Registered Nurse / Step Down Unit

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