Registered Nurse / Step Down Unit

Job Summary Registered Nurse, Step Down Unit, Atlanta, GA. The role supports high-acuity, cardiac-focused progressive care units with frequent admissions and discharges, significant procedural volume, and typical nurse-to-patient ratios of 1:4 to 1:5. The assignment requires strong cardiac, telemetry, cardiac-drip, and chest-tube experience, with floating to similar cardiac or progressive care units as needed. Job Details

• Schedule: Night shifts, 12-hour shifts, 36 hours per week.
• Required Qualifications:
• Minimum 18 months of recent cardiac unit experience.
• Required experience with insulin, milrinone, dobutamine, amiodarone, heparin, furosemide, and nitroglycerin cardiac drips.
• Independent cardiac rhythm interpretation and successful completion of a proctored dysrhythmia examination on the first attempt, without technical assistance or remediation.
• Experience with telemetry interpretation and successful completion of a telemetry examination.
• Experience with chest tubes.
• Electronic medical record experience using EPIC.
• A rating of “4” on all cardiac skills listed on the skills checklist.
• Preferred Qualifications:
• Heart transplant experience.
• Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) experience.
• Training may be available for heart transplant and Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) care.
• Additional Information:
• 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 (LVAD) 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 management, implantable cardioverter-defibrillator management, cardioversions, ablations, and groin-site management.
• The role does not include ventilator patients.
• Travelers may float to similar cardiac or progressive care units as needed but will not float to the cardiac monitor technician role.
• The assignment length is 13 weeks, beginning 11/30/2026.
• 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