Float Pool Nursing Jobs (RN, LPN and CNA)

A staff nurse, employed by the hospital, who is not assigned to one unit: each shift they go where the hospital is short, within the units they are trained for (a critical care float covers the ICUs, a med-surg float the medical and surgical floors). Hospitals also call it a resource pool, a resource team, a flex pool or an internal agency. It is not a travel assignment: the job is the hospital's own, with its benefits.

Every open nursing and CNA job whose title puts it in a float or resource pool, read from each employer's own job board. Travel assignments are left out, and so is a "resource nurse" title on its own, which on a unit usually means the charge or resource role. Each unit's page lists the float pools for that unit, and the PRN page those worked as needed.

The float pool jobs open today that state an hourly rate post a median of $48.95 an hour for nurses and $23.29 an hour for CNAs & PCTs (the middle of each posted range). Some float pools pay a differential, a premium or a rate of their own on top of base pay: the float pool jobs whose posting states one quote it on each row. Registered nurse pay gives the posted rates of every RN job to compare with.

Most postings that state it ask for one or two years in the units the pool covers, since a float nurse has to be ready on any of them from the first hour of a shift; a few hospitals hire new graduates into a float pool residency. Each posting states its own requirement.

Of the jobs open today, the most are at AdventHealth (60), Advocate Health (49), Allegheny Health Network (44), HealthTrust Workforce Solutions (43) and Ascension (38).