Travel Registered Nurse - Emergency Room - Olympia, WA
Cross Country Healthcare$1,902–$2,676/wk2 openings in Olympia, WAContractPosted 1w agoStill open, checked every night- Nurse-to-patient ratio 1:4
- 12-hour shifts
- Travel
- BLS
- ACLS
- PALS
- TNCC
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Washington
2 open- $2,676/wk
Olympia, WA (opens on this page)
Contract · Posted 1w ago
- $1,902/wk
Olympia, WA (opens on this page)
Contract · Posted 3w ago
How this pay compares
This assignment posts $2,289 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 $2,159 a week, the middle half $1,980 to $2,320, across 1,655 assignments, so this one is within the middle half of what they post. Staff pay is hourly and carries no stipends, so it is not set beside it.
What Washington law requires of the employer
- Nurse staffing committee or plan: Each Washington hospital must have a staffing committee, at least half nonsupervisory direct care nursing staff, that develops the hospital staffing plan. RCW 70.41.420(1) (source: RCW 70.41.420(1))
- Limits on mandatory overtime: Health care facilities may not require covered employees to work overtime, except for unforeseeable emergent circumstances, prescheduled on-call time within limits and procedures in progress (covers hourly or collectively bargained employees in direct patient care at health care facilities, including nurses (definition RCW 49.28.140 (source: RCW 49.28.140)
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About the job
Travel assignment, 13 weeks, 12hr nights, 48 hours a week, starting November 17, 2026.
Pay as Cross Country posts it: about $2,676 a week in all, a taxable rate of $20.63 an hour plus $1,603 a week in housing and meal stipends.
Job Summary
Registered Nurse, Emergency Room - Nights. The position provides emergency nursing care for patients across the lifespan in a high-volume acute-care setting with approximately 170 daily visits. The role supports stroke, cardiac, and trauma care and requires strong clinical judgment, Epic experience, and willingness to float among like units.
Job Details
- Schedule: Night shifts, 4 shifts of 12 hours each, 48 hours per week, for a 13-week assignment.
- Required Qualifications:
- Minimum of 1 year of emergency nursing experience.
- Current Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), Basic Life Support (BLS), National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), and Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC) certifications.
- Epic charting experience.
- Compact nursing license in hand at submission.
- Experience caring for patients across the lifespan, including neonates, infants, children, adolescents, adults, and geriatric patients.
- Experience with arterial line management, ventilated patient care, central line management, continuous intravenous sedation, arterial blood gas interpretation, dysrhythmia interpretation and management, isolation precautions and personal protective equipment, intravenous vasopressors, multisystem organ dysfunction or failure, and triage.
- Preferred Qualifications: Trauma experience is preferred.
- Float: Float rotation may be required.
- Additional Information: The emergency department provides care in a high-volume setting for patients of all ages, with support from intravenous therapy, physical therapy, respiratory, interpretation, phlebotomy, radiology, social services, rapid response, pharmacy, transportation, and unit secretary teams. Patient ratios are approximately 1:4, and Epic experience is required.
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 Olympia, WA, checked 9 Nov 2026. The employer's own page is the final word on requirements and availability.
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