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Local Contract Travel Registered Nurse (PCU/Stepdown) - $55 per hour

Stability Healthcare

iconSpringfield, IL, US, 62777

iconContractor

icon8 October 2025

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Local Contract Travel Registered Nurse (PCU/Stepdown) - $55 per hour at Stability Healthcare summary:

A Local Contract Travel Registered Nurse specializing in Progressive Care Unit (PCU) provides skilled nursing care in step-down units bridging general care and ICU levels. The role involves 12-hour night shifts over a 13-week contract focused on critical care support in Springfield, Illinois. Benefits include health insurance from day one, PTO accrual, guaranteed hours, travel bonuses, and stipend incentives for extra hours or facility call-offs.

Stability Healthcare is seeking a local contract nurse RN PCU - Progressive Care Unit for a local contract nursing job in Springfield, Illinois.

Job Description & Requirements
  • Specialty: PCU - Progressive Care Unit
  • Discipline: RN
  • Start Date: 09/15/2025
  • Duration: 13 weeks
  • 36 hours per week
  • Shift: 12 hours, nights
  • Employment Type: Local Contract

Stability Healthcare is looking for a Tele Step-Down RN contract position in Springfield, IL. The PCU nurse is sometimes also called a step-down nurse and the PCU is also known as cardiac stepdown, medical stepdown, neuro stepdown, surgical stepdown and ER holding. PCU nursing jobs traditionally operate between the levels of general and ICU care, and more recently, in the field of critical care, as well.

*$600 travel bonus *Day 1 health insurance with United Healthcare *PTO plan -- start accruing on day 1, use during contract or cash out at the end! *Guaranteed stipend if facility calls you off *Extra hour bonus -- earn an additional hourly bonus for working over your weekly contracted hours

Stability Job ID #L-772792. Pay package is based on 12 hour shifts and 36 hours per week (subject to confirmation) with tax-free stipend amount to be determined. Posted job title: Tele Step-Down

About Stability Healthcare

Stability Healthcare was founded in 2009, with the mission of becoming the best Travel Nursing Agency in California. We have been rated one of the top travel nursing agencies and offer our nurses the highest paying travel nursing jobs available. We have access to the best travel assignments from 1000’s of facilities.

You can start the year off in sunny California, spend the Spring in the Colorado Rockies, enjoy the Summer in the Mid-West, experience the change of seasons in Boston and New York, and hit the beaches of Florida in the winter. Our Nurses work in the best hospitals and health systems in the country.

Benefits
  • Guaranteed Hours
  • Benefits start day 1

Keywords:

travel nurse, registered nurse, progressive care unit, step-down nurse, critical care, contract nursing, night shift nurse, PCU nursing, healthcare staffing, patient care