Medical Surgical Registered Nurse - Contract
Carbondale, Illinois
Staffing partner
- Eligibility
- RN
- Shift
- 12-hour nights
- Hours a week
- 36 hrs a week
- Unit
- Med-Surg
Posted Aug 17 · Not open to new grads
What the listing says
Role
- Schedule
- 12-hour nights · 3 a week · 36 hours
- Weekends
- Every other weekend
- Nurse to patient
- 1:5–1:6
- Term
- Travel
- Setting
- Hospital
- Accepts
- RN
stated in this posting
More role details
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Staffing partner
- Springfield Staffing
Pay
- Against the board
- Inside the IL travel range
IL travel postings that state pay run $1,800/week to $2,690/week, the middle half $1,980/week to $2,460/week, across 111 postings.
About this role
*Job Description:*
4 Medical is a 25-bed unit, 11 are private rooms and 7 semi-private.
Nursing ratio is 5:1 on days and 5-6:1 on nights, with nurses occasionally having 1 total care patient.
We get a wide variety of patients, but our biggest population is stroke patients; we get most strokes that don't need TPA and comfort care or hospice patients. We also get a variety of post-operative patients, including amputations, drains, chest tubes, and feeding tubes. We get heparin drips, wound care, altered mental status, CIWA patients, Aki, dialysis, and COPD exacerbations. RNs who are stroke certified, able to do three 12-hour shifts, every other weekend, and every other holiday.
#HC3
Pay: $2,350.00 - $2,450.00 per week
Experience
- Medical-surgical: 2 years (Required)
Work Location: In person
Sourced from a public job board.
“#HC3 Pay: $2,350.00 - $2,450.00 per week Experience: * Medical-surgical: 2 years (Required) Work Location: In person *Job Description:* 4 Medical is a 25-bed unit, 11 are private rooms and 7 semi-private. Nu” · from this posting
Requirements
- RN
- Medical-surgical: 2 years
Benefits
- Paid holidays
- AWHEP
Place
- City
- Carbondale, Illinois
- Median rent
- $771/mo
- Local household income
- $32,128/yr
- State price level
- about the national average
rent and tenant-paid utilities · Census ACS 2024
all local households, not nurse pay · Census ACS 2024
Illinois index 100.0, where 100 is the national average.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 Regional Price Parities · Census ACS 2024.
How this role fits you
About the employer
On your path
Med surg is open from year one. A broad first base while you learn which path pulls harder.
Worth asking
We can’t answer these from the listing we have. Good ones to ask a recruiter or in the interview.
- Can you walk me through base pay range and differentials?
- What should I expect for holiday, call, and rotation?
- What orientation, preceptor time, and ongoing unit support are included?
- How are floating and staffing support handled day to day?
