Description
Slate Healthcare is seeking a travel nurse RN PCU - Progressive Care Unit for a travel nursing job in Thornton, Colorado.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: PCU - Progressive Care Unit
- Discipline: RN
- Start Date: 09/13/2026
- Duration: 13 weeks
- 36 hours per week
- Shift: 12 hours
- Employment Type: Travel
Travel RN – PCU
Location: Thornton, CO
Weekly Gross Pay: $2,100
Shift: Nights | 7:00 PM – 7:00 AM
Start Date: Available for immediate consideration
Contract: Travel Assignment
Positions Available: 2
Position Details
- Profession: Registered Nurse
- Specialty: Progressive Care Unit (PCU)
- Unit: PCU – 2 North
- Facility Type: Acute Care Hospital
- Patient Ratio: 5:1
- Number of Beds: 24
- EMR: Meditech / CPN
- Schedule: 7:00 PM – 7:00 AM
- Shift: Nights
Required Experience & Certifications
- Minimum 1 year of current acute care hospital PCU experience
- BLS
- ACLS
- NIH certification
Candidates without the required PCU experience and certifications will not be considered.
Preferred Experience
- Cardiac experience
- Previous Meditech experience
Unit & Patient Population
This is a progressive care unit caring for a diverse patient population, including:
- Elective orthopedic procedures
- Spine and joint surgeries
- GYN surgeries
- Post-operative surgical patients
- Post-cath lab patients
- Post-PCI patients
- Post-pacemaker patients
- Ablation and cardioversion patients
- Revascularization patients
- Stroke patients
- Chest pain
- Renal failure
- Respiratory failure
- CIWA patients
- Cardiac drips, including non-titrating drips and heparin
Equipment & Clinical Environment
- Telemetry monitoring
- Post-operative monitoring
- Cardiac monitoring
- State-of-the-art unit
- ADA/Bariatric rooms
- In-room Hoyer lifts
Unit Culture & Scheduling
- Excellent teamwork and collaboration
- Friendly and outgoing team environment
- Wide range of nursing experience among staff
- Modified self-scheduling process
- Schedules posted approximately 3 weeks in advance
- Flexible scheduling allows time to arrange shift trades when needed
Why Apply?
Join a newly built, state-of-the-art PCU with a strong team culture and a diverse patient population. This assignment provides travel nurses with exposure to progressive care, cardiac, post-operative, neurological, renal, and respiratory patients while working alongside an experienced and collaborative nursing team.
Apply today for this Travel PCU RN opportunity in Thornton, Colorado.
About Slate Healthcare
Slate Healthcare is a premier travel healthcare staffing agency, connecting healthcare professionals with thousands of opportunities at top-tier hospitals and facilities across the country.
We're committed to supporting nurses and allied health professionals in building stable, fulfilling careers—while embracing the freedom and excitement that comes with travel. Our goal is simple: to offer flexibility, competitive pay, and personalized placements that align with each clinician's lifestyle and career goals.
At Slate, we empower our professionals to choose when and where they work, while ensuring they receive the highest compensation possible—because we believe that exceptional care starts with empowered caregivers.
