurse and the PCU is also known as cardiac step-down, medical step-down, neuro step-down, surgical step-down and ER holding.

Minimum Job Requirements:

• Graduate of an accredited school of Nursing, with current licensure in state practicing in good standing in the state of practice
• Evidence of current BLS and ACLS credential mandatory.
• Evidence of Minimum Two years of current hospital experience.