American Traveler is hiring an experienced RN for a PACU position requiring critical care experience and a TN or compact RN license. This role comes through American Traveler, a staffing partner, so ask which facility you would land in.
Posted Oct 5
Shift and hours
Days · 3x12hrs36 hours a week
Unit and setting
Recovery Room/PACU · Hospital Recovery Room/PACU unit on day shift, 3x12s, 7:30 AM to 8:00 PM, with flexibility required
License
RN license Active RN license (TN or Compact) required
BLS certificationCurrent BLS, ACLS, and PALS certifications required
Certification
ACLS certification
Certification
PALS certification
Experience
1 year of recent critical care experience (PACU, ICU, or ED)Minimum 1 year of recent critical care experience (PACU, ICU, or ED) required
Experience
Critical care experience (PACU, ICU, or ED)
Also asks
Certifications must not expire within first 30 days of assignment startCertifications must not expire within the first 30 days of assignment start
Also asks
No employment gaps of 90 days or more within past 12 monthsNo employment gaps of 90 days or more within the past 12 months
Also asks
Must reside more than 50 miles from the facilityMust reside more than 50 miles from the facility; local candidates not considered
Also asks
Cannot have worked as permanent staff at any CHS facility within past 2 yearsCandidates who worked as permanent staff at any CHS facility within the past 2 years will not be considered
What it pays
Against similar roles
In range for Tennessee travel rolesTennessee travel postings that state pay run $1,720/week to $2,600/week, the middle half $1,860/week to $2,400/week, across 144 postings.
Benefits
BenefitsScrubs providedScrubs provided
Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Life Insurance
Housing Subsidy
Weekly Payroll
More benefits (4)
Referral Bonus
Licensure Reimbursement
Travel Allowances
Continuing Education
The role and schedule
Charting
Cerner-SurgiNetUses Cerner-SurgiNet EMR
Floating
No float requirementNo float requirement
Care model
Total patient careProvides total patient care
Hours stated
7:30 AM to 8:00 PM
Weekends
Weekends required
On call
One night per week from 8 PM to 7 AM and one 24-hour weekend call per 6-week scheduleCall requirements include one night per week from 8 PM to 7 AM and one 24-hour weekend call (Saturday or Sunday) per 6-week schedule
Start
Oct 19, 2026Start Date: Oct 19, 2026
Details
No block schedulingNo block scheduling
Details
RTO requests must be less than 1 weekRTO requests must be less than 1 week
Neighborhoods+Cedar Bluff is the West Knoxville base nurses and young professionals actually use: 2-bedroom apartments run about $1,400-$1,700, with medical offices, West Town Mall, and Turkey Creek a few minutes away and a 10-15 minute I-40 or Kingston Pike run downtown. Bearden (median sale about $372,000) and West Hills (about $537,500) offer tree-lined suburban streets that also feed Pellissippi Parkway toward Oak Ridge; Sequoyah Hills is the river-view premium tier near $697,500 with Sequoyah Park. Downtown and Fourth & Gill are the walkable central pair, with median rents about $1,013 and $802. Budget and outdoor-oriented movers look at Oakwood, Old North Knoxville, and South Knoxville; Farragut’s rolling hills, plus Maryville and Dandridge, come up when people want a quieter or cheaper ring.
Cedar Bluff is the West Knoxville base nurses and young professionals actually use: 2-bedroom apartments run about $1,400-$1,700, with medical offices, West Town Mall, and Turkey Creek a few minutes away and a 10-15 minute I-40 or Kingston Pike run downtown. Bearden (median sale about $372,000) and West Hills (about $537,500) offer tree-lined suburban streets that also feed Pellissippi Parkway toward Oak Ridge; Sequoyah Hills is the river-view premium tier near $697,500 with Sequoyah Park.
Downtown and Fourth & Gill are the walkable central pair, with median rents about $1,013 and $802. Budget and outdoor-oriented movers look at Oakwood, Old North Knoxville, and South Knoxville; Farragut’s rolling hills, plus Maryville and Dandridge, come up when people want a quieter or cheaper ring.
Getting around+Most West Knoxville rentals sit 10-15 minutes from downtown on I-40 or Kingston Pike; metro-wide average commute is about 20 minutes. The west-side cluster—Cedar Bluff, Bearden, West Hills—uses Pellissippi Parkway, Kingston Pike, I-40/75, and Alcoa Highway, which also reach Oak Ridge about 22 miles northwest. Knoxville is car-dependent, with limited public transit, growing congestion, and ample complex parking in West Knoxville; Cedar Bluff’s medical centers and offices can shrink a healthcare commute to minutes, though sources do not name hospital-specific routes or bus lines.
Most West Knoxville rentals sit 10-15 minutes from downtown on I-40 or Kingston Pike; metro-wide average commute is about 20 minutes. The west-side cluster—Cedar Bluff, Bearden, West Hills—uses Pellissippi Parkway, Kingston Pike, I-40/75, and Alcoa Highway, which also reach Oak Ridge about 22 miles northwest.
Knoxville is car-dependent, with limited public transit, growing congestion, and ample complex parking in West Knoxville; Cedar Bluff’s medical centers and offices can shrink a healthcare commute to minutes, though sources do not name hospital-specific routes or bus lines.
Outdoors+Knoxville’s Urban Wilderness is a 1,000-acre oasis two miles from downtown with more than 50 miles of hiking and mountain-bike trails and Mead’s Quarry for paddleboarding. Sequoyah Park and the Sequoyah Hills Greenway follow the river; Zoo Knoxville and Navitat Canopy Adventures cover family days and ziplines. The Tennessee River and Great Smoky Mountains National Park shape weekends, with Norris Dam State Park about 20 miles north.
Knoxville’s Urban Wilderness is a 1,000-acre oasis two miles from downtown with more than 50 miles of hiking and mountain-bike trails and Mead’s Quarry for paddleboarding. Sequoyah Park and the Sequoyah Hills Greenway follow the river; Zoo Knoxville and Navitat Canopy Adventures cover family days and ziplines.
The Tennessee River and Great Smoky Mountains National Park shape weekends, with Norris Dam State Park about 20 miles north.
Knoxville—Scruffy City on the Tennessee River—is the practical East Tennessee base for a nurse who wants mountains, a real downtown, and prices still below the national average, with no state income tax. Most relocating clinicians land in West Knoxville. Cedar Bluff puts medical offices, West Town Mall, and Turkey Creek a few minutes away, 2-bedrooms around $1,400-$1,700, and downtown 10-15 minutes via I-40 or Kingston Pike. Bearden and West Hills trade a bit of convenience for trees and a Pellissippi Parkway path toward Oak Ridge, about 22 miles northwest. Off-shift life is Market Square (JC Holdway, Radius rooftop), the Tennessee and Bijou theatres, UT football in 101,915-seat Neyland Stadium, and the 1,000-acre Urban Wilderness plus Mead’s Quarry two miles from downtown. Tradeoffs are blunt: you need a car, traffic is growing, sales tax is about 9.25%, housing is climbing, summers are hot and humid, and pollen is heavy. Crime is block-by-block, not citywide—Downtown and Fourth & Gill grade relatively safe; Hardin Valley and Farragut are the school play. Pick the neighborhood, not the headline.
