Job description
RN - Acute Care Unit
Start Date: 12-07-2026
End Date: 03-08-2027
Contract Type: Travel Contract
Hours per Week: 36
Candidate Pay Rate: $65.10 per hour
About United Health Care Staffing
At United Health Care Staffing (UHC Staffing), we believe healthcare staffing should be more than just finding a job. We are here to connect amazing professionals with opportunities that make their careers exciting, rewarding, and meaningful. With us, you're not just signing up for a contract you are joining a team that's got your back, answers your calls, and maybe even cracks a joke or two to brighten your day. Think of us as the travel buddy who handles the logistics while you focus on what you do best helping people heal.
Education
- Charting System: Cerner
- Unit Notes: - Unit: ACU - Combo of Telemetry, medsurg, and DOU
- # beds: 50 beds
- Certs: ACLS, BLS, NIHSS
- Ratios: 1 to 5 medsurg, 1 to 4 tele, 1 to 3 for DOU
- EMR: Cerner
- Charge Nurse: Yes
- Nurse Aides: depends on census
- Weekend Requirement: every other
- Holidays: one major and one minor
- Scrub Color: navy
- Tele Monitors: phillips - they do have a monitor tech, NURSES MUST BE ABLE TO READ STRIPS
- Do nurses read strips: yes
- Drips: yes - cardizem, amoidarone (non-titrating)
- Vents: yes - bipap or cpap, DOU will sometime get chronic vents, travelers will not work DOU
- Hospitalist or Intensivist in house: Yes - on call after hours, hospitalist is shared between SJRMC and SJPVH
- IV Team: No
- RT 24/7: yes
- Pharmacy 24/7: yes
- Shifts: 12 hr shifts, 6:45am-6:45pm, 6:45pm-6:45am, self scheduling but not guaranteed
- Floating: ACU will float between medsurg and tele
- Floor specific orientation: one shift at each facility
- Common diagnosis / Types of patients: post surgical, ortho, cardiac
- Years of Experience: 2
- Shift Notes: 7p-7a, EOW first to float
- Specialty: ACU (Acute Care unit)
- Start Date: 2026-12-07
- End Date: 2027-03-08
- Created Date: 2026-11-10
- Required Hours/Week: 36
- Start Time: 06:45
- End Time: 18:45
- Positions: 3
- Short Description: RN (Registered Nurse)
- Contract Type:
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Ready to start your next adventure as a RN - Acute Care Unit? Let's get you moving forward!
Send your resume to [email protected] or call us at 408-441-9200 today.
Why UHCS
Weekly or bi-weekly pay, medical/dental/vision, a SIMPLE IRA with employer contribution, tests paid on qualifying assignments with payroll deduction available, and one recruiter who stays with you for the whole assignment — reachable after hours. Every placement is credentialed to Joint Commission standards, so your packet is accepted the first time.