Stepdown Travel Nurse - Hazard, KY

This Stepdown travel nurse position in Hazard, Kentucky, with Advantis Medical is a 13-week Travel Stepdown Registered Nurse (RN) contract at Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center. This role pays $2,105 per week and follows a Nights shift with a 3x12 schedule.

In this Stepdown travel nursing role, you will provide progressive care in a hospital setting, assess and monitor patient conditions, support urgent interventions, document care accurately, and collaborate with physicians and the clinical care team during fast-moving patient situations.

Advantis Medical supports travel clinicians with streamlined credentialing to help with fast start dates, free license support and renewals, and Day 1 benefits.

Responsibilities

• Manage higher-acuity patients stepping down from intensive care who require close monitoring
• Monitor continuous telemetry and hemodynamic status, recognizing and escalating changes promptly
• Administer medications and IV therapy, including titratable drips approved for the unit, per facility protocol
• Care for patients on high-flow oxygen and non-invasive ventilation when assigned

Travel Nursing Requirements

• 2+ years of recent Stepdown nursing experience
• Active Kentucky RN License

Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center — Hazard, KY

Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center is a roughly 358-bed nonprofit acute-care hospital and the regional referral center for the Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH) system across eastern Kentucky's Central Appalachia, serving roughly ten mountain counties. Travel nurses work a rural referral hub with cardiac, cancer, and behavioral-health depth uncommon for its size.

• A Level IV Trauma Center and a DNV Primary Stroke Center, with ICU and med-surg units serving as the area's critical-care resource.
• An open-heart surgery program and cardiac catheterization, delivered through an ARH partnership with the University of Kentucky's Gill Heart Institute (a UK cardiothoracic surgeon based in Hazard performs coronary-bypass and valve surgery).
• The Hazard ARH Cancer Center and an accredited Breast Center, keeping cancer care close to home.
• Obstetrics and women's health, general/robotic/bariatric surgery, and a hyperbaric wound-care program.
• The adjacent Hazard ARH Psychiatric Center — the designated acute mental-health facility for a 21-county region — plus an on-campus long-term acute care hospital.