Start Date: 11-02-2026

End Date: 02-01-2027

Contract Type: Travel Contract

Hours per Week: 36

Candidate Pay Rate: $65.33 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

• Common diagnoses/Types of patients TAVR, Post Caths- TR bands and fem stops, Temporary/ transvenous pacemakers, VATS, lobectomies, POD 2-5 CABG, Thoracic- fem pops, etc.
• Experience or 'Must have' skills Minimum of 2 years experience in PCU
• handling of stable Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts (CABG) patients
• Are RNs required to titrate drips? Yes
• Common titratable &/or set rate drips nitroglycerin, heparin, cardizem, nicardipine, amiodarone, insulin, dopamine, esmolol, labetolol, milrinone, argatroban,
• Charge Nurse/House Supervisor Yes, charge nurse
• Are there nurse aids on this unit/Ratios CNAs 1: 8 ratio. May be pulled for 1:1 sitters. 1:12 at nights.
• Hospitalist or Intensivist in house MD availabiltiy should be hospitalist not intensivist. Pharmacy Availability will change and the house pharmacist will be available
• RT in ICU 24/7 RT dedicated to unit
• RT Equipment (vents, Cpap, Bi Pap, etc) All, CPAP, Bi PAP,
• Is there tele on this unit? Monitor Techs? RNs read strips? Yes. Offsite central monitoring. Nurses are required to watch the monitors and measure and interpret their own strips.
• Shifts & Scheduling 07-1930 1900-0730. 6 weeks at a time. Will be here to fill holes/needs.
• Weekend Requirement EOW weekend at minimum, Sat, Sun, Mon have high needs.
• Holiday Requirement at least 1 major holiday during the holiday season
• Is there a call or standby requirement? No
• Floating Requirements Within Skill set, traveler may float to 4th floor but take a PCU load
• Scrub Color/Dress Code Any professional color scrubs.
• Unit/Department specific orientation Can test out of Epic if experienced within the last year. (EPIC experience preferred). 8 hour Epic class in Tacoma in a centralized education department along with an 8 hour onboarding and education day, tours etc and then 1 Shift with a preceptor. 1
• Additional Notes
• Additional Questions Looking for candidate with a flexible, team player mentality.
• Cost Center: 3405-107
• Notes Updated: Rob Johnson -- Reporting Manager (2/5/26) -- Laura Kendall (AM 2/5/26)
• Specialty: Cardiac PCU 5th Floor