Job Summary
Registered Nurse, Medical Surgical Neurology Floor. The Clinical Nurse provides safe, competent, patient-centered care to individuals requiring neurological and neurosurgical services. Responsibilities include care planning, patient and caregiver education, interdisciplinary collaboration, quality and safety practices, clinical documentation, and participation in professional development initiatives.
Job Details
- Schedule: Day shifts, 7.5 hours per shift, 37.5 hours per week.
- Required Qualifications:
- New York State Registered Nurse (RN) license.
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN).
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certification.
- Minimum of 2 years of direct experience in an intensive care unit (ICU), medical-surgical, or neurosurgical setting.
- Neuro-surgery outpatient experience required.
- Preferred Qualifications:
- Electronic health record experience using EPIC.
- Ambulatory surgery experience.
- Additional Information:
- Provides comprehensive nursing care using the nursing process, evidence-based practice, and approved professional standards.
- Assesses patient needs, applies critical-thinking skills, and develops, implements, and evaluates individualized plans of care.
- Educates patients and caregivers regarding treatment plans, transitions of care, health promotion, and disease prevention.
- Collaborates with interdisciplinary healthcare teams to support patient-centered care and care coordination.
- Performs patient rounding, medication review, discharge education, and service recovery activities.
- Identifies safety risks, escalates care concerns, and contributes to quality-improvement initiatives.
- Maintains accurate nursing documentation in accordance with regulatory, legal, and professional standards.
- Supports patient throughput, resource allocation, shared decision-making, nursing research, and ongoing professional development.
- Start date: 01/04/2027.
- Assignment end date: 04/03/2027.
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
