Job Summary
Registered Nurse, Progressive Care Unit — Night-shift travel assignment. The role provides care for adult and geriatric patients with complex cardiac, vascular, telemetry, and post-operative needs. The assignment requires strong surgical telemetry experience, flexibility to float to like units, and proficiency with the designated electronic health record system.
Job Details
- Schedule: Night shift, 12-hour shifts, 48 hours per week; every other weekend required. The assignment is scheduled from 11/30/2026 through 03/01/2027.
- Required Qualifications: Registered Nurse with at least 2 years of telemetry experience, including surgical telemetry, open-heart surgery, vascular surgery, radial band management, intravenous skills, and post-operative cardiac care; travel experience required; active compact nursing license in hand at submission; Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), Basic Life Support (BLS), and National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certifications required; electronic health record experience required, with Epic experience being mandatory.
- Preferred Qualifications: Community hospital experience preferred. Experience with ventricular assist devices (VAD) and transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) preferred.
- Float: Float rotation may be required.
- Additional Information:
- Provides care for patients with myocardial infarction, primary arrhythmias, coronary artery disease, heart failure, vascular conditions, stroke with cardiac involvement, and pre- and post-cardiac catheterization needs.
- Manages patients following open-heart surgery, including patients within the first 1–5 days postoperatively who may have chest tubes and sternal precautions.
- Performs telemetry and dysrhythmia interpretation and management, cardioversion and defibrillation, epicardial pacer management, chest tube care, blood and blood product administration, and noninvasive airway support.
- Supports cardiac drips, heparin protocols, intravenous therapies, wound care, surgical drains, central lines, peripherally inserted central catheters, and vascular access devices.
- Typical patient assignment is 4:1, with higher-acuity and special-procedure assignments of 3:1; assignments may increase to 5:1 at midnight.
- Holiday scheduling requires commitment to working 3 of 5 designated holidays.
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
