ICU Registered Nurse
San Francisco, CA
Cross Country Nurses
3x12 hrs, Nights
Referral Bonus

Job Summary

Registered Nurse Intensive Care Unit. This float-pool position provides critical care nursing for adult and geriatric patients across intensive care, progressive care, emergency, and post-anesthesia care settings. The role requires adaptability across departments and clinical specialties, with a focus on safe, evidence-based care for medically complex patients.

Job Details

• Required Qualifications: California Registered Nurse license in hand; Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree required; Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certifications from the American Heart Association (AHA); National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certification; minimum 2.5 years of recent adult medical-surgical critical care registered nursing experience; Level II trauma experience; teaching hospital experience; travel nursing experience.
• Preferred Qualifications: Experience in medical-surgical, cardiac, or neurological critical care; recent float-pool, post-anesthesia care unit, or emergency department experience; experience with electronic health record charting; experience managing complex critical care patients, ventilators, vasoactive medications, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, intra-aortic balloon pumps, ventricular assist devices, continuous renal replacement therapy, invasive monitoring, transplant care, and post-operative cardiac or neurological patients.
• Schedule: Night shifts consisting of three 12-hour shifts per week, totaling 36 hours per week; scheduling is based on operational need.
• Additional Information: This is a float-pool position rather than a unit-based assignment. The registered nurse may support intensive care, progressive care, emergency, and post-anesthesia care settings, with patient assignments of up to 3:1 in acute care, telemetry, and progressive care units. Orientation consists of 24 hours. Two references from the most recent employer are required at submission.

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