Travel CVICU RN - $2,165 per week

Specialty: CVICU • Discipline: RN • Start Date: 09/07/2026 • Duration: 13 weeks • 36 hours per week

About the role

The Registered Nurse is responsible for evaluating patients and assisting physicians with patient care.

• Plans, implements, and documents nursing care based on patient's needs.
• Identifies patient needs and determines priorities for care through assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation.
• Develops, implements and coordinates individualized plan of care for patients assigned through initial and on-going assessments.
• Initiates assessment based on the patient's problems or needs, the physician's medical diagnosis, and the functional health framework.
• Performs therapeutic nursing interventions.
• Manages care of patients.
• Documents care based on standards of care and practice, patient acuity, and/or clinical priorities.
• Advocates for evidence-based practice care standards and supports adoption of evidence-based practices and innovations in care delivery.
• Provides patient centric care in alignment with professional nursing practice model.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience working in Cardiovascular ICU required.
• Strong experience in telemetry, stepdown/surgical, thoracic, & vascular stepdown required.
• LVAD competency.
• Float requirement: Yes – to other ICUs.
• Experience with Balloon pump, CCRT, ECMO devices, cardiac outputs, SWAN, chest tubes, post cardiac surgery patients.
• Strong open-heart background.
• ASN required.
• NJ State Professional Registered Nurse license or multi-state compact license.
• BLS-AHA.
• ACLS-AHA.
• NIHSS.
• CEU Contact Stroke 4 Hours.
• Telemetry certification.

Preferred Qualifications

• BSN preferred.

Schedule

12-hour night shifts (7:00 PM – 7:30 AM), 3 shifts per week, every third weekend required. No holidays or on-call requirement.