Stepdown Travel Nurse

This Stepdown travel nurse position in Saint Louis, Missouri, with Advantis Medical is a 13-week Travel Stepdown Registered Nurse (RN) contract at Kindred Hospital - St Louis South. This role pays $2,349 per week and follows a Nights shift with a 3x12 schedule.

In this Stepdown travel nursing role, you will provide progressive care in a hospital setting, assess and monitor patient conditions, support urgent interventions, document care accurately, and collaborate with physicians and the clinical care team during fast-moving patient situations.

Advantis Medical supports travel clinicians with streamlined credentialing to help with fast start dates, free license support and renewals, and Day 1 benefits.

Responsibilities

• Manage higher-acuity patients stepping down from intensive care who require close monitoring
• Monitor continuous telemetry and hemodynamic status, recognizing and escalating changes promptly
• Administer medications and IV therapy, including titratable drips approved for the unit, per facility protocol
• Care for patients on high-flow oxygen and non-invasive ventilation when assigned

Travel Nursing Requirements:

• 2 years of recent Stepdown nursing experience
• Active Missouri RN License

Kindred Hospital St. Louis South — St. Louis, MO

Kindred Hospital St. Louis South is a long-term acute care hospital (LTACH) — not a short-stay acute hospital — a roughly 89-bed specialty hospital (part of ScionHealth) that cares for medically complex patients needing an extended recovery, typically after an ICU stay. For nurses, the work centers on ventilator and respiratory management, complex wound care, and stabilizing chronically critically ill patients over longer lengths of stay. There is no emergency department, operating room, cath lab, or trauma service — the role here is complex/critical-care and chronic-critical-illness focused, not fast-turnover acute.

• Specializes in medically complex, post-ICU patients — ventilator management and weaning, respiratory failure, complex wounds, sepsis, stroke recovery, and congestive heart failure.
• Holds Joint Commission Certification in Respiratory Failure, with 24/7 physician or physician-extender coverage and around-the-clock respiratory therapy.
• Operates an intensive care unit for patients in critical condition, alongside long-length-of-stay medical/telemetry care.
• Delivers dialysis, IV antibiotic therapy, and pain management within an interdisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, and respiratory and rehabilitation therapists.
• Part of ScionHealth (formerly Kindred Healthcare); offers no emergency, surgical, or trauma services — a fit for nurses who want chronic-critical-care, ventilator, and wound experience rather than a conventional acute floor.

Benefits:

Salary : $2,349