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Progressive Care Unit Travel Nursing Jobs in Opelousas, LA for RNs

Find Top RN Progressive Care Unit Travel Nursing Jobs in Opelousas, Louisiana

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Registered Nurse – Progressive Care
  • Dallas, Texas – 75230
    Distance from Opelousas: 318 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 28, 2025
  • 13
$1,448 to $1,596
Weekly Pay*
This outstanding Progressive Care Unit (PCU) is looking for the right RN to join their team of compassionate and driven health care professionals. Join this highly motivated team of caregivers and enjoy a challenging and welcoming environment based on optimal patient care.
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Registered Nurse – Progressive Care
  • Plano, Texas – 75075
    Distance from Opelousas: 321 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 28, 2025
  • 13
$1,344 to $1,481
Weekly Pay*
Neuro Stepdown unit 500+ bed Level 1 Trauma center, Magnet facility, and teaching hospital located in a suburb of Dallas.
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Registered Nurse – Progressive Care
  • Austin, Texas – 78758
    Distance from Opelousas: 338 miles
  • 12 D,
  • July 28, 2025
  • 13
$1,462 to $1,611
Weekly Pay*
IMC / Stepdown RN needed for 375 bed Level 2 Trauma center. 32 bed unit with 1:4 staffing. Unit sees Pre and Post-operative care, Drip titration and Non-titration drips The campus is home to the St. David’s Women’s Center of Texas, Texas Institute for Robotic Surgery, is a Certified Stroke Center, and a Kidney Transplant Center. Enjoy legendary live music, burgeoning restaurant scene, unique culture, and a vibrant, welcoming community that you just have to experience for yourself to truly understand what makes Austin so Austin.
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Registered Nurse – Progressive Care
  • Alabaster, Alabama – 35007
    Distance from Opelousas: 361 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 14, 2025
  • 13
$2,053 to $2,791
Weekly Pay*
Common Diagnosis/Treatment: Pneumonia # of Beds: 20 Nurse Patient Ratio: 1-4 Charting: Epic Scrub Color: Navy blue Areas of Float Support: Floatpool, like units Special Procedures: 0
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Registered Nurse – Progressive Care
  • Alabaster, Alabama – 35007
    Distance from Opelousas: 361 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 28, 2025
  • 13
$1,957 to $2,156
Weekly Pay*
Common Diagnosis/Treatment: Pneumonia # of Beds: 20 Nurse Patient Ratio: 1-4 Charting: Epic Scrub Color: Navy blue Areas of Float Support: Floatpool, like units Special Procedures: 0
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Registered Nurse – Progressive Care
  • Alabaster, Alabama – 35007
    Distance from Opelousas: 361 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 28, 2025
  • 14
$1,957 to $2,156
Weekly Pay*
Common Diagnosis/Treatment: Heart disease # of Beds: 14 Nurse Patient Ratio: 1-4 Charting: Epic Scrub Color: Navy blue Areas of Float Support: Floatpool, like units Special Procedures: 0
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Registered Nurse – Progressive Care
  • Birmingham, Alabama – 35211
    Distance from Opelousas: 372 miles
  • 12 N,
  • August 4, 2025
  • 13
$2,048 to $2,783
Weekly Pay*
Common Diagnosis/Treatment: Coronary Artery Disease/ CABG/ dysrhythmia # of Beds: 42 Nurse Patient Ratio: 1-4 Charting: Epic Scrub Color: Navy blue Areas of Float Support: 3North- Cardiac Short stay; Chest pain observation unit Special Procedures: Cardiac Cath/ Open Heart Surgery/ Ablation/ ICD
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Registered Nurse – Progressive Care
  • Birmingham, Alabama – 35211
    Distance from Opelousas: 372 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 21, 2025
  • 13
$2,048 to $2,783
Weekly Pay*
Common Diagnosis/Treatment: Coronary Artery Disease/ CABG/ dysrhythmia # of Beds: 42 Nurse Patient Ratio: 1-4 Charting: Epic Scrub Color: Navy blue Areas of Float Support: 3North- Cardiac Short stay; Chest pain observation unit Special Procedures: Cardiac Cath/ Open Heart Surgery/ Ablation/ ICD
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Registered Nurse – Progressive Care
  • Birmingham, Alabama – 35211
    Distance from Opelousas: 372 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 14, 2025
  • 13
$1,957 to $2,157
Weekly Pay*
Common Diagnosis/Treatment: Coronary Artery Disease/ CABG/ dysrhythmia # of Beds: 42 Nurse Patient Ratio: 1-4 Charting: Epic Scrub Color: Navy blue Areas of Float Support: 3North- Cardiac Short stay; Chest pain observation unit Special Procedures: Cardiac Cath/ Open Heart Surgery/ Ablation/ ICD
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Registered Nurse – Progressive Care
  • Birmingham, Alabama – 35211
    Distance from Opelousas: 372 miles
  • 12 D,
  • August 4, 2025
  • 13
$1,957 to $2,157
Weekly Pay*
Common Diagnosis/Treatment: Coronary Artery Disease/ CABG/ dysrhythmia # of Beds: 42 Nurse Patient Ratio: 1-4 Charting: Epic Scrub Color: Navy blue Areas of Float Support: 3North- Cardiac Short stay; Chest pain observation unit Special Procedures: Cardiac Cath/ Open Heart Surgery/ Ablation/ ICD
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Registered Nurse – Progressive Care
  • Birmingham, Alabama – 35211
    Distance from Opelousas: 372 miles
  • 12 N,
  • August 4, 2025
  • 13
$1,957 to $2,157
Weekly Pay*
Common Diagnosis/Treatment: Coronary Artery Disease/ CABG/ dysrhythmia # of Beds: 42 Nurse Patient Ratio: 1-4 Charting: Epic Scrub Color: Navy blue Areas of Float Support: 3North- Cardiac Short stay; Chest pain observation unit Special Procedures: Cardiac Cath/ Open Heart Surgery/ Ablation/ ICD
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Registered Nurse – Progressive Care
  • Birmingham, Alabama – 35211
    Distance from Opelousas: 372 miles
  • 12 N,
  • August 4, 2025
  • 13
$1,957 to $2,157
Weekly Pay*
Common Diagnosis/Treatment: Coronary Artery Disease/ CABG/ dysrhythmia # of Beds: 42 Nurse Patient Ratio: 1-4 Charting: Epic Scrub Color: Navy blue Areas of Float Support: 3North- Cardiac Short stay; Chest pain observation unit Special Procedures: Cardiac Cath/ Open Heart Surgery/ Ablation/ ICD
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Registered Nurse – Progressive Care
  • Branson, Missouri – 65616
    Distance from Opelousas: 427 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 20, 2025
  • 13
$1,765 to $1,945
Weekly Pay*
Progressive Care Nurse will take care of patients post CVA, acute MI, in respiratory distress, in Afib RVR, and in DKA. Nurse to patient ratio is 1:4-5 as this Step Down Unit has 6 beds that take cardiac drips such as amiodarone and cardizem, insulin drips, and bipaps. The other 18 beds are for telemetry and post CVA patients requiring closer monitoring than available on Med/Surg floors. NIHSS is required. Floating to med/surg units required if census/staffing needs call for it. ICU experience also would allow floating to ICU.
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Registered Nurse – Progressive Care
  • Lawton, Oklahoma – 73505
    Distance from Opelousas: 463 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 28, 2025
  • 13
$1,826 to $2,013
Weekly Pay*
CVCU is a specialized critical care unit that is a combination ICU/PCU. All open heart, thoracic and vascular surgeries come to CVCU and we help in the recovery of the open heart patients in the unit.
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Registered Nurse – Progressive Care
  • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – 73104
    Distance from Opelousas: 464 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 28, 2025
  • 34
$2,012 to $2,217
Weekly Pay*
Level 1 Trauma Center Teaching Hospital
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Registered Nurse – Progressive Care
  • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – 73104
    Distance from Opelousas: 464 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 14, 2025
  • 12
$2,012 to $2,217
Weekly Pay*
Level 1 Trauma Center Teaching Hospital
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Registered Nurse – Progressive Care
  • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – 73104
    Distance from Opelousas: 464 miles
  • 12 D,
  • July 14, 2025
  • 12
$2,012 to $2,217
Weekly Pay*
Level 1 Trauma Center Teaching Hospital
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Registered Nurse – Progressive Care
  • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – 73104
    Distance from Opelousas: 464 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 14, 2025
  • 24
$2,012 to $2,217
Weekly Pay*
Level 1 Trauma Center Teaching Hospital
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travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Progressive Care
  • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – 73104
    Distance from Opelousas: 464 miles
  • 12 D,
  • July 14, 2025
  • 12
$2,012 to $2,217
Weekly Pay*
Level 1 Trauma Center Teaching Hospital
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travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Progressive Care
  • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – 73104
    Distance from Opelousas: 464 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 28, 2025
  • 28
$2,012 to $2,217
Weekly Pay*
Level 1 Trauma Center Teaching Hospital
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travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Progressive Care
  • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – 73104
    Distance from Opelousas: 464 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 28, 2025
  • 13
$2,012 to $2,217
Weekly Pay*
Level 1 Trauma Center Teaching Hospital
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travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Progressive Care
  • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – 73104
    Distance from Opelousas: 464 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 28, 2025
  • 29
$2,012 to $2,217
Weekly Pay*
Level 1 Trauma Center Teaching Hospital
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travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Progressive Care
  • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – 73104
    Distance from Opelousas: 464 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 14, 2025
  • 14
$2,012 to $2,217
Weekly Pay*
Level 1 Trauma Center Teaching Hospital
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travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Progressive Care
  • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – 73104
    Distance from Opelousas: 464 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 14, 2025
  • 13
$2,012 to $2,217
Weekly Pay*
Level 1 Trauma Center Teaching Hospital
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Statistics on PCU RN Jobs in Opelousas, Louisiana

Here are some helpful statistics about PCU traveling nurse jobs in & near Opelousas. The data is based on the last three complete months of PCU job postings in the Opelousas and nearby areas. It is updated regularly, so you can find the most recent Progressive Care Unit job salary trends, the types of shifts, and contract durations most commonly available in Opelousas and more. Find out more about travel nursing salaries.

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FAQs About Travel PCU Nursing Jobs for RNs in Opelousas, LA

What types of shifts are most common for PCU travel jobs in Opelousas?

Based on the last 6 months of travel nurse jobs data, 12 Hour Night shifts were the most common in Opelousas and surrounding areas.

How much does a day shift Progressive Care Unit nurse make on average in Opelousas and nearby cities?

A: A 12 Hour Day shift Progressive Care Unit nurse in Opelousas can make an average of $1,631 per week based on recent job availability.

How much does a night shift Progressive Care Unit nurse make on average in Opelousas and nearby cities?

A: A 12 Hour Night shift Progressive Care Unit nurse in Opelousas can make an average of $1,608 per week based on recent job availability data.

What hospitals and healthcare facilities have Progressive Care Unit staff in or near Opelousas?

  • Opelousas General Health System in Opelousas
  • Natchez Community Hospital in Natchez (81.5 miles from Opelousas)

What is the most common contract for Progressive Care Unit travel jobs in Opelousas?

Based on recent data, the most common duration for a Progressive Care Unit job in Opelousas is 13 weeks.

Locating Progressive Care Unit Travel Nursing Jobs in Opelousas

In Opelousas, facilities like Opelousas General Health System, all offer PCU departments.

Other popular cities near Opelousas’s PCU job opportunities are Carencro (15.1 miles), Scott (20.6 miles) and Breaux Bridge (21 miles). These are near to zip codes: 39120 (81.5 miles).

Opelousas Hospitals With PCU Departments

There are 1 hospitals & healthcare facilities that have PCU nurses in Opelousas. Sometimes it is useful to see what types of shifts, contract durations, and travel nurse housing in nearby neighborhoods each facility might offer in order to find the right opportunity for your next traveling PCU nurse position in or nearby Opelousas.

Opelousas General Health System
Shifts
12 D, 12 E, and 12 N
Job Durations
6 wks, 8 wks, and 13 wks
Departments
Emergency Room RN, Intensive Care Unit RN, Labor & Delivery Registered Nurse, Level I Nursery, Operating Room RN, Operating Room Surgical Technology, Operation Room Nursing Surgical Technology, Post Anesthesia Care Unit, and Progressive Care Unit Registered Nurse
Address
539 E. PRUDHOMME ST.
Opelousas, LA 70570

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* Estimate of payments is intended for informational purposes and includes hourly wages, as well as reimbursements for meal & incidental expenses and housing expenses incurred on behalf of the Company. Please speak with a recruiter for additional details.