Travel Registered Nurse - Pre Op Registered Nurses - Phoenix, AZ

Travel assignment, 13 weeks, 10hr days, 40 hours a week, starting 30 Nov 2026.

Pay as Cross Country posts it: about $2,520 a week in all, a taxable rate of $20 an hour plus $1,720.39 a week in housing and meal stipends.

Job Summary

Registered Nurse, Pre-Operative Nursing. The position assesses, plans, implements, evaluates, and documents patient care while coordinating with patients, families, physicians, and the healthcare team. The role supports procedural care, including nurse-driven sedation and patient monitoring during transesophageal echocardiograms, cardioversions, loop recorder implantations, and tilt-table procedures.

Job Details

• Schedule: Day shift, 10-hour shifts, with a minimum of 40 hours per week.
• Required Qualifications:
• Graduation from an accredited nursing program with an Associate’s, Bachelor’s, or Master’s degree in Nursing, or completion of a specialized nursing diploma program with at least two years of specialized training and/or experience.
• Current, valid Registered Nurse license in the state of practice, temporary or interim Registered Nurse license in the state of practice, or compact Registered Nurse licensure.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
• At least one year of experience in an acute care hospital setting for travel acute care positions, including experience within the past 12 months in the applicable specialty area.
• Preferred Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing.
• Professional certification.
• Additional related education or experience.
• Additional Information:
• Provides pre-operative and procedural nursing care, including assessment, care planning, intervention, evaluation, and documentation.
• Monitors patients during deep sedation and performs nurse-driven sedation as appropriate.
• Supports procedures including transesophageal echocardiograms, cardioversions, loop recorder implantations, and tilt-table procedures.
• Collaborates with multidisciplinary healthcare teams and provides direction and supervision to licensed and non-licensed personnel.
• Must be able to stand, walk, bend, squat, reach, stretch, transfer patients, and respond appropriately to unexpected patient care needs.
• Requires effective communication, adequate hearing and visual acuity, fine motor skills, eye-hand coordination, and the ability to use proper body mechanics.
• May be required to lift up to 75 pounds and follow standard precautions when exposed to blood and bodily fluids.

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