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Travel Registered Nurse - Emergency Room - Belleville, IL

Cross Country Healthcare logoCross Country Healthcare$1,955/wk2 openings in Belleville, ILContractPosted today
  • Travel
  • BLS
  • ACLS
  • PALS
  • TNCC

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How this pay compares

This assignment posts $1,955 a week, the agency's gross: a taxable hourly rate plus housing and meal stipends. Open travel emergency room nurse assignments post a median of $2,151 a week, the middle half $1,980 to $2,315, across 1,519 assignments, so this one is below the middle half of what they post. Staff pay is hourly and carries no stipends, so it is not set beside it.

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About the job

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

Pay as Cross Country posts it: about $1,955 a week in all, a taxable rate of $21.54 an hour plus $1,179.65 a week in housing and meal stipends.

Job Summary

Emergency Room position providing overnight emergency care for neonates, infants, children, adolescents, adults, and older adults. The role includes caring for diverse emergency conditions, supporting a 1:3 patient ratio, and performing advanced procedures such as intubations, chest tube placement, central and arterial line insertion, trauma care, and post-cardiac-arrest hypothermia management.

Job Details

  • Schedule: Night shifts consisting of 12-hour shifts, with a minimum of 36 hours per week; every other weekend required.
  • Required Qualifications: At least 2 years of emergency room experience; Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), Basic Life Support (BLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), and National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certification; competency in caring for ventilated patients, continuous intravenous sedation, interpretation and management of dysrhythmias, procedural sedation administration and monitoring, starting and maintaining intravenous lines, and emergency triage.
  • Preferred Qualifications: Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI), Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC), and Emergency Nurses Pediatric Course (ENPC) certifications.
  • Additional Information: Care includes adult and pediatric emergency patients, trauma patients, transfers, sexual assault cases, mental health patients awaiting appropriate placement, code strokes, cardiac emergencies, cardiac arrest response, and pediatric emergencies. Required clinical procedures and equipment may include rapid infusers, hypothermia equipment, video laryngoscopes, bedside cardiac monitoring, ultrasound, and infant warmers.

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

From Cross Country Healthcare's job posting for Belleville, IL, checked Oct 28, 2026. The employer's own page is the final word on requirements and availability.

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National healthcare staffing company in Boca Raton, Florida, placing travel nurses, allied professionals and therapists, with local contract and per diem work too. Source: Cross Country, Travel FAQs

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