- CLINICAL INTERVIEW UNIT General Information
- Beds: 44
- Minimum
- 1.5 years general nursing experience - 1 year specific to PCU
- Will you accept a first-time traveler? Yes, only with 2+ years of experience
- Travelers must live 100 miles away from any Monument Health facility
- Permanent staff must wait 1 full year to return as a traveler
- Patient Types:
- This is a mixed acuity unit meaning there will be Intermediate Care acuity as well as Tele and MedSurg - please ensure traveler understands
- Direct admits, ED admits, Post Cath Lab, etc
- MI, NSTEMI & STEMI (IABP would go to ICU), CHF, Dysrhythmia management, Pacemaker malfunction, Epicardial pacers
- Backup Stroke unit and Medical Overflow
- Step down level experience with post cardiac/vascular, post-cardiac cath patients, post open heart surgery, post TAVR, post EP studies, post pacemaker insertion
- Patient Ratios:
- RN: 1:4 most of the time, can be 1:3 (acuity dependent)
- Required
• BLS, ACLS, NIHSS• Required
- Completion of a nursing education program that is approved by a board of nursing; Registered Nurse (RN) - South Dakota Board of Nursing
- Skills required:
- PCU level RN
- Experience with Cardiac procedural recovery (CABG/TAVR/post cardiac cath), MI pharmacology, titratable Cardiac/vasoactive gtts (Cardizem, Amiodarone, Nitro, Levo, Dopamine) - please request manager approval if traveler does not have this, Heparin gtts, cardiac rhythm interpretation, chest tubes management, TNK administration (preferred)
- Support on the Unit:
- CNA (Ratio: 1:5-8, depending on shift)
- Charge nurse - Unassigned
- Phlebotomy - Yes, peripheral blood draws
- IV/VAT Team - No
- Resource Nurse - Occasionally
- Tele tech would oversee cardiac monitoring - RN would confirm strips 6a & 6p
- RT - yes, 24/7
- Hospitalist - in facility 24/7, but not dedicated to unit
- Charting System/Equipment:
- Epic - please let CRT know if traveler does not have EPIC experience so they can ask approval
- Alaris
- Omnicell
- Floating: If yes, where?
- Primarily to our sister unit, General PCU - as needed
- Could also be floated to MS/Tele or ICU to care for PCU level patients
- Could be floated within scope of practice and below
- Orientation: (facility and unit)
- 2 partial days of education
- (3) 12hr shifts on the unit
- Scheduling:
- Weekend rotation: Every other
- Will they be on call? If so, what is that schedule? No call
- Holiday Expectations: Every other
- Approval of time off? Up to 7 days, must extend if taking a full week off. No time off the first (3) weeks of August annually (Sturgis Bike Rally)
- Other notes:
- Could be expected to precept students
- Scrub Color: Navy Blue
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