Care Career is seeking a travel nurse RN Med Surg for a travel nursing job in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Med Surg
- Discipline: RN
- Start Date: 12/07/2026
- Duration: 13 weeks
- 48 hours per week
- Shift: 12 hours, days
- Employment Type: Travel
RN – Tele/Step-Down
Shift: Day | 4x12-Hour | 7:00 AM–7:30 PM
Schedule: Every other weekend
Duration: 13 weeks
Guaranteed Hours: 36 or 48 hours/week
Call: No
Floating: Yes, within scope to meet facility needs
Block Schedule: No
Local Candidates: Not accepted within 75 miles
Position Details
- Specialty: Tele/Step-Down RN
- Experience Required: 2 years
- Patient Ratio: 1:4–5
- Patient Population: Adults
- Daily Census: 32
- Unit Beds: 32
- Charting: EPIC
- Facility: Short-Term Acute Care
- Facility Type: Magnet & Teaching Hospital
- Trauma: Level I Trauma Center
- Staffed Beds: 1,266
- Scrubs: Navy Blue
Required Certifications
Required Experience & Skills
- Telemetry/Step-Down experience
- EKG/EKG interpretation
- Cardiac drips
- Cardiac telemetry
- Interpretation and management of dysrhythmias
- Central line and PICC management
- Chest tubes
- CBI
- Heparin protocols
- IV insulin protocols
- Pacemaker/AICD care
- Post-cardiac catheterization care
- Pre/Post cardiac surgery
- Starting and maintaining IVs
- TR Band
- Wound care/Wound VAC
- Oxygen administration
- Blood product administration
Important: Candidates may be screened if any required skills are missing. A Relias EKG test is required.
Common Patient Diagnoses
- CHF
- Arrhythmias / A-fib / A-flutter
- ACS / STEMI / NSTEMI
- Heart valve disease
- CAD
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Hypertensive crisis
- Chest pain, shortness of breath, syncope
- Pacemaker/AICD malfunction
- Acute renal failure
Procedures & Services
- Cardiac catheterization
- Pacemaker/AICD placement
- Echocardiogram
- Treadmill and nuclear stress tests
- Cardiac MRI/CT
- Cardioversion/Ablation
- Carotid Doppler
- Pulmonary function testing
- Anti-arrhythmic drug loading
RTO & Compliance
- Maximum 7 days of RTO per 13-week contract
- All RTO must be finalized at submission
- No RTO during the first week
- Pending license accepted
- No COVID vaccine required
- Flu vaccine required; medical/religious exemptions allowed
- Compliance deadline: 3 PM CST on the Monday before the week of start
- Labs required within 48–72 hours of signing
- Travelers must meet fit-testing requirements
- Modules required before start
Start Date: Approximately 3–4 weeks out based on compliance tier.
About Care Career
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Benefits
- Referral bonus
- Weekly pay
- Medical benefits
- Continuing Education
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits