ICU Registered Nurse
Kansas City, MO
Cross Country Nurses
3x12 hrs, Nights
Referral Bonus

Job Summary
Intensive Care Unit (ICU) - Kansas City, MO. This ICU role involves managing trauma patients, post-operative surgical patients, stroke patients, and those requiring ventilator and hemodynamic support in a Level 1 Trauma Center and Comprehensive Stroke Center. The position emphasizes advanced skills in ventilator management, hemodynamic monitoring, chest tube care, and cardiac rhythm identification.

Job Details

• Schedule: Nights, 12-hour shifts, minimum of 36 hours per week.
• Certification and Education Requirements: ACLS, BLS, NIH Stroke Scale (preferred but not required).
• Experience: 2 years of ICU experience required, with a minimum of 0 years of experience necessary.
• Responsibilities: Management of trauma and post-op surgical patients, ventilator and hemodynamic support, chest tube care, stroke patient management, procedural skills including chest tube placement, ventriculostomy, CRRT, therapeutic hypothermia, ECMO, arterial and central line placement.
• Certifications Required: ACLS, BLS, NIHSS.
• Dress Code: Navy or black scrub bottoms and navy, white, or black scrub tops and jackets; solid colors only.
• Additional Information: Unit staffed for optimal patient care with specialized equipment, including documentation systems, and a focus on patient experience and safety.

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