Travel Registered Nurse - Medical Surgical With Telemetry - Belleville, IL

Travel assignment, 13 weeks, 12hr nights, 36 hours a week, starting November 30, 2026.

Pay as Cross Country posts it: about $2,118 a week in all, a taxable rate of $21.54 an hour plus $1,342.32 a week in housing and meal stipends.

Job Summary

Medical-Surgical With Telemetry nursing position for an acute care setting. This role provides care for adult and geriatric patients with orthopedic surgery, total joint procedures, stable fractures, neurosurgery, pain management, and medical-surgical conditions. The position requires two years of experience and includes 12-hour night shifts.

Job Details

• Schedule: Night shift, 12-hour shifts, with a minimum of 36 hours per week. Weekend coverage is every other weekend, as scheduled.
• Required Qualifications: Two years of nursing experience; Basic Life Support (BLS) certification; experience with orthopedic procedures, total joint replacements, and fracture care; proficiency caring for orthopedic surgical and nonsurgical patients; experience with telemetry and medical-surgical care; ability to manage ports, central lines, chest tubes, feeding tubes, heparin, high-flow nasal cannula, insulin, arterial blood gas interpretation, dysrhythmias, isolation precautions and personal protective equipment, oxygen administration, patient-controlled analgesia, peripheral lines, phlebotomy, peripherally inserted central catheter lines, intravenous therapy, wound care, and wound vacuum therapy.
• Preferred Qualifications: National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certification; previous charge experience; experience with electronic medical record systems; experience managing noninvasive ventilation, blood products, cerebrovascular accidents, peripheral nerve block catheters, hemodialysis patients, neurosurgical patients, renal failure, telemetry monitoring, rapid response and code teams, continuous passive motion devices, and preoperative or postoperative orthopedic and neurosurgical care.
• Additional Information: The unit cares for adults and geriatric patients with a typical daily census of 16. Interdisciplinary support includes physical therapy, respiratory services, rapid response teams, and unit secretary support. The role includes caring for patients undergoing total joint and neurological surgeries, as well as patients with stable fractures and pain management needs. First-time travelers are accepted.

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