Job Summary
Registered Nurse, Step Down Unit, Long Beach, CA — The organization is seeking a Step Down Unit Registered Nurse to provide care for adult and geriatric patients requiring close assessment, cardiac monitoring, and clinical intervention. The role includes a 12-hour day schedule and care for patients with complex cardiac, respiratory, neurological, renal, and post-procedural needs.
Job Details
- Schedule: 12-hour day shifts, 36 hours per week.
- Required Qualifications:
- Two years of registered nursing experience.
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certification.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
- National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certification.
- Active California nursing license in hand.
- Experience with cardiac telemetry and required charting systems.
- Required seasonal influenza vaccination, with medical or religious exemptions permitted.
- Preferred Qualifications:
- Level I or Level II trauma experience.
- Experience caring for patients requiring noninvasive mechanical ventilation or invasive mechanical ventilation with a tracheostomy tube.
- Previous care of patients receiving non-titrated antiarrhythmic, vasoactive, or inotropic infusions.
- Additional Information:
- Patient ratios are approximately one nurse to three patients.
- Patient population includes adults and geriatric patients.
- Clinical responsibilities include cardiac telemetry, dysrhythmia interpretation and management, noninvasive airway management, ventilator and tracheostomy care, central and peripheral line management, chest tube care, blood product administration, wound care, feeding tube management, and pre- and post-cardiac procedure care.
- Patients may require close assessment and intervention at intervals no more frequent than every two hours.
- Interdisciplinary support includes physical therapy, respiratory services, interpretation services, phlebotomy, radiology, social services, lift teams, rapid response teams, pharmacy, transportation, and unit clerical support.
- Orientation includes required clinical training and specialty-specific learning modules.
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
