Travel Registered Nurse - Step Down Unit - Bismarck, ND

Travel assignment, 13 weeks, 12hr days, 36 hours a week, starting November 2, 2026.

Pay as Cross Country posts it: about $2,101 a week in all, a taxable rate of $23.16 an hour plus $1,267 a week in housing and meal stipends.

Job Summary

Step Down Unit Registered Nurse (RN) position available in a medical/telemetry setting within a healthcare facility. This role involves providing care to adult and geriatrics patients, with a focus on cardiac monitoring, cardiac caths, EP studies, pacemakers, and patients with acute or chronic conditions such as pneumonia, COVID-19, and sepsis. The nurse will work in a fast-paced environment, interpreting cardiac strips, managing titratable drips, and collaborating with charge nurses and patient care technicians.

Job Details

• Schedule: 12-hour shifts covering days and nights, with a minimum of 36 hours per week.
• Certifications & Qualifications: ACLS, BLS certifications required; valid license to submit.
• Experience: 2 years of clinical experience as a registered nurse, including tele/ cardiac and step down unit experience.
• Shift Timing: 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. or 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., with possible rotation on a weekly basis.
• Practice acts: RN to titrate and manage familiar titratable and set rate drips such as Amiodarone, Cardizem, Heparin, Nitro, Nipride, Lasix, low dose Dopamine; L-ve is not included.
• Patient Care: Nurse to interpret cardiac rhythms, read strips, and manage patient care with a patient-to-nurse ratio of 1:4-5 on day shifts and 1:5-6 on nights, with occasional overflow care.
• Responsibilities: Managing ventilators (Vents, Cpap, BiPap, High Flow), troubleshooting Bipap, trachs, and airvo devices.
• Support Staff: Nurse aides/patient care technicians present, with a goal of a 1:10 nurse-to-patient ratio.
• Equipment & Monitors: Portable telemetry monitors and bedside monitors with tech support at the nurses' station.
• Float: All areas available for help, including full patient loads in the PCU and Medical-Surgical units, with some ER holds/boarding.
• Orientation: Two 12-hour shifts scheduled on consecutive days during the first week, with independent work afterward.
• Additional Notes: Candidates should be within a 50-mile radius and not be affiliated full-time, part-time, or PRN with any facility associated with the organization. RTO request of 7 days or less needed upfront; additional RTOs not approved.
• Start Date: 11/02/2026 to 02/01/2027.
• Trauma Level: 2.
• Charting System: EPIC.
• Shift Notes: Evening, day, and float shifts available.
• Common Certifications: ACLS, BLS.

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