Job Summary
Registered Nurse, Intermediate Care Unit, Madison, Wisconsin. This position provides care for adult and geriatric patients in acute medical, progressive care, and thoracic surgery settings. The assignment includes night shifts, thoracic and cardiac patient care, telemetry monitoring, and collaboration with interdisciplinary teams from 12/14/2026 through 03/22/2027.
Job Details
- Schedule: Night shifts from 7:00 PM to 7:30 AM, consisting of 12-hour shifts and 48 hours per week; every other weekend and some holidays are required.
- Required Qualifications: Registered Nurse license in Wisconsin or a compact-state license; Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) and Basic Life Support (BLS) certifications through the American Heart Association (AHA); two years of acute care experience within the last three years in the submitted specialty; experience in telemetry, oncology, cardiac care, and progressive care; intermediate care, intensive care, and surgical postoperative experience; transplant experience; electronic charting system experience; and the ability to care for a patient ratio of approximately three patients to one nurse.
- Preferred Qualifications: Thoracic nursing experience; experience with arterial line management and ventilated patients; trauma level I experience; and experience caring for patients undergoing esophagectomies, lung volume reduction surgery, wedge resections, and cardiac surgery stepdown care.
- Additional Information:
- Care is provided for patients with lung and esophageal diseases, lobectomies, decortications, esophagectomies, thoracic procedures, cardiac surgery recovery needs, and hospitalist-managed conditions.
- Responsibilities include chest tube care, central line management, blood product administration, dysrhythmia interpretation and management, oxygen therapy, wound care, surgical drain management, and telemetry monitoring.
- The role includes participation in procedures such as chest tube insertion and requires collaboration with respiratory services, physical therapy, pharmacy, radiology, social services, rapid response teams, and other interdisciplinary support services.
- A telemetry examination must be passed before the start of the assignment, with specified passing criteria for adult and pediatric rhythm interpretation.
- The position requires floating between acute medical, progressive care, and thoracic units as operational needs require.
- Travelers must be willing to care for intermediate care or general care patients when assigned from an intensive care setting.
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
