Step Down Unit RN
Fargo, ND
Cross Country Nurses
3x12 hrs
Referral Bonus

Job Summary

Registered Nurse, Step Down Unit. This role provides care for medically complex patients requiring close monitoring, including stable ventilated patients, patients receiving cardiac or vasoactive intravenous medications, and post-operative and neurological patients. The position involves interdisciplinary collaboration, patient assessment, medication administration, and individualized care planning in an acute care setting.

Job Details

• Required Qualifications: Registered Nurse license in North Dakota or a compact state; Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certification from the American Heart Association (AHA); Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from the American Heart Association (AHA); National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certification; at least 2 years of recent intensive care unit experience in a hospital with 200 or more beds and Level I trauma designation; experience titrating vasopressor infusions; ventilator experience; telemetry or step-down unit experience; experience with computerized charting using EPIC.
• Schedule: Rotating 12-hour shifts, 36 hours per week, including every other weekend and holidays; no call requirement.
• Preferred Qualifications: Critical care experience.
• Additional Information: Provides care for patients requiring closer monitoring than a medical-surgical unit, including stable ventilated patients with tracheostomies, patients receiving stable cardiac or vasoactive infusions, and complex post-operative and neurological populations. Responsibilities include patient assessments, medication administration, individualized care planning, and interdisciplinary collaboration. The assignment includes floating within the designated unit cluster and, when needed, to medical-surgical units caring for intermediate-care patients. Typical nurse-to-patient ratios are 3 to 4 patients based on acuity. Equipment includes ventilators, bilevel positive airway pressure devices, computerized charting, and automated medication dispensing systems. Orientation includes ventilator and pacemaker training. 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