Job Summary
Registered Nurse, Medical Surgical With Telemetry, High Point, NC. The position provides comprehensive care to adult medical-surgical patients with telemetry monitoring needs, including postoperative patients and those with cardiac, respiratory, renal, gastrointestinal, infectious, and wound-related conditions. The assignment requires strong clinical skills, including intravenous therapy, wound care, chest tube management, and continuous bladder irrigation.
Job Details
- Schedule: Day shift, 12-hour shifts, with a minimum of 36 hours per week. Assignment dates are 11/23/2026 through 02/20/2027.
- Required Qualifications: Registered Nurse licensure; Basic Life Support (BLS) certification; a minimum of 1 year of experience; demonstrated competency in general medical-surgical patient care, intravenous start and maintenance, urinary catheter start and maintenance, nasogastric tube start and maintenance, chest tube care, wound care and dressing changes, wound vacuum-assisted therapy, drains, heparin infusions, and continuous bladder irrigation.
- Additional Information: The position supports approximately 33 patients per day on a 36-bed unit, with typical nurse-to-patient ratios of 1:6. Patient populations include individuals with congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, kidney, liver, gastrointestinal, respiratory, infectious, and wound-related conditions, as well as postoperative bariatric, hip, trauma-surgical, and traction patients. Available support includes certified nursing assistants, charge nurses, phlebotomy, respiratory therapy, hospitalists, intensivists, and telemetry monitoring technicians. Departmental orientation and facility orientation are provided. Royal blue scrubs are required.
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
