Job Summary
Progressive Care Unit position supporting a float pool across progressive care, telemetry, medical-surgical, and emergency department holding areas. The role provides care for patients with cardiac, neurological, trauma, respiratory, medical, and surgical conditions while requiring flexibility to float within the scope of practice. Strong progressive care or telemetry experience is expected, and first-time travelers may be considered with previous float pool experience.
Job Details
- Schedule: Day and night shifts are available from 7:00 AM–7:30 PM or 7:00 PM–7:30 AM. The schedule consists of 12-hour shifts with a minimum of 36 hours per week.
- Required Qualifications:
- Minimum of 1 year of experience
- Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), and National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certifications
- Progressive care, telemetry, or comparable acute-care experience
- Ability to float within the scope of practice across progressive care, telemetry, medical-surgical, and emergency department holding areas
- Competency in intravenous medication titration, cardiac rhythm interpretation, bilevel positive airway pressure management, ostomy care, drains, tracheostomy care, chest tubes, and lumbar drains
- Electronic medical record experience
- Preferred Qualifications:
- Previous float pool experience
- Experience with transradial band management
- Experience caring for post-cardiac surgery, post-catheterization, cardiac observation, myocardial infarction, pacemaker, ablation, and vascular surgery patients
- Float: Float rotation may be required.
- Additional Information:
- The emergency department holding area is expected to be the primary work area, with additional assignments in inpatient progressive care and other applicable units.
- Typical patient ratios are 1:4 in progressive care and 1:5–6 in medical-surgical areas.
- Patient populations may include neurological, trauma, medical, surgical, respiratory, cardiac, renal, orthopedic, and sepsis cases.
- Orientation includes general orientation, progressive care unit orientation, and additional unit orientation.
- Weekend rotation is every other weekend, with occasional consecutive weekends.
- Holiday participation may be required.
- No on-call responsibility is required.
- Staff are expected to complete and document hourly rounding, provide bedside report, maintain whiteboards, and follow medication security and waste-verification procedures.
- Saline flushes are treated as medications and must not be left unattended.
- Pain assessment is required before and after pain medication administration.
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
