Travel Registered Nurse - Progressive Care Unit - Tacoma, WA

Travel assignment, 14 weeks, 12hr days, 36 hours a week, starting November 30, 2026.

Pay as Cross Country posts it: about $2,297 a week in all, a taxable rate of $20 an hour plus $1,576.58 a week in housing and meal stipends.

Job Summary

Progressive Care Unit position for a registered nurse supporting a float pool across progressive care, telemetry, medical-surgical, and emergency department holding areas. The role cares for patients with complex medical, surgical, cardiac, neurological, respiratory, and trauma-related conditions while floating within the scope of practice. Strong progressive care or telemetry experience and prior float pool experience are accepted for first-time travelers.

Job Details

• Required Qualifications: Minimum of 1 year of nursing experience; current Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), and National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certifications; strong progressive care or telemetry experience; previous float pool experience for first-time travelers; telemetry competency; proficiency with intravenous medication titration, cardiac rhythm interpretation, bilevel positive airway pressure management, ostomy care, drains, tracheostomies, chest tubes, lumbar drains, and transradial band management; electronic medical record experience required.
• Schedule: Day or night shifts, typically 7:00 AM–7:30 PM or 7:00 PM–7:30 AM; 12-hour shifts; 36 hours per week; every-other-weekend rotation may include occasional back-to-back weekends; no on-call requirement.
• Float: Float rotation may be required.
• Additional Information: The position floats within the scope of practice across progressive care, telemetry, medical-surgical, and emergency department holding areas. Patient populations may include cardiac stepdown and observation patients, post-cardiac procedures, myocardial infarction, pacemakers, ablations, chest pain, post-catheterization care, neurological and trauma patients, respiratory compromise, sepsis, renal failure, bleeding disorders, congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pneumonia, orthopedic conditions, and stroke. Typical ratios are 1:4 in progressive care and 1:5–6 in medical-surgical assignments. Departmental support includes certified nursing assistants, charge nurses without patient assignments, hospitalists, respiratory therapists, and physicians available around the clock. Orientation includes general organizational orientation, progressive care unit orientation, and additional unit orientation. Clinical responsibilities include completing and documenting hourly rounding, providing bedside reports, documenting pain before and after medication administration, following medication-storage requirements, and completing required two-nurse medication waste verification.

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