ICU Registered Nurse
Springfield, OR
Cross Country Nurses
3x12 hrs, Nights
Referral Bonus

Job Summary

Registered Nurse, Intensive Care Unit. This travel position provides critical care nursing for adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients requiring advanced cardiovascular and multisystem care. The role includes night-shift coverage, a 3x12 schedule, and floating across intensive care and acute care areas according to operational needs.

Job Details

• Required Qualifications: Minimum 2 years of registered nursing experience, including 1 year of recent intensive care experience; Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU) experience required; Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), and National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certifications required; 1 year of Epic experience required; experience interpreting and managing dysrhythmias, managing multisystem organ failure, administering intravenous insulin protocols, managing arterial and central lines, administering blood products, starting intravenous lines, providing continuous intravenous sedation, titrating cardiac and vasoactive infusions, managing ventilated patients, assisting with BiPAP and CPAP, interpreting arterial blood gases, performing suctioning, managing ventilators, maintaining infection prevention and isolation precautions, performing phlebotomy, and caring for surgical wounds with drains or wound vacuums.
• Preferred Qualifications: Travel nursing experience; experience with Level I or Level II trauma care; experience with coronary artery bypass graft procedures, cardiac assist devices, intra-aortic balloon pumps, continuous renal replacement therapy, therapeutic hypothermia, transvenous and epicardial pacemakers, pulmonary artery catheters, chest tubes, tracheostomies, massive transfusion protocols, and post-cardiac surgery care.
• Schedule: Night shifts, 12 hours per shift, 3 shifts per week, with a minimum of 36 hours per week; weekend scheduling may vary according to unit needs.
• Float: Float rotation may be required.
• Additional Information: Patient ratios are approximately 1:2. Floating may include the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit, Neurotrauma Intensive Care Unit, telemetry, acute care, observation, and emergency department boarding. Clinical responsibilities may include care for open-heart surgery, myocardial infarction, trauma, neurological conditions, respiratory distress, diabetic ketoacidosis, sepsis, gastrointestinal bleeding, overdose, and post-surgical patients. The role may also involve chest tube insertion, central line and peripherally inserted central catheter procedures, bedside tracheostomy care, intraosseous access, emergency response, intubation support, and cardiac cooling procedures.

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