Job Summary
Registered Nurse, Emergency Room. The position provides emergency nursing care to adult and pediatric patients across a range of acuity levels, including patients requiring advanced interventions and stabilization. The role includes collaboration with interdisciplinary support services and participation in every-other-weekend coverage.
Job Details
- Schedule: Night shifts, 12 hours per shift, with a minimum of 48 hours per week; every-other-weekend coverage required.
- Required Qualifications: Minimum of 1 year of emergency nursing experience; current New York nursing license in hand; Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), and National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certifications; competency in phlebotomy and intravenous (IV) placement.
- Preferred Qualifications: Experience with Epic charting preferred.
- Float: Float rotation may be required.
- Additional Information: Provides care for neonates, infants, adolescents, adults, pediatrics, and geriatric patients. Required clinical competencies include combined adult and pediatric emergency care, dysrhythmia interpretation and management, multisystem organ dysfunction and failure management, blood product administration, central line care and management, continuous IV paralytics and sedation, emergency medications, IV vasopressors, procedural sedation administration and monitoring, cerebrovascular accident (CVA) care, isolation precautions, BiPAP/CPAP management, psychiatric holds, suicidal patient care, splint application, 12-lead electrocardiogram acquisition, and management of drug overdose cases. Patient ratios are approximately 1:5.
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
