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Aya Healthcare · Puyallup, WATravel

Registered Nurse - PCU

TypeFull time
Assignment13 weeks
ShiftNights
Experience2 yrs
PostedOct 28
✓You’ll need
Certifications
✓ICU: ACLS, BLS, NIHSS
✓PCU: ACLS, BLS, NIHSS
✓MedSurg: BLS, NIHSS
Qualifications
✓ICU: Cardiac rhythm interpretation, Vent management, invasive line management, ostomy, general drains, trachs
✓PCU: Cardiac rhythm interpretation, Chest tubes, lumbar drains, traches, required
✓IV med titration (Amiodarone, Cardizem, nitro, dopamine, dobutamine, non-DKA insulin, heparin
✓Sometimes Cardene)
✓Med-Surg: IVs, PCAs, Chest Tubes, drains, ostomies, IV ABX
✓All clinicians must also have good communication and patient teaching/education skills
✓ICU: 1:14
✓PCU: 1:10
✓MS: 1:8-10
✓Hospitalist 24/7
✓Intensivist 24/7
✓EMR: Epic
✓IV Pump: Alaris
✓Med dispensing: Pyxis
✓Floating: If yes, where?
✓Could float for partial shifts
✓Will float within scope of practice and below
✓2 days of hospital orientation: login access, modules, etc
✓1 day on assigned unit
✓Traveler Telemetry Competency Required
✓Number given during orientation
✓Assignment also post outside the door of the House Supervisors office
✓Must be on time to the correct unit by 0700 or 1900
✓Cannot clock in before 0653/1853
✓Weekends will vary depending on the needs of the unit
✓Schedule provided 3 weeks at a time, received around 10 days prior to schedule beginning
✓No holiday requests, self scheduling, on-call
✓Approve time off up to 5 days, additional days email NM Todd Murray
✓If requesting time off, must be willing to add to the end of the assignment
✓Award Offer Posted by: Stephanie Jenkins - 9/28/2026 2:35 PM
Must call RMC staffing office at least 30-45 mins to get assignment each shift. (Preferred Option)
Multicare Good Samaritan Hospital
318beds
31 miPuyallup to Seattle
Pay for this position
$2,082 – $2,312/wk
Washington Med/Surg RN contractsmedian $2,184/wk
$1,600/wkFloor 5% below the Washington median floor$3,600/wk
New Washington Med/Surg RN contracts paying $2,050+/wk
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✓You’ll need
Certifications
✓ICU: ACLS, BLS, NIHSS
✓PCU: ACLS, BLS, NIHSS
✓MedSurg: BLS, NIHSS
Qualifications
✓ICU: Cardiac rhythm interpretation, Vent management, invasive line management, ostomy, general drains, trachs
✓PCU: Cardiac rhythm interpretation, Chest tubes, lumbar drains, traches, required
✓IV med titration (Amiodarone, Cardizem, nitro, dopamine, dobutamine, non-DKA insulin, heparin
✓Sometimes Cardene)
✓Med-Surg: IVs, PCAs, Chest Tubes, drains, ostomies, IV ABX
✓All clinicians must also have good communication and patient teaching/education skills
✓ICU: 1:14
✓PCU: 1:10
✓MS: 1:8-10
✓Hospitalist 24/7
✓Intensivist 24/7
✓EMR: Epic
✓IV Pump: Alaris
✓Med dispensing: Pyxis
✓Floating: If yes, where?
✓Could float for partial shifts
✓Will float within scope of practice and below
✓2 days of hospital orientation: login access, modules, etc
✓1 day on assigned unit
✓Traveler Telemetry Competency Required
✓Number given during orientation
✓Assignment also post outside the door of the House Supervisors office
✓Must be on time to the correct unit by 0700 or 1900
✓Cannot clock in before 0653/1853
✓Weekends will vary depending on the needs of the unit
✓Schedule provided 3 weeks at a time, received around 10 days prior to schedule beginning
✓No holiday requests, self scheduling, on-call
✓Approve time off up to 5 days, additional days email NM Todd Murray
✓If requesting time off, must be willing to add to the end of the assignment
✓Award Offer Posted by: Stephanie Jenkins - 9/28/2026 2:35 PM
Must call RMC staffing office at least 30-45 mins to get assignment each shift. (Preferred Option)
Multicare Good Samaritan Hospital
318beds
31 miPuyallup to Seattle
New Washington Med/Surg RN contracts paying $2,050+/wk
Weekly. Verified links and pay changes. No account.
Email me new Med / Surg jobs in Washington paying $2,050+/wk
Weekly verified job links and pay changes. Free, no account needed, unsubscribe anytime.

Full employer posting

  • Simplifi Clincial Interviewing- Will be Mainly ED-HOLD FLOATING
  • Mainly Supporting GSH 1 Dally/2 River North and South/Float Pool Teams.
  • Unit Information:
  • Beds: varies depending on unit. See units below:
  • MSICU: 40 beds
  • CVICU: 10 (no specific CVICU experience needed, just added for bed count visibility)
  • PCU: 40 beds
  • 2R PCU Obs: 18 Beds OBS South when open for overflow can increase to 27 total beds
  • CCU: 30 beds
  • Medical: 89 beds
  • Surgical: 55 beds
  • Flex Unit: 9 beds (consists of PCU and MS patients)
  • Inpatient Rehab: 47 beds on two floors
  • ER holding unit (Patients waiting on a bed)
  • Any COVID overflow
  • Minimum Years of Experience required?
  • ICU: 2 years of ICU experience
  • PCU/PCU ER holds: 2 years of PCU experience
  • MS: 2 years in acute care setting
  • Will you accept a first-time traveler? Yes
  • Patient Types/Common Diagnoses:
  • ICU: 14 beds
  • Respiratory Failure, GI Bleeds, DKA, Sepsis, Complicated Post-operative Patients, CVAs, Flap surgeries, Post-Arrest, ETOH, IVDA
  • Higher Level Therapies: Rotoprone, Manual Prone, Hypothermia Protocol, CRRT, TPA, Flap Surgeries (will not take these patients)
  • No craniotomies, major traumas, or major cardiothoracic
  • PCU: 40 beds: 2R Obs 18 beds
  • Respiratory compromise, Sepsis, renal failure, bleeding disorders, general medical/surgical patients, CHF, COPD, Pneumonia, General, ortho cases
  • Med-Surg: Medical: 89 beds Surgical: 55 beds
  • MS Oncology:
  • Oncology: Neutropenic, post-op
  • Psych
  • General Medical Surgical: post-op, COPD, CHF, Sepsis, DVT, AKI, Dialysis, COVID
  • COVID is common on this floor.
  • MS Ortho:
  • Total joints, post-surgical patients, general medical overflow
  • MS Palliative:
  • General Medical: pneumonia, sepsis, CHF, COPD, AKI, DVT, PE, occasionally surgical, COVID
  • Rehab: 47 beds on two floors
  • Neuro: Stroke, Spinal Cord injury, TBI, Multi-Trauma, Post Covid, Post ICU
  • Vents, Traches are on the unit
  • Respiratory therapy works to give just in time training
  • Med-Surg level acuity type patients
  • ED Holding
  • This will be the primary unit the traveler will be working (per NM 1/21/2025)
  • Will have mixed diagnosis
  • ICU patients 1:2; PCU 1:4; MS 1:5
  • ICU & PCU nurses will have a 1:5 assignment if MS
  • Will have isolation patients, non-ambulatory patients
  • Is a fast-paced unit
  • Traveler will need to be flexible and resourceful
  • ACLS Transport
  • This RN will transport patients throughout the entire hospital. This would include all inpatient units, ED, CT, MRI, Nuc Med, PACU, Cath Lab, etc.
  • Night shift ACLS RN. After 2300 the transports slow down and at that time we want the ACLS RN to go down to ED Holds Area and be a resource to help assist that unit with breaks, med administration, etc when they are not transporting someone. Typically, the day shift ACLS RNs start getting busy right at 0730-0800 and never slow down the rest of the day.
  • Patient Ratios:
  • ICU 1:2 based on acuity
  • PCU and CCU 1:4 depending on acuity or if patient discharging
  • Medical and Surgical 1:5
  • If PCU floated to MS- will have a 1:5 ratio
  • Rehab: 1:8 team model (RN, LPN, Tech)
  • Required License, National Certification, Certs:
  • ICU: ACLS, BLS, NIHSS
  • PCU: ACLS, BLS, NIHSS
  • MedSurg: BLS, NIHSS
  • Skills required:
  • ICU: Cardiac rhythm interpretation, Vent management, invasive line management, ostomy, general drains, trachs
  • PCU: Cardiac rhythm interpretation, Chest tubes, lumbar drains, traches, required IV med titration (Amiodarone, Cardizem, nitro, dopamine, dobutamine, non-DKA insulin, heparin; sometimes Cardene)
  • Med-Surg: IVs, PCAs, Chest Tubes, drains, ostomies, IV ABX
  • All clinicians must also have good communication and patient teaching/education skills
  • Support within the Department:
  • Techs
  • ICU: 1:14
  • PCU: 1:10
  • MS: 1:8-10
  • RT 24/7
  • Hospitalist 24/7
  • Intensivist 24/7
  • Technology/Equipment:
  • EMR: EPIC
  • IV Pump: Alaris
  • Med dispensing: Pyxis
  • Floating: If yes, where?
  • Could float for partial shifts
  • Will float within scope of practice and below
  • Orientation (facility and unit):
  • 2 days of hospital orientation: login access, modules, etc.
  • 1 day on assigned unit
  • Traveler Telemetry Competency Required
  • Scheduling:
  • Must call RMC staffing office at least 30-45 mins to get assignment each shift. (Preferred Option). Number given during orientation.
  • Assignment also post outside the door of the House Supervisors office.
  • Must be on time to the correct unit by 0700 or 1900
  • Cannot clock in before 0653/1853
  • Weekends will vary depending on the needs of the unit.
  • Schedule provided 3 weeks at a time, received around 10 days prior to schedule beginning
  • No holiday requests, self scheduling, on-call
  • Approve time off up to 5 days, additional days email NM Todd Murray
  • If requesting time off, must be willing to add to the end of the assignment Award Offer Posted by: Stephanie Jenkins - 9/28/2026 2:35 PM

About the role

Respiratory Failure, GI Bleeds, DKA, Sepsis, Complicated Post-operative Patients, CVAs, Flap surgeries, Post-Arrest, ETOH, IVDA