Job Summary
Step Down Unit specialty in an acute care setting. The role supports patients across medical-surgical telemetry and progressive care units, including post-procedural, cardiac, orthopedic, and geriatric patients. The clinician must be comfortable interpreting cardiac rhythms, managing titratable infusions, and adapting to assignments across multiple units.
Job Details
- Schedule: 12-hour day shifts, 36 hours per week; scheduling includes every other weekend and holidays according to the regular staff rotation. Flexibility is required, and assignments may be communicated approximately two hours before the shift.
- Required Qualifications:
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certification
- Valid professional license required for submission
- At least 2 years of experience, including at least 1 year in a progressive care unit setting
- Additional Information:
- Float pool coverage includes medical-surgical telemetry and progressive care units across two campuses, including inpatients holding in the emergency department.
- Typical nurse-to-patient ratios are 1:4 in progressive care and 1:5–6 in medical-surgical telemetry.
- Patient populations include geriatric, orthopedic, post-myocardial infarction, post-cardiac catheterization, and post-coronary artery bypass graft patients.
- Clinicians must be comfortable managing titratable heparin, Cardizem, amiodarone, nitroglycerin, dopamine, dobutamine, and insulin infusions.
- Cardiac rhythm interpretation is required. Progressive care units include bedside monitoring, while monitor technicians support telemetry monitoring.
- Clinicians may care for patients requiring continuous positive airway pressure, bilevel positive airway pressure, and heated high-flow oxygen.
- A dysrhythmia examination must be passed within two attempts before contract signing, with a minimum score of 80%.
- Orientation includes an 8-hour general session and unit-specific 12-hour shifts.
- Solid-color professional scrubs are required; navy scrubs will be implemented according to updated dress guidelines.
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
