Job Summary:
Step Down Unit Registered Nurse (RN) position available in a medical/telemetry setting within a healthcare facility. This role involves providing care to adult and geriatrics patients, with a focus on cardiac monitoring, cardiac caths, EP studies, pacemakers, and patients with acute or chronic conditions such as pneumonia, COVID-19, and sepsis. The nurse will work in a fast-paced environment, interpreting cardiac strips, managing titratable drips, and collaborating with charge nurses and patient care technicians.
Job Details:
- Schedule: 12-hour shifts covering days and nights, with a minimum of 36 hours per week.
- Certifications & Qualifications: ACLS, BLS certifications required; valid license to submit.
- Experience: 2 years of clinical experience as a registered nurse, including tele/ cardiac and step down unit experience.
- Shift Timing: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. or 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., with possible rotation on a weekly basis.
- Practice acts: RN to titrate and manage familiar titratable and set rate drips such as Amiodarone, Cardizem, Heparin, Nitro, Nipride, Lasix, low dose Dopamine; L-ve is not included.
- Patient Care: Nurse to interpret cardiac rhythms, read strips, and manage patient care with a patient-to-nurse ratio of 1:4-5 on day shifts and 1:5-6 on nights, with occasional overflow care.
- Responsibilities: Managing ventilators (Vents, Cpap, BiPap, High Flow), troubleshooting Bipap, trachs, and airvo devices.
- Support Staff: Nurse aides/patient care technicians present, with a goal of a 1:10 nurse-to-patient ratio.
- Equipment & Monitors: Portable telemetry monitors and bedside monitors with tech support at the nurses' station.
- Float: All areas available for help, including full patient loads in the PCU and Medical-Surgical units, with some ER holds/boarding.
- Orientation: Two 12-hour shifts scheduled on consecutive days during the first week, with independent work afterward.
- Additional Notes: Candidates should be within a 50-mile radius and not be affiliated full-time, part-time, or PRN with any facility associated with the organization. RTO request of 7 days or less needed upfront; additional RTOs not approved.
- Start Date: 11/02/2026 to 02/01/2027.
- Trauma Level: 2.
- Charting System: EPIC.
- Shift Notes: Evening, day, and float shifts available.
- Common Certifications: ACLS, BLS.
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
