Job Summary
Registered Nurse, Step Down Unit. The position provides care for patients requiring intermediate-level monitoring and treatment, including cardiac conditions, sepsis, diabetic ketoacidosis, cerebrovascular events, gastrointestinal bleeding, and post-surgical recovery. The role requires strong assessment, critical-thinking, telemetry interpretation, and management of titratable intravenous medications.
Job Details
- Schedule: Day shifts of 12 hours from 6:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., totaling 36 hours per week. Weekend and holiday rotation includes three weekends within each six-week schedule and every other holiday.
- Assignment: 13-week assignment from 11/16/2026 through 02/14/2027.
- Required Qualifications: Current active compact Registered Nurse license; American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), and National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certifications; associate degree or certificate; at least 2 years of Registered Nurse experience, including 1 full year of step-down experience; at least 1 completed travel assignment; Level II trauma experience; recent electronic medical record experience; telemetry and 12-lead electrocardiogram interpretation; ability to initiate and titrate medications including antiarrhythmics, heparin, and insulin; post-surgical assessment and care; neurological assessments and dysphagia screening.
- Preferred Qualifications: Experience caring for patients with stable home ventilators, pleural or pericardial drains, lumbar drains, ventriculoperitoneal shunts, and naloxone infusions. Strong assessment and critical-thinking skills, resilience, adaptability, and effective teamwork are preferred.
- Float: Float rotation may be required.
- Additional Information: The step-down unit has 16 beds with typical daytime staffing ratios of 1 nurse to 3–4 patients. Patient populations include post-cardiac catheterization and stent procedures, pacemakers, alcohol-withdrawal monitoring, behavioral health needs, sepsis, diabetic ketoacidosis, cerebrovascular events, continuous positive airway pressure, feeding tubes, postoperative craniotomy care, gastrointestinal bleeding, and temperature-management needs. Responsibilities include managing titratable intravenous medications, completing neurological assessments, supporting dysphagia screening, and caring for patients requiring intermediate-level monitoring. The facility is a teaching environment and may require precepting students and newly hired staff. Navy blue scrubs are required.
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
