ICU Registered Nurse
Durango, CO
Cross Country Nurses
3x12 hrs, Nights
Referral Bonus

Job Summary

Registered Nurse, Intensive Care Unit Location not specified. This acute-care role supports patients in a combination intensive care setting, including medical, surgical, trauma, and cardiovascular intensive care. The position requires expertise in managing high-acuity patients, titrating critical infusions, interpreting telemetry, and supporting respiratory needs.

Job Details

• Schedule: Nights, 12-hour shifts, 36 hours per week.
• Required Qualifications: At least 2 years of intensive care unit experience; active nursing license required for submission; Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), Basic Life Support (BLS), National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS), Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course (ENPC) or Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), and Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC) certifications.
• Preferred Qualifications: Prior travel nursing experience preferred. First-time travelers require at least 3 years of intensive care unit experience and Epic charting experience.
• Additional Information:
  • Patient assignments generally range from 1:1 to 1:2 based on acuity and may flex to 1:3 for high-acuity patients.
  • Experience with continuous renal replacement therapy, intra-aortic balloon pumps, Impella devices, and other advanced critical-care therapies is expected.
  • Nurses must be comfortable titrating pressors, sedation, paralytics, antiarrhythmics, heparin, insulin, and other critical infusions.
  • Nurses are expected to assist with respiratory needs and manage patients requiring ventilators, continuous positive airway pressure, bilevel positive airway pressure, high-flow oxygen, and breathing treatments.
  • Nurses are responsible for reading and interpreting their own telemetry strips.
  • Orientation generally includes 12 days with a preceptor.
  • Weekend scheduling includes approximately 69 weekend shifts within a six-week schedule.
  • Holiday rotation participation may be required, and call or standby coverage is rare and generally related to low census.

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