Travel Registered Nurse PCU Job

HealthForce Healthcare

Atlanta, Georgia

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Posted Jul 21

Shift and hours: Days36 hours a week
Unit and setting: Stepdown · Hospital
License: RN licenseGeorgia RN license
Term: 13 weeks · starts Aug 17, 2026 · Travel

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What it pays

Against similar roles: Below most Georgia travel postingsGeorgia travel postings that state pay run $1,650/week to $2,600/week, the middle half $1,800/week to $2,260/week, across 288 postings.

Benefits

24/7 recruiter and travel support
Assignment-specific orientation and ongoing clinical support
Guaranteed 36 hours per week with weekly pay
13-week assignment with potential extension opportunities
Credentialing and onboarding support
Continuous access to clinical resources and partner support throughout the assignment

The role and schedule

Floating: Floats to other units
Charting: Epic

The workplace

HealthForce Healthcare

Staffing partner

Staffing partner: HealthForce Healthcare

HealthForce Healthcare LLC is a healthcare staffing agency that places travel nurses in temporary assignments at hospitals and healthcare facilities across multiple states. The company operates as a travel nursing employer rather than a direct patient care facility, meaning nurses…

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Registered Nurse – PCU (Travel) position in Atlanta, Georgia. Float among PCU and IMCU floors providing direct bedside care to cardiac patient populations. Monitor cardiac rhythms, administer and titrate cardiac drips (Milrinone, Dobutamine) and vasopressors, manage telemetry data. Collaborate with cardiology teams, respond to STEMI/NSTEMI presentations. 13-week contract with 36 guaranteed hours per week on 2x3 Days shift. Start date 08/17/2026. Weekly pay $1,712–$1,795.

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In Atlanta, GA

Atlanta, GAFrom Census ACS 2024.

Living costs about the same as the US average

Median rent: $1,711/mo
Household income: $85,652/yr, all local households, not nurse pay

Life in Atlanta, GA

NeighborhoodsNurses and young professionals who want walkability cluster Inside the Perimeter in Midtown and Atlantic Station (condos, MARTA Red/Gold, roughly $400K–$700K+), West Midtown’s loft-and-restaurant corridor ($450K–$650K), Old Fourth Ward and Inman Park on the BeltLine Eastside Trail ($400K–$800K+), and more residential Virginia-Highland ($600K–$850K). Chamblee, east of Brookhaven with MARTA rail and Buford Highway, is a suburban-feel ITP option that stretches a dollar further than Buckhead, Sandy Springs, or Roswell. Grant Park near Zoo Atlanta buys historic houses and a 131-acre park at about $350K–$550K. OTP, Decatur offers a walkable square and top schools ($550K–$750K); East Cobb is the school-driven suburb with a possible ~30-minute Midtown drive off-peak; Fairburn, Stockbridge, and Fayetteville are named for affordability and ~30-minute Atlanta commutes; South Fulton (airport, Sweetwater Creek, Six Flags), Stone Mountain (~20 minutes east), and Ellenwood (about $285K median, Arabia Mountain) are the cheaper first-buyer rings.

Nurses and young professionals who want walkability cluster Inside the Perimeter in Midtown and Atlantic Station (condos, MARTA Red/Gold, roughly $400K–$700K+), West Midtown’s loft-and-restaurant corridor ($450K–$650K), Old Fourth Ward and Inman Park on the BeltLine Eastside Trail ($400K–$800K+), and more residential Virginia-Highland ($600K–$850K). Chamblee, east of Brookhaven with MARTA rail and Buford Highway, is a suburban-feel ITP option that stretches a dollar further than Buckhead, Sandy Springs, or Roswell.

Grant Park near Zoo Atlanta buys historic houses and a 131-acre park at about $350K–$550K. OTP, Decatur offers a walkable square and top schools ($550K–$750K); East Cobb is the school-driven suburb with a possible ~30-minute Midtown drive off-peak; Fairburn, Stockbridge, and Fayetteville are named for affordability and ~30-minute Atlanta commutes; South Fulton (airport, Sweetwater Creek, Six Flags), Stone Mountain (~20 minutes east), and Ellenwood (about $285K median, Arabia Mountain) are the cheaper first-buyer rings.

Sources

As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: centurycommunities.com Source 2: facebook.com Source 3: reddit.com Source 4: realpha.com Source 5: youtube.com

Getting aroundAtlanta is a collection of small cities, not a grid: MARTA’s Red, Gold, Blue, and Green rail lines serve dense corridors (Midtown, Atlantic Station, Chamblee) and leave most of the metro car-dependent, so a downtown or Midtown hospital commute is transformed by living on a rail line and defined by I-285 and I-85 traffic if you do not. Chamblee riders take heavy rail to Mercedes-Benz Stadium and park cheap at a MARTA station for Hartsfield-Jackson instead of airport lots; East Cobb clients have reported Midtown in as little as 30 minutes when they dodge peak; Fairburn, Stockbridge, and Fayetteville are recommended as ~30-minute Atlanta commutes. Elsewhere a drive that looks close on a map routinely doubles—Jefferson at 40 miles can be 60–90 minutes. On April 18, 2026 MARTA opened the Rapid A Line (5 miles, 14 stations, buses every 10–15 minutes) and redrew the bus network from 113 routes to 81 with more all-day frequency. Emory Healthcare, Piedmont Healthcare, and Northside Hospital are among the metro’s largest employers, so neighborhood choice relative to those campuses matters more than any citywide average.

Atlanta is a collection of small cities, not a grid: MARTA’s Red, Gold, Blue, and Green rail lines serve dense corridors (Midtown, Atlantic Station, Chamblee) and leave most of the metro car-dependent, so a downtown or Midtown hospital commute is transformed by living on a rail line and defined by I-285 and I-85 traffic if you do not. Chamblee riders take heavy rail to Mercedes-Benz Stadium and park cheap at a MARTA station for Hartsfield-Jackson instead of airport lots; East Cobb clients have reported Midtown in as little as 30 minutes when they dodge peak; Fairburn, Stockbridge, and Fayetteville are recommended as ~30-minute Atlanta commutes.

Elsewhere a drive that looks close on a map routinely doubles—Jefferson at 40 miles can be 60–90 minutes. On April 18, 2026 MARTA opened the Rapid A Line (5 miles, 14 stations, buses every 10–15 minutes) and redrew the bus network from 113 routes to 81 with more all-day frequency.

Emory Healthcare, Piedmont Healthcare, and Northside Hospital are among the metro’s largest employers, so neighborhood choice relative to those campuses matters more than any citywide average.

Sources

As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: realpha.com Source 2: youtube.com Source 3: facebook.com Source 4: thehonestlocal.com Source 5: youtube.com Source 6: getbellhops.com

OutdoorsThe Atlanta BeltLine is the daily outdoor spine: a 22-mile multi-use trail connecting 45 neighborhoods, with 16.7 miles paved as of June 2026 after Southside Trail segments 2 and 3 linked the Eastside and Westside trails (full loop funded through 2030; plan to walk and bike it, not ride the promised rail). Piedmont Park anchors Midtown; Grant Park’s 131 acres sit beside Zoo Atlanta. Stone Mountain Park covers 3,200 acres of trails, lake, and the carving about 20 minutes east; Sweetwater Creek State Park and Six Flags sit by South Fulton; Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area is the Ellenwood hike. Add the Atlanta Botanical Garden (15 acres of displays plus Storza Woods), Chattahoochee Nature Center and river trails, and Lake Lanier Islands for summer water-park days.

The Atlanta BeltLine is the daily outdoor spine: a 22-mile multi-use trail connecting 45 neighborhoods, with 16.7 miles paved as of June 2026 after Southside Trail segments 2 and 3 linked the Eastside and Westside trails (full loop funded through 2030; plan to walk and bike it, not ride the promised rail). Piedmont Park anchors Midtown; Grant Park’s 131 acres sit beside Zoo Atlanta.

Stone Mountain Park covers 3,200 acres of trails, lake, and the carving about 20 minutes east; Sweetwater Creek State Park and Six Flags sit by South Fulton; Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area is the Ellenwood hike. Add the Atlanta Botanical Garden (15 acres of displays plus Storza Woods), Chattahoochee Nature Center and river trails, and Lake Lanier Islands for summer water-park days.

Sources

As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: realpha.com Source 2: thehonestlocal.com Source 3: centurycommunities.com Source 4: isss.oie.gatech.edu Source 5: discoveratlanta.com Source 6: facebook.com

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Living in Atlanta

Atlanta is less one downtown than a ring of small cities inside and outside I-285—the City in a Forest, hip-hop capital, and civil-rights memorial town that still greets strangers. For a nurse, Emory, Piedmont, and Northside rank among the largest employers, so the real choice is rail versus asphalt: MARTA’s Red and Gold lines make Midtown, Atlantic Station, and Chamblee workable; elsewhere a map-short drive can double on I-85 or I-285. Off shift, walk the BeltLine (16.7 of 22 miles paved, Eastside and Westside now linked), Piedmont or Grant Park, or Stone Mountain’s 3,200 acres. Eat Buford Highway, North Highland, Westside Provisions, or Decatur’s square—eight Michelin stars and lemon-pepper-wet wings in one metro. Housing is not cheap: listings near $425,000, in-town condos from the $400,000s, Ellenwood and South Fulton the first-buyer math, rents around $1,540. You will likely own a car. Mild winters and patios from March into December are the pitch; traffic, uneven schools, and pocket-level safety are the tradeoffs. Live next to the hospital, not 40 miles out.

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Sources

As of 2026Source 1: realpha.com Source 2: thehonestlocal.com Source 3: youtube.com Source 4: atlanta.eater.com Source 5: getbellhops.com Source 6: centurycommunities.com Source 7: youtube.com

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Atlanta, GAFrom Census ACS 2024.