Travel Registered Nurse - Emergency Room - Torrance, CA

Travel assignment, 13 weeks, 12hr days, 36 hours a week, starting 30 Nov 2026.

Pay as Cross Country posts it: about $2,484 a week in all, a taxable rate of $25 an hour plus $1,584.29 a week in housing and meal stipends.

Job Summary

Emergency Room position supporting patients across neonatal, infant, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric populations in an acute-care setting. The role provides emergency nursing care with a typical patient ratio of 1:4 and may include pediatric floating with appropriate support. The assignment is scheduled from 11/30/2026 through 03/01/2027.

Job Details

• Schedule: Day shifts, 12 hours per shift, 36 hours per week; every other weekend, totaling 6–8 weekend shifts per contract.
• Required Qualifications:
• At least 2 years of Emergency Room experience.
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), Basic Life Support (BLS), National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC), and Emergency Department Approved for Pediatrics (EDAP) or Emergency Nurses Pediatric Course (ENPC) certification.
• Compact nursing license must be in hand at submission.
• Experience caring for a 1:4 patient ratio.
• Ability to provide care for neonatal, infant, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients.
• Preferred Qualifications:
• Previous charge experience.
• Level I or Level II trauma experience.
• Float: Float rotation may be required.
• Additional Information:
• Emergency nursing responsibilities may include triage, procedural sedation monitoring, arterial line management, central line care, blood product administration, ventilated-patient care, continuous intravenous sedation, intravenous vasopressors, and dysrhythmia management.
• Experience with stroke, neuro-trauma, head injury, spinal cord injury, orthopedic trauma, traumatic brain injury, traumatic amputation, gunshot wounds, near drowning, and pediatric emergency care is relevant.
• The role may involve management of non-trauma and trauma emergencies, isolation precautions, personal protective equipment, phlebotomy, intravenous access, interpretation of arterial blood gases, and interpretation and management of dysrhythmias.
• Interdisciplinary support may include respiratory services, physical therapy, radiology, pharmacy, social services, rapid response teams, and intravenous therapy teams.

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