Step-down nurses provide patient care in transitional units where patients are too sick for the med-surg floor but not sick enough for intensive care. Their comprehensive medical and nursing knowledge is supplemented by technical familiarity with advanced telemetry equipment, competence with emergent situations.
Requirements:
BLS
ACLS
Minimum 2 years’ experience
Arterial line management, central line management, chest tube management
Drip management to include but no limited to –Lasix, insulin, dobutamine, insulin