Registered Nurse / Step Down Unit

Job Summary RN, Step Down, Atlanta, GA - This 13-week assignment supports a high-acuity, cardiac-focused step-down unit with frequent admissions, discharges, and significant procedural volume. The role requires strong cardiac experience, telemetry interpretation skills, cardiac drip management, and the ability to care for complex cardiac patient populations. Job Details

• Schedule: Night shift, 12-hour shifts, with a minimum of 36 hours per week.
• Required Qualifications:
• Minimum of 18 months of recent cardiac unit experience.
• Experience independently interpreting cardiac rhythms and successfully passing a proctored dysrhythmia examination on the first attempt.
• Experience managing insulin, milrinone, dobutamine, amiodarone, heparin, furosemide, and nitroglycerin infusions.
• Experience with telemetry interpretation, chest tubes, and cardiac procedures.
• Strong cardiac skills competency ratings.
• Experience with high-acuity patients, frequent admissions and discharges, and cardiac-focused step-down care.
• Preferred Qualifications:
• Heart transplant experience.
• Left ventricular assist device experience.
• Training may be available for heart transplant and left ventricular assist device care.
• Additional Information:
• Typical nurse-to-patient ratios range from 1:4 to 1:5.
• No ventilator patients are expected.
• Common patient populations include heart failure, atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, supraventricular tachycardia, ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation, fluid volume overload, chest pain, hypertension, heart transplant patients, congenital heart disease, and left ventricular assist device patients.
• Common procedures include right and left heart catheterizations, transradial band management, sheath removal and management, stent placement, valve replacement procedures, ST-elevation myocardial infarction and non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction care, pacemaker procedures, implantable cardioverter-defibrillator procedures, cardioversions, ablations, and groin site management.
• Travelers may float to similar cardiac or step-down units as needed but will not float to cardiac monitor technician roles.
• 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