PICU Registered Nurse
Tacoma, WA
Cross Country Nurses
3x12 hrs, Nights
Referral Bonus

Job Summary

Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) Location information was not provided. This travel assignment supports predominantly pediatric cardiac intensive care patients, with potential care for general pediatric intensive care patients across cardiac, respiratory, neurological, surgical, and medical conditions. The role requires strong critical-thinking, time-management, communication, and clinical care skills in a fast-paced intensive care environment.

Job Details

• Schedule: Nights; 12-hour shifts from 7:00 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. or 7:00 p.m. to 7:30 a.m.; 36 hours per week.
• Required Qualifications: At least 2 years of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) experience; Basic Life Support (BLS) certification; Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification.
• Preferred Qualifications: Pediatric cardiac intensive care experience preferred. Experience with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, peritoneal dialysis, continuous renal replacement therapy, and Prismax is preferred but not required.
• Additional Information:
  • Care may include congenital heart defects, postoperative cardiac patients, catheterization recovery, cardiac failure, cardiomyopathy, myocarditis, cardiac arrest recovery, respiratory conditions, trauma, surgical patients, neurological patients, and patients requiring chemotherapy.
  • Clinical responsibilities may include aseptic and sterile technique, dressing changes, ventilator and tracheostomy management, suctioning, gastric, gastrojejunostomy, and jejunostomy tube care, nasogastric tube management, chest tubes, epidurals, patient-controlled analgesia pumps, medication infusion management, urinary catheter care, central line care and blood draws, peripheral laboratory draws, and patient discharges.
  • The assignment may involve patients from infancy through young adulthood, with care predominantly focused on pediatric cardiac intensive care.
  • First-time travelers are accepted.
  • Weekend rotation is every other weekend unless otherwise arranged.
  • No regular on-call requirement; low-census standby may be used for a later portion of the shift.
  • Assignment dates are 11/30/2026 through 02/27/2027.

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