ICU Registered Nurse
Tyler, TX
Cross Country Nurses
3x12 hrs, Nights
Referral Bonus

Job Summary

Intensive Care Unit location not provided. The position supports adult and geriatric patients in a medical-surgical intensive care setting on 12-hour night shifts. Responsibilities include managing complex critical-care conditions, ventilated patients, invasive monitoring, vasoactive medications, and a typical patient ratio of 1:2.

Job Details

• Schedule: Night shifts consisting of 12-hour shifts, with a minimum of 36 hours per week.
• Required Qualifications:
  • Two years of intensive-care experience
  • Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)
  • Basic Life Support (BLS)
  • National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS)
  • Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
  • Epic charting experience
  • Experience managing a patient ratio of 1:2 to 1:3
  • State or compact licensure in hand at the time of submission
• Preferred Qualifications:
  • Travel experience
  • Previous charge experience
  • Community hospital experience
  • Long-term acute-care hospital experience
  • Level I or Level II trauma experience
• Additional Information:
  • Provides care for adult and geriatric patients with diagnoses including cardiac arrest, respiratory failure, acute kidney injury, endocarditis, septic shock, cirrhosis, gastrointestinal bleeding, pulmonary embolism, small bowel obstruction, cardiogenic shock, and ST-elevation myocardial infarction.
  • Clinical responsibilities include ventilator management, continuous renal replacement therapy, arterial and central-line management, blood-product administration, chest-tube care, dysrhythmia management, neurological monitoring, sedation management, and titration of cardiac and vasoactive medications.
  • The unit includes support from physical therapy, respiratory services, interpretation services, phlebotomy, radiology, social services, rapid-response teams, pharmacy, and transportation.
  • Orientation includes 24 hours.

Benefits

The benefits of taking a travel assignment with Cross Country include:

• 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