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Travel Nurse RN - PCU - Progressive Care Unit - $2,585 per week

TotalMed · Lynchburg, VA · 1 mo ago
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We need to output HTML fragment with sections for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We need to parse the job posting. Key info: - Title: Progressive Care Unit - PCU RN - Travel Nurse (but we don't repeat as heading) - Location: Lynchburg, Virginia (maybe include in About the role) - Specialty: PCU - Progressive Care Unit - Discipline: RN - Start Date: 10/12/2026 - Duration: 20 weeks - 48 hours per week - Shift: 12 hours, nights - Employment Type: Travel - Description: As a PCU Travel Nurse, you will care for patients who require close monitoring and frequent assessment, but aren't unstable enough to need ICU care. Progressive Care Unit RNs will utilize computer equipment to monitor cardiac and other vital information, detecting any changes and thereby enabling intervention of life-threatening or emergency situations. Close observation is necessary as many PCU patients receive a significant amount of complex medications, sometimes through an intravenous line that may need to be adjusted or titrated. The PCU RN is sometimes also called a step-down nurse, and the PCU is also known as cardiac stepdown, medical stepdown, neuro stepdown, surgical stepdown and ER holding. As a PCU Travel Nurse, you should be prepared to perform the following tasks: (list tasks) Tasks list: - Provide basic bedside care; stabilize critical cardiac patients. - Change dressings, insert catheters and start IVs. - Prepare, administer and record prescribed medication, reporting any adverse reactions to treatment. - Monitor and adjust specialized equipment used on patients, and interpret and record electronic displays. - Initiate corrective action whenever information from monitoring equipment shows adverse symptomatology. Physical requirements: - PCU Travel Nurses should be able to stand and walk for long periods of time, as well as bend, lean and stoop without difficulty. - RNs should be able to easily lift 20 pounds. - Moving or lifting of patients may require lifting of up to 50 pounds at times. - Because of the fast-paced environment, Progressive Care Unit RNs must possess good skills for coping with stress and be able to relate to people of all ages and backgrounds. Requirements*: ACLS, BLS, 2 Years * Additional certifications may be required before beginning an assignment. Pay: "Pay package is based on 12 hour shifts and 48.0 hours per week (subject to confirmation) with tax-free stipend amount to be determined." This is vague; we need to include Pay section only if posting actually states them. It states pay package based on 12 hour shifts and 48 hours per week, tax-free stipend amount to be determined. That's somewhat specific but not a numeric amount. The instruction: "never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. 'commensurate with experience', 'not specified', 'N/A', 'varies', 'TBD')". Here "tax-free stipend amount to be determined" is placeholder/TBD. So we should not include Pay section because it's not a concrete amount. However we could include Pay if we consider the description of shift and hours as pay basis? But likely they want actual pay numbers. Since not given, omit Pay. Schedule: we have shift: 12 hours, nights; 48 hours per week. That's specific. So we can include Schedule section with that info. Benefits: list provided: Weekly pay, Guaranteed Hours, Continuing Education, 401k retirement plan, Sick pay, Wellness and fitness programs, Referral bonus, Employee assistance programs, Medical benefits, Dental benefits, Vision benefits, Benefits start day 1. That's specific. So include Benefits. About the role: we can include description of role, location, start date, duration, etc. That's substantive. Responsibilities: we have tasks list; could be responsibilities. Requirements: we have ACLS, BLS, 2 Years (experience). Also mention additional certifications may be required. That's specific enough. Qualifications: maybe overlapping with requirements; but we could separate: Qualifications could be education (RN license) etc. Not explicitly given. The posting mentions RN discipline, but not explicit qualification like RN license. Could infer but better not to invent. So maybe we skip Qualifications if not explicit. Skills: we have physical requirements, stress coping, relating to people, etc. Could be skills. But we might combine into Requirements or Skills. The instruction: prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could have About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Benefits, Schedule. That's five sections. We need to use

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    or drop it. So we can include start date, duration, etc in About the role paragraph. We must remove boilerplate like EEO etc. Not present. We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. Let's craft:

    About the role

    TotalMed RN is seeking a travel nurse RN for a Progressive Care Unit (PCU) position in Lynchburg, Virginia. The assignment starts October 12, 2026 and lasts 20 weeks, with 48 hours per week on 12‑hour night shifts. Employment type is travel.

    Responsibilities

    • Provide basic bedside care; stabilize critical cardiac patients.
    • Change dressings, insert catheters and start IVs.
    • Prepare, administer and record prescribed medication, reporting any adverse reactions to treatment.
    • Monitor and adjust specialized equipment used on patients, and interpret and record electronic displays.
    • Initiate corrective action whenever information from monitoring equipment shows adverse symptomatology.

    Requirements

    • Active RN license (implied by discipline)
    • ACLS certification
    • BLS certification
    • Minimum 1‑2 years recent acute care experience (posting says 1‑2 years recent acute care experience)
    • Additional certifications may be required before beginning an assignment.
    But we need to preserve all substantive information: The posting says "The right RN should have 1-2 years recent acute care experience." Also "Requirements*: ACLS, BLS, 2 Years * Additional certifications may be required before beginning an assignment." So we should include that exactly: ACLS, BLS, 2 Years (experience). We'll phrase as "ACLS, BLS, and at least 2 years of recent acute care experience." Also mention additional certifications may be required. We also have physical demands: stand/walk long periods, bend/lean/stoop, lift 20 lbs, up to 50 lbs patient lift, coping with stress, relate to all ages/backgrounds. Those could be under Skills or Requirements. Since they are not certifications, maybe Skills section. We have Benefits list. Schedule: 12 hour shifts, nights; 48 hours per week. We need to avoid placeholder Pay. So omit Pay. We need to avoid empty sections. Let's decide sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills, Benefits, Schedule. Check each for real content. About the role: we have location, start date, duration, hours, shift, employment type. Good. Responsibilities: tasks list. Requirements: certifications and experience. Skills: physical demands, stress coping, relating to people. Benefits: list. Schedule: shift and hours. Now ensure we don't repeat info. For example, we mentioned shift in About the role and also Schedule; that's okay but could be duplicate. Might be better to put shift/hours only in Schedule and not repeat in About the role. But About the role already mentioned shift/hours; we could keep it brief without shift/hours. Let's adjust About the role to exclude shift/hours, just location, start date, duration, employment type. Then Schedule will have shift/hours. Thus: About the role: location Lynchburg, VA; start date 10/12/2026; duration 20 weeks; employment type travel. Now schedule: 12‑hour night shifts, 48 hours per week. Now responsibilities as above. Requirements: ACLS, BLS, 2 years recent acute care experience; additional certifications may be required. Skills: ability to stand/walk long periods, bend/lean/stoop, lift 20 lbs, lift up to 50 lbs for patient handling, cope with stress, relate to people of all ages/backgrounds. Benefits list. Now ensure we use
    • for any list. For Benefits we have a list; we can make
        . Now check for any other substantive info: The posting mentions "Progressive Care Unit RNs will utilize computer equipment to monitor cardiac and other vital information..." That's part of responsibilities; we covered tasks but maybe we missed that specific duty. The tasks list includes monitoring equipment; we have "Monitor and adjust specialized equipment used on patients, and interpret and record electronic displays." That covers. Also "Close observation is necessary as many PCU patients receive a significant amount of complex medications, sometimes through an intravenous line that may need to be adjusted or titrated." That's covered by medication administration and IV tasks. Also "The PCU RN is sometimes also called a step-down nurse, and the PCU is also known as cardiac stepdown, medical stepdown, neuro stepdown, surgical stepdown and ER holding." That's descriptive; could be included in About the role as extra detail. We'll add a sentence. Also "As a PCU Travel Nurse, you should be prepared to perform the following tasks:" then list. Already captured. Now ensure we didn't miss any requirement: "Requirements*: ACLS, BLS, 2 Years * Additional certifications may be required before beginning an assignment." Good. Now ensure we didn't include any boilerplate: No EEO etc. Now produce HTML fragment. Let's craft:

        About the role

        TotalMed RN is seeking a travel nurse RN for a Progressive Care Unit (PCU) position in Lynchburg, Virginia. The assignment starts October 12, 2026 and lasts 20 weeks. Employment type is travel. The PCU, also known as a step‑down unit (cardiac, medical, neuro, surgical, or ER holding), cares for patients who need close monitoring but are not unstable enough for ICU care.

        Responsibilities

        • Provide basic bedside care; stabilize critical cardiac patients.
        • Change dressings, insert catheters and start IVs.
        • Prepare, administer and record prescribed medication, reporting any adverse reactions to treatment.
        • Monitor and adjust specialized equipment used on patients, and interpret and record electronic displays.
        • Initiate corrective action whenever information from monitoring equipment shows adverse symptomatology.

        Requirements

        • ACLS certification
        • BLS certification
        • At least 2 years of recent acute care experience (1‑2 years preferred)
        • Additional certifications may be required before beginning an assignment.

        Skills

        • Able to stand and walk for long periods; bend, lean, and stoop without difficulty.
        • Capable of lifting 20 pounds routinely, with patient handling requiring up to 50 pounds at times.
        • Good stress‑coping skills in a fast‑paced environment.
        • Ability to relate to patients of all ages

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