Job Summary
Registered Nurse, Medical-Surgical With Telemetry. This travel assignment provides care for adult and geriatric patients in a medical-surgical and telemetry setting. The role includes interdisciplinary collaboration, clinical monitoring, patient education, and the ability to float between units and affiliated facilities based on operational needs.
Job Details
- Schedule: Nights; 12-hour shifts; 36 hours per week. Weekend coverage is required at least every other weekend.
- Required Qualifications: At least 1 year of recent Registered Nurse experience; Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) and Basic Life Support (BLS) certifications; compact nursing license in hand at submission; experience caring for medical-surgical and telemetry patients; proficiency with computerized clinical documentation; ability to manage patient ratios of approximately 1:4–6.
- Preferred Qualifications: Community hospital, long-term acute care, or Level I or Level II trauma experience.
- Float: Float rotation may be required.
- Additional Information:
- Care includes adult and geriatric patients with medical-surgical, telemetry, orthopedic, surgical, wound, and infectious conditions.
- Clinical responsibilities may include dysrhythmia interpretation and management, oxygen therapy, noninvasive airway support, central and peripheral line care, blood product administration, feeding tube care, chest tube management, wound care, wound vacuum care, intravenous therapy, isolation precautions, and rapid response activation.
- On-call or standby assignments may be required based on census.
- The assignment requires work on three of five designated holidays.
- A 12-hour orientation is provided.
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
