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Travel RN - Telemetry - Stepdown
Peoria, Illinois
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Posted Sep 10
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Schedule and commitments
- Term
- Travel
Pay and benefits
- Against the board
- In range for Illinois travel rolesIllinois travel postings that state pay run $1,800/week to $2,690/week, the middle half $1,980/week to $2,470/week, across 112 postings.
Do you qualify?
- License
- Active IL RN license required
- Certification
- BLS (AHA) certification required; ACLS recommended
- Experience
- Minimum 1 year of RN experience required
- Experience
- ICU or Intermediate/Stepdown experience with a 3:1 or 2:1 nurse-to-patient ratio required; progressive care or telemetry experience is not sufficient
- Experience
- Trach and vent experience required
- Experience
- Experience titrating drips required
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- Also asks
- Negative drug screen required for all panels as part of OSF's Drug-Free Campus policy
What's around it?
Living costs about 9% below the US average
- Median rent
- $1,005/mo
- Household income
- $59,410/yr, all local households, not nurse pay
- Staffing partner
- American Traveler
From Census ACS 2024.
About this role
Assignment Overview
- Shift: Nights, 3x12hrs
- Hours: 36 hrs/wk
- Start Date: Sep 28, 2026
- Length: 15 weeks
- Openings: 1
American Traveler is hiring an experienced RN for a Stepdown Care Unit position requiring ICU/Intermediate experience with trach and vent skills.
Details
- Acute care Stepdown Care Unit with 20 beds, including 8 private and the rest semi-private rooms
- Nurse to patient ratio of 3 to 1
- Care for patients with COPD, CHF, DM, sepsis, renal issues, DKA, alcohol withdrawal, overdoses, pneumonia, and other respiratory conditions, plus some neuro/surgical/cardiac cases
- Frequent care for patients on Bipap, Cpap, face mask ventilators, trachs, and ventilators, as well as chest tubes, g-tubes, NG tubes, PICC lines, and central lines
- RNs required to titrate drips including Cardene, Cardizem, Amio, Dobutamine, Heparin, and low-dose or infrequent Vasopressors
- Charge nurse and 24/7 house supervisor on each shift; charge nurse typically does not take an assignment unless staffing requires it
- 2 PCTs per shift, taking up to 10 patients each when the unit is full
- All patients on bedside Phillips monitors with tele techs interpreting strips and RNs confirming
- 12-hour night shifts, 7pm-7am, with block scheduling available
- Every other weekend required (Fri/Sat for nights, Sat/Sun for days)
- Every other holiday rotation, including the companion day of major holidays
- No call or standby requirements
- Travel RNs float first, potentially to ICU (with sufficient ICU experience), other Stepdown units, or Gen Med, with patient assignments adjusted accordingly
- Uses EPIC EMR
Requirements
- Active IL RN license required
- BLS (AHA) certification required; ACLS recommended
- Minimum 1 year of RN experience required
- ICU or Intermediate/Stepdown experience with a 3:1 or 2:1 nurse-to-patient ratio required; progressive care or telemetry experience is not sufficient
- Trach and vent experience required
- Experience titrating drips required
- Negative drug screen required for all panels as part of OSF's Drug-Free Campus policy
Application details and notices
Additional Information
- Provide direct patient care in a fast-paced stepdown environment with a diverse and medically complex patient population
- Collaborate with charge nurses, house supervisors, and PCTs to ensure quality patient care
- Unit-specific orientation includes 1 day of EPIC training, 1 day of unit orientation with an educator, and 1 day on the floor with an RN
- Any scrub color permitted
- Local candidates within 50 miles of the facility are eligible for a local pay rate
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How this role fits you
About the employer
American Traveler
Staffing partner
On your path
Telemetry is open from year one. One of the most open front doors in acute care; ACLS and rhythm.
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- Can you walk me through differentials?
- What should I expect for shifts and weekly hours?
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- What preceptor time and ongoing unit support are included?
- How are floating and staffing support handled day to day?