Job Summary
Registered Nurse, Step Down Unit position. The role supports acute-care patients across medical-surgical telemetry and progressive care units during a 12-week assignment. The Registered Nurse may float among units based on operational needs and must be prepared to care for patients within the designated clinical skill set.
Job Details
- Schedule: Night shifts, 12 hours per shift, with a minimum of 36 hours per week.
- Required Qualifications:
- Registered Nurse with an active license.
- Two years of Progressive Care Unit (PCU) or Medical-Surgical Telemetry acute-care experience.
- Travel nursing experience.
- Completion of the Registered Nurse Step Down Unit (PCU) specialty examination and required skills validation.
- Experience with the EPIC electronic health record system.
- Additional Information:
- 12-week assignment.
- Every other weekend and every other holiday coverage required.
- Daily float rotation may include medical-surgical, medical-surgical telemetry, progressive care, and emergency department boarding assignments.
- Intensive Care Unit assignments may be required only when medical-surgical or progressive care patients overflow into those units.
- Medical-surgical and step-down Registered Nurses may be considered under the same credentialing requirements.
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
