Job Summary
Registered Nurse, Step Down Unit. This 13-week assignment provides day-shift care for patients requiring cardiac monitoring, post-surgical assessments, neurological evaluations, and management of complex medical conditions. The role requires strong assessment and critical-thinking skills, recent electronic charting experience, and the ability to care for a diverse step-down patient population.
Job Details
- Schedule: Day shift, 12-hour shifts, with a minimum of 36 hours per week. The assignment begins 12/14/2026 and includes every other holiday and three weekends during each six-week schedule.
- Required Qualifications:
- Associate degree or certificate
- Current active compact nursing license
- American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS)
- American Heart Association (AHA) Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)
- National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certification
- Minimum of 2 years of Registered Nurse experience
- At least 1 full year of step-down experience
- Completion of at least 1 travel assignment
- Trauma Level II experience
- Recent electronic charting experience, including completion of a required checkoff class
- Telemetry and 12-lead electrocardiogram interpretation, including successful completion of telemetry testing
- Ability to initiate and titrate antiarrhythmic, heparin, insulin, and other medication infusions
- Post-surgical assessment and care
- National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) and neurological assessments
- Dysphagia screening
- Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with stable home ventilators
- Experience with PleurX and pericardial drains
- Experience with lumbar drains and ventriculoperitoneal shunts
- Experience with naloxone infusions
- Float: Float rotation may be required.
- Additional Information:
- Patient populations include cardiac patients following catheterization, stent placement, or interventions; patients with pacemakers; alcohol withdrawal; behavioral health needs; sepsis; diabetic ketoacidosis; cerebrovascular accidents; continuous positive airway pressure; feeding tubes; postoperative craniotomy care; gastrointestinal bleeding; and hypothermia requiring warming devices.
- The unit includes 16 beds with typical day-shift ratios of 1:3–4.
- Cross-campus floating may be required with advance notice, along with mid-shift floating within the same campus.
- Strong clinical assessment, critical-thinking, adaptability, resilience, teamwork, and communication skills are expected.
- Navy blue scrubs are required, without competing healthcare system or agency logos.
- The role may include precepting students and newly hired staff.
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
