Below most Florida travel postingsFlorida travel postings that state pay run $1,640/week to $2,740/week, the middle half $2,000/week to $2,430/week, across 192 postings.
American Traveler is hiring a Telemetry RN for a Level 1 Trauma facility, requiring 2 years of recent acute care Tele experience and an active FL/Compact license.
Details
Telemetry unit within a Level 1 Trauma hospital setting
Night shift schedule (3x12 hours, 19:00-7:30)
Nurse-to-patient ratio of 1:6
Every other weekend (EOW) required
Floating to other Telemetry floors as needed
Epic charting system experience required; Cerner preferred
Requirements
Active FL or Compact RN license required
Current
certifications
BLS, ACLS, and NIHSS via AHA
TNCC certification preferred
Minimum 2 years of recent, consecutive Telemetry experience within the past 24 months in a US hospital
Level 1 Trauma experience required
Degree from an accredited nursing school or FBON-approved institution
Skilled in IV therapy/phlebotomy, blood product administration, central and peripheral line care, cardiac monitoring, and dysrhythmia interpretation and management
Experience managing cardiac and vasoactive drips (no titration)
Experience with isolation precautions/PPE and medication administration
Experience with non-invasive airway management and nasal cannula
Must pass a Florida AHCA Level 2 background screening, including fingerprint-based state and federal criminal history checks
Additional Information
Provide direct patient care to Telemetry patients, including cardiac monitoring and emergency response
Must work 23 major holidays, covering both eve and day shifts as needed
No block scheduling requests accepted
Smoke-free facility
Required to pass a Basic Arrhythmia assessment; must achieve 100% in lethal rhythm section and 83% or higher in all other sections
Local candidates within a 60-mile radius are considered at a lower pay rate
Former Broward Health permanent employees must have a 1-year separation before returning as a traveler
Neighborhoods+Young professionals often land in walkable Flagler Village or historic Sailboat Bend on the New River; Wilton Manors and Oakland Park sit just north with a mixed urban-suburban feel. Family-oriented nurses typically look west to Plantation, Davie, Sunrise, Weston, Coral Springs, Parkland, Cooper City, and Pembroke Pines for larger homes and stronger school reputations. East-side options named by locals include Hollywood and Pompano Beach (Boynton Beach farther north); Tamarac is the farther-west, more affordable alternative. Inland Melrose Park is single-family homes with yards on a spoke-and-wheel street grid, about 5 miles from downtown and the beach and described as roughly 10 minutes from a hospital, the interstate, and the airport.
Young professionals often land in walkable Flagler Village or historic Sailboat Bend on the New River; Wilton Manors and Oakland Park sit just north with a mixed urban-suburban feel. Family-oriented nurses typically look west to Plantation, Davie, Sunrise, Weston, Coral Springs, Parkland, Cooper City, and Pembroke Pines for larger homes and stronger school reputations.
East-side options named by locals include Hollywood and Pompano Beach (Boynton Beach farther north); Tamarac is the farther-west, more affordable alternative. Inland Melrose Park is single-family homes with yards on a spoke-and-wheel street grid, about 5 miles from downtown and the beach and described as roughly 10 minutes from a hospital, the interstate, and the airport.
Getting around+High-rise growth is crowding streets; relocators and a three-year resident both treat traffic jams and congestion as a daily given, with city commissioners promising improvements. Broward County Transit is Florida’s second-largest system—fixed-route and express buses plus community shuttles to more than 1,600 stops. Other options: Sun Trolley’s seven routes (most free; flag one down like a cab), Tri-Rail’s 72-mile commuter line through 18 cities including Fort Lauderdale, Brightline to Miami and West Palm Beach (Orlando planned), and Broward BCycle (16 stations inside city limits). Melrose Park is about 10 minutes from a hospital, the interstate, and the airport, but you still need a car for most errands there; Las Olas parking is limited (garages or rideshare) and Fort Lauderdale Beach lots fill early at peak times.
High-rise growth is crowding streets; relocators and a three-year resident both treat traffic jams and congestion as a daily given, with city commissioners promising improvements. Broward County Transit is Florida’s second-largest system—fixed-route and express buses plus community shuttles to more than 1,600 stops.
Other options: Sun Trolley’s seven routes (most free; flag one down like a cab), Tri-Rail’s 72-mile commuter line through 18 cities including Fort Lauderdale, Brightline to Miami and West Palm Beach (Orlando planned), and Broward BCycle (16 stations inside city limits). Melrose Park is about 10 minutes from a hospital, the interstate, and the airport, but you still need a car for most errands there; Las Olas parking is limited (garages or rideshare) and Fort Lauderdale Beach lots fill early at peak times.
Outdoors+Fort Lauderdale Beach has a palm-lined promenade for bikes and rollerblades with lifeguards on duty; quieter Lauderdale-by-the-Sea offers patch-reef snorkeling at high tide, with jet-ski, paddleboard, and parasail rentals concentrated along A1A. Hugh Taylor Birch State Park has kayaking on freshwater lagoons, hammock trails, bike rental, and picnic spots; Secret Woods Nature Center and Anne Kolb Nature Center add mangrove boardwalks and an observation tower. The Intracoastal and hundreds of miles of mostly man-made canals—the “Venice of America,” with more than 42,000 registered yachts—support water taxis, DIY boat rentals, and New River cruises. Day trips reach Flamingo Gardens and Everglades airboat tours.
Fort Lauderdale Beach has a palm-lined promenade for bikes and rollerblades with lifeguards on duty; quieter Lauderdale-by-the-Sea offers patch-reef snorkeling at high tide, with jet-ski, paddleboard, and parasail rentals concentrated along A1A. Hugh Taylor Birch State Park has kayaking on freshwater lagoons, hammock trails, bike rental, and picnic spots; Secret Woods Nature Center and Anne Kolb Nature Center add mangrove boardwalks and an observation tower. The Intracoastal and hundreds of miles of mostly man-made canals—the “Venice of America,” with more than 42,000 registered yachts—support water taxis, DIY boat rentals, and New River cruises.
Day trips reach Flamingo Gardens and Everglades airboat tours.
Fort Lauderdale is the “Venice of America”: more than 42,000 registered yachts, a hop-on water taxi, and beach-plus-downtown living that locals contrast with Miami’s chaos. Walkable Flagler Village, historic Sailboat Bend, Wilton Manors, and Oakland Park draw younger professionals; Plantation, Davie, Sunrise, Weston, Coral Springs, and Cooper City are the family-and-schools suburbs. Melrose Park still offers single-family yards around a $440K median, about 10 minutes from a hospital, the interstate, and FLL. Expect a citywide single-family median near $617K, living costs about 14% above the U.S. average, and insurance that can dwarf the mortgage surprise. BCT, Sun Trolley, Tri-Rail, and Brightline help, but traffic and a car remain the default. Off-shift life runs through Las Olas, Cafe Bastille, Shooters Waterfront, MICHELIN-recognized MAASS, Hugh Taylor Birch State Park, and Everglades airboats—traded against hurricane season and seasonal congestion.
