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Local Contract Cardiac Stepdown RN - $51 per hour

Stability Healthcare

iconCape Girardeau, MO, US, 63705

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icon8 October 2025

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Local Contract Cardiac Stepdown RN - $51 per hour at Stability Healthcare summary:

This position is for a Local Contract Cardiac Stepdown Registered Nurse (RN) providing intermediate critical care in a Progressive Care Unit (PCU) setting. The role involves working 12-hour night shifts over a 13-week contract in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, focusing on cardiac stepdown nursing care between general and ICU levels. Benefits include a travel bonus, health insurance from day one, PTO accrual, guaranteed stipends, and extra pay for hours worked beyond the contract.

Stability Healthcare is seeking a local contract nurse RN Cardiac Stepdown for a local contract nursing job in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.

Job Description & Requirements
  • Specialty: Cardiac Stepdown
  • Discipline: RN
  • Start Date: 09/22/2025
  • 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 Cape Girardeau, MO. 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-776545. 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:

Cardiac Stepdown Nursing, Progressive Care Unit, Registered Nurse, Tele Step-Down RN, Critical Care, Local Contract Nursing, 12-hour Shifts, Travel Nursing, Patient Care, Healthcare Staffing