Job Summary
Registered Nurse, Step Down Unit — Baltimore, Maryland. This 13-week position provides care for pediatric and adolescent patients in a mixed rehabilitation and step-down setting. The role supports patients with complex medical and surgical conditions, including traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, burns, feeding disorders, failure to thrive, spina bifida, cerebral palsy, and post-operative needs.
Job Details
- Schedule: Rotating day and night shifts, 12-hour shifts, 36 hours per week.
- Required Qualifications:
- Minimum of 2 years of experience as a Registered Nurse, including pediatric, pediatric medical-surgical, pediatric step-down, or pediatric rehabilitation experience.
- Active Maryland or compact Registered Nurse license.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
- Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) certification.
- Experience with tracheostomy and ventilator management.
- Experience with central line and implanted line care, feedings, infection prevention, isolation precautions and personal protective equipment, nasogastric tube management, oral and nasal suctioning, oxygen delivery systems, peripheral line care, spinal cord injury care, intravenous insertion and maintenance, wound assessment and care.
- Preferred Qualifications: Prior electronic charting experience preferred.
- Additional Information:
- Patient population includes pediatric and adolescent patients.
- Typical nurse-to-patient ratio is 1:4 on days, nights, and weekends.
- Patient care may include traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, gunshot wounds, motor vehicle accidents, burns, feeding disorders, failure to thrive, spina bifida, cerebral palsy, post-orthopedic surgical care, and respiratory or cardiac conditions requiring tracheostomy and ventilator management.
- Interdisciplinary support includes physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, respiratory services, interpretation services, phlebotomy, radiology, pharmacy, and unit support staff.
- Every other weekend and scheduled holiday coverage is required.
- On-call coverage is not required.
- Scrubs may be any color or pattern.
- First-time travelers are accepted.
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
