Job Summary
Registered Nurse, Medical-Surgical Floor. The role provides nursing care for adult medical-surgical patients with conditions including congestive heart failure, diabetic complications, pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations, fractures, and postoperative needs. The position includes collaboration with the healthcare team, telemetry monitoring, and care for patients requiring respiratory support such as continuous positive airway pressure, bilevel positive airway pressure, and high-flow oxygen.
Job Details
- Schedule: Night shifts from 7:00 PM to 7:30 AM, 12-hour shifts, 36 hours per week; every other weekend is required, and holiday scheduling is negotiable.
- Required Qualifications: Minimum of 2 years of medical-surgical nursing experience; Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certifications; valid professional nursing license required at submission.
- Additional Information:
- Patient assignments are generally 4–5 patients per Registered Nurse during the day and up to 5 patients per Registered Nurse at night.
- Common clinical needs include care for medical-surgical, postoperative, pediatric, orthopedic, cardiac, respiratory, and diabetic patients.
- Registered Nurses may infrequently titrate heparin and Bumex infusions.
- Respiratory equipment includes continuous positive airway pressure, bilevel positive airway pressure, and high-flow oxygen.
- Telemetry is monitored by critical care staff, with telemetry visibility available to the medical-surgical team.
- A charge nurse or house supervisor is available on both day and night shifts.
- Unit orientation typically includes 3–6 shifts and may be extended as needed.
- Navy blue scrubs are required.
- If placed on low census, staff may be expected to report within 30 minutes of notification.
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
