Travel Nurse RN - SICU - Surgical Intensive Care - $2,160 per week

About the role

Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Surgical Nursing position available in a healthcare facility in Peoria, Illinois. The role involves providing specialized patient care to post-surgical, trauma, and complex cases within a 13-bed ICU setting, with a focus on critical patient management, titrating drips, and interpreting telemetry strips. This is a short-term travel assignment.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialized care to post-surgical, trauma, and complex ICU patients
• Manage critical patient care, including titrating drips (pressors, sedation, paralytics, insulin)
• Interpret telemetry strips
• Adhere to patient ratios (typically 1:2, occasionally 1:1 or 1:3)
• Participate in float rotation as required; take a full team if floated to lower levels of care
• Work six weekends in a six-week period and every other holiday

Requirements

• Valid active Illinois RN license or confirmation that an application process has been initiated
• Certifications: BLS and ACLS (AHA)
• Minimum of 1 year of ICU surgical experience
• Experience with ICU, trauma, post-surgical, open abdomens, multi-system trauma, and endovascular patients
• Ability to titrate drips (pressors, sedation, paralytics, insulin)

Schedule

• 12-hour night shifts, 36 hours per week
• Assignment duration: 13 weeks (08/31/2026 to 11/30/2026)
• Six weekends in a six-week period
• Every other holiday

Department Details

• 13-bed Surgical Intensive Care Unit
• Nurse-to-patient ratios typically 1:2, occasionally 1:1 or 1:3
• Support staff: nurse aides/patient care techs (1:10 ratio)
• 24/7 in-house hospitalists and intensivists, with telemedicine ICU support
• Equipment: vents, CPAP, BiPAP
• Tele/monitor techs available to read monitors; nurses responsible for strip interpretation

Orientation

• 8 hours learning EPIC
• 8 hours with educator
• 4 hours shadowing
• 12 hours with a preceptor

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

Pay package is based on 12-hour shifts and 36 hours per week (subject to confirmation) with a tax-free stipend amount to be determined.