Registered Nurse / Step Down Unit

Job Summary Registered Nurse, Step Down Unit - Indiana. This position provides care for patients requiring intermediate-level monitoring and treatment, including cardiac, neurological, septic, postoperative, and respiratory conditions. The role requires strong assessment, telemetry interpretation, critical thinking, and management of complex intravenous therapies in a collaborative clinical setting. Job Details

• Schedule: 12-hour night shifts from 6:30 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., totaling 36 hours per week.
• Required Qualifications: Current active compact nursing license; American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS), American Heart Association (AHA) Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), and National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certifications; associate degree or certificate; at least 2 years of Registered Nurse experience, including 1 full year of step-down experience; completion of 1 travel assignment; and Level II trauma experience.
• Preferred Qualifications: Experience with stable home ventilators, PleurX drains, pericardial drains, lumbar drains, ventriculoperitoneal shunts, and naloxone infusions. Strong assessment and critical-thinking skills, resilience, adaptability, and effective teamwork are preferred.
• Additional Information: This is a 13-week contract beginning 11/16/2026 or 11/23/2026. Clinical responsibilities include telemetry and 12-lead electrocardiogram interpretation, initiation and titration of antiarrhythmic, heparin, insulin, and other infusions, postsurgical assessment and care, neurological assessments, dysphagia screening, and management of patients with cardiac conditions, alcohol-withdrawal monitoring needs, behavioral health needs, sepsis, diabetic ketoacidosis, cerebrovascular accidents, continuous positive airway pressure, feeding tubes, postoperative neurosurgical conditions, gastrointestinal bleeding, and hypothermia requiring warming devices. Recent EPIC experience and completion of a charting checkoff class are required. The assignment includes weekend and holiday rotation, with every other holiday and three weekends during each six-week schedule. Navy blue scrubs are required without competing healthcare system or agency logos. The clinical setting includes 16 beds, typical nurse-to-patient ratios of 1:3–4 on days and nights, and up to 1:5 for medical-surgical patients. Precepting students and newly hired staff may be 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