Travel Registered Nurse - Medical Surgical With Telemetry - Lee'S Summit, MO

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

Pay as Cross Country posts it: about $2,129 a week in all, a taxable rate of $20 an hour plus $1,409.16 a week in housing and meal stipends.

Job Summary

Registered Nurse, Medical-Surgical With Telemetry. This night-shift travel position provides care to adult and geriatric patients in an intermediate-care setting, including individuals with cardiac arrhythmias, sepsis, wounds, congestive heart failure, cerebrovascular accidents, and postoperative needs. The role requires telemetry expertise, management of complex medical-surgical conditions, and collaboration with interdisciplinary support services.

Job Details

• Schedule: Nights, 12-hour shifts, 36 hours per week; weekend coverage of 4–6 shifts every 6 weeks.
• Required Qualifications: Minimum of 2 years of experience; Basic Life Support (BLS) certification; National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certification; medical-surgical and telemetry experience; cardiac telemetry and dysrhythmia interpretation and management; telemetry unit monitoring; rapid response and code team procedures; feeding tube care; blood product administration; central, peripheral, and peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) line care; intravenous therapy; heparin protocols; cardiac drips without titration; patient-controlled analgesia (PCA); cerebrovascular accident (CVA) care; total joint replacement care; surgical drains; chest tubes; high-flow nasal cannula; oxygen administration; tracheostomy care; isolation precautions; wound care and wound vacuum management; community healthcare facility experience; active Kansas and Missouri nursing licenses or a compact nursing license.
• Preferred Qualifications: Experience with electronic medical record charting; travel nursing experience; charge experience; care of patients requiring noninvasive airway management, bilevel positive airway pressure (BiPAP), continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), arterial blood gas interpretation, post-cardiac angiogram care, post-myocardial infarction care, pre- and post-cardiac catheterization care, pre- and post-hemodialysis management, renal failure care, neuro stepdown care, and telemetry oncology care.
• Additional Information: The assignment serves a general intermediate-care population of adults and geriatric patients, with an average daily census of 29 and a typical patient ratio of 1:5. Clinical conditions include sepsis and infection, wounds, congestive heart failure, cardiac arrhythmias, acute myocardial infarction, cerebrovascular accident (CVA) and transient ischemic attack (TIA), altered mental status, alcohol withdrawal, general postoperative care, orthopedic conditions, urological procedures, and gastrointestinal bleeding. Interdisciplinary support includes intravenous therapy teams, physical therapy, respiratory services, interpretation services, phlebotomy, radiology, social services, rapid response teams, pharmacy, transportation, and unit secretary services.

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