Job Summary
Registered Nurse, Emergency Room, Charlotte, NC. This position provides emergency care to pediatric through geriatric patients with a broad range of medical, behavioral health, cardiac, neurologic, respiratory, and trauma-related conditions. The role requires strong emergency department skills, critical care drip experience, and the ability to support a busy clinical environment.
Job Details
- Schedule: Nights, 12-hour shifts, 36 hours per week.
- Required Qualifications:
- Active Registered Nurse licensure.
- Minimum of 2 years of emergency department experience.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certification.
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification.
- National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certification.
- Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) certification.
- General emergency department skills, including cardiac rhythm interpretation, critical care drip management, peripheral intravenous starts, thrombolytic medication administration, and conscious sedation.
- Preferred Qualifications:
- Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC) certification.
- Float: Float rotation may be required.
- Additional Information:
- Provides care for pediatric through geriatric patients.
- Patient populations may include respiratory illness, stroke, behavioral health conditions, acute myocardial infarction, uncontrolled diabetes, minor trauma, and patients requiring trauma stabilization.
- Typical nurse-to-patient ratios range from 1:3 to 1:4 based on acuity.
- The role supports an average daily emergency department census of approximately 145 patients.
- Collaboration includes physicians, advanced practice providers, hospitalists, intensivists, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, social workers, paramedics, and patient safety attendants.
- Departmental orientation is provided.
- Navy blue scrubs are required.
Benefits
The benefits of taking a travel assignment with Cross Country include:
- Private housing or generous housing allowance
- Comprehensive health insurance with prescription coverage
- Dependent health insurance with prescription coverage
- Competitive salaries
- Referral bonuses
- Travel reimbursement
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Direct deposit/free checking
- Unlimited free CE credits
