Travel ICU Registered Nurse - $2,270 per week
Specialty: ICU - Intensive Care Unit • Discipline: RN • Duration: 22 weeks • 36 hours per week • Shift: 12 hours, days • Employment Type: Travel
About the role
Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Nursing position in a mixed acuity facility. The role involves caring for critically ill and progressive patients, including ventilated individuals, and initiating and titrating IV drips such as vasopressors, sedation, and paralytics. The position requires flexibility to float across ICU, progressive, and medical-surgical units, with a focus on patient stabilization and monitoring for diagnoses like sepsis, respiratory failure, renal failure, myocardial infarctions, pulmonary embolism, and pneumonia.
Responsibilities
- Care for ventilated patients and assist with intubations and line placements
- Manage patients with diagnoses including sepsis, respiratory failure, renal failure, myocardial infarctions, pulmonary embolism, and pneumonia
- Float rotation may be required across ICU, progressive, and Medsurg units, maintaining a 1:2 or 1:3 nurse-to-patient ratio depending on patient acuity
- Wear Caribbean blue scrubs with black, white, or Caribbean blue jackets
Schedule
Three 12-hour shifts per week, with a traditional weekday plus weekend rotation, totaling a minimum of 36 hours per week.
Requirements
- Valid Indiana Registered Nurse (RN) license
- ACLS (American Heart Association) and BLS (American Heart Association) certifications
- Minimum of 1.5 years of ICU experience (2 years preferred)
- Experience with Phillips heart monitors, Epic electronic medical records system, Pyxis medication dispensing, EKG machines, and dopplers
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in Level 1 or Level 2 facilities
- Travel experience
Onboarding
- Policy review and Epic training
- One-day unit orientation
Benefits
- Private housing or generous housing allowance
- Comprehensive health insurance with prescription coverage
- Dependent health insurance with prescription coverage
- Competitive salaries
- Referral bonuses
- Travel reimbursement
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Direct deposit/free checking
- Unlimited free CE credits