Travel RN - PACU
Sierra Vista, Arizona
Staffing partner
Posted Sep 4 · Not open to new grads
- Shift
- 10-hour days
- Hours a week
- 40
- Unit
- PACU
- Contract
- 13 weeks
What the listing says
Role
- Schedule
- 4-10 hour shifts, 6:45 AM to 5:15 PM
- Weekends
- Every other weekend
- Term
- 13 weeks · starts Oct 12, 2026 · Travel
- On the floor
- Floating required · On call
- Practice
- Cerner charting
- Setting
- Hospital
More role details
- Accepts
- RN
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Staffing partner
- American Traveler
- Unit
- PACU · 7 beds
- Patients
- Post-op adult patient population
Ratio not posted. Ask in the interview.
Pay
About this role
Assignment Overview
- Shift: Days, 4x10hrs
- Hours: 40 hrs/wk
- Start Date: Oct 12, 2026
- Length: 13 weeks
- Openings: 1
American Traveler is hiring an RN for a PACU position requiring 2+ years of PACU or critical care experience and AHA-issued ACLS certification.
Details
- Hospital-based PACU unit with 7 beds on the 1st floor
- Level 3 trauma center
- Post-op adult patient population
- Patient ratios follow ASPAN guidelines
- Uses Cerner EHR
- 4-10 hour shifts, 6:45 AM to 5:15 PM
- Every other weekend required, call only
- Call requirements apply
- Floating required per operational needs
Requirements
- Active AZ or compact RN license required
- AHA-issued ACLS certification required
- 2+ years of PACU and/or critical care experience required
- Associate's degree in nursing or higher required
- Social Security number and date of birth required for consideration
- Active licensure verification via Nursys required at time of consideration
- Copies of required certifications must be provided
Additional Information
- Provide post-anesthesia recovery care to adult surgical patients
- Must be flexible and team-oriented
- Scrub color determined by facility; no outside attire permitted
- Orientation held every 2nd and 4th Monday
- Candidates must live more than 60 miles from the facility to be eligible
- Candidates who worked perm staff at any LifePoint facility within the last 12 months are not eligible
- Cannot be employed elsewhere full-time while on assignment
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Requirements
- Active AZ or compact RN license required
- AHA-issued ACLS certification required
- 2+ years of PACU and/or critical care experience required
- Associate's degree in nursing or higher required
- Social Security number and date of birth required for consideration
- Active licensure verification via Nursys required at time of consideration
- Copies of required certifications must be provided
Place
- City
- Sierra Vista, Arizona
- Median rent
- $1,150/mo
- Local household income
- $70,291/yr
- Metro price level
- 11% below the national average
rent and tenant-paid utilities
all local households, not nurse pay
Sierra Vista area index 89.2, where 100 is the national average.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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American Traveler is a travel nursing staffing agency that places experienced registered nurses in temporary 13-week contract assignments at hospitals across multiple states. Assignments are located in diverse geographic settings, from Rapid City, SD, to Michigan's Upper Peninsula and Atlanta,…
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