Medical-Surgical RN
Milwaukee, WI
Cross Country Nurses
3x12 hrs, Nights
Referral Bonus

Job Summary

Registered Nurse, Medical-Surgical Floor, Milwaukee, WI. This position provides care for medical-surgical and telemetry patients in a fast-paced, high-acuity setting. Responsibilities include managing patients with complex medical and surgical conditions, including ventilators, tracheostomies, wounds, heart failure, and post-operative needs.

Job Details

• Schedule: Nights, 12-hour shifts, with a minimum of 36 hours per week. Weekend rotation is every other weekend, with one holiday required per contract. No on-call shifts.
• Required Qualifications: Basic Life Support (BLS) certification; minimum of 2 years of registered nursing experience with telemetry; experience interpreting rhythm strips, managing central lines, starting intravenous lines, drawing blood, titrating diltiazem, heparin, and insulin infusions, providing wound care, surgical and post-operative care, wound vacuum management, percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tubes, tube feedings, total parenteral nutrition (TPN), tracheostomy care, ventilator management, chest tubes, and drains; charge nurse experience; comfort caring for ventilated patients.
• Preferred Qualifications: 12 years of intensive care unit experience; advanced teamwork and time-management skills.
• Float: Float rotation may be required.
• Additional Information: Patient populations may include chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chest pain, post-cardiac catheterization recovery, diabetes, cellulitis, chronic tracheostomies, wounds, ventilator dependence, surgical conditions, and heart failure. Registered nurses manage ventilated patients while respiratory therapy manages the ventilator; additional ventilator education and orientation are provided. Typical registered nurse assignments are 45 patients during days and evenings and 67 patients at night. The role includes telemetry monitoring, charge responsibilities, and collaboration with respiratory therapy, hospitalists, phlebotomy, intravenous access specialists, technicians, and unit support staff. Staff may float to other medical-surgical units and emergency department holding areas. A fatigue policy limits staff to no more than 60 hours per week or five consecutive 12-hour shifts. Scrub colors are unrestricted except for camouflage and denim.

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