ICU Registered Nurse
Decatur, IL
Cross Country Nurses
3x12 hrs, Nights
Referral Bonus

Job Summary

Registered Nurse, Intensive Care Unit Nights. The position provides critical care nursing for adult patients with complex cardiac, vascular, respiratory, neurological, and renal conditions. The role requires cardiac intensive care experience or significant cardiac experience, with responsibility for advanced monitoring, emergency response, ventilator management, and medication titration.

Job Details

• Required Qualifications: Minimum 2 years of experience; active Illinois nursing license in hand; Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), Basic Life Support (BLS), and National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certifications; experience interpreting and managing dysrhythmias, obtaining 12-lead electrocardiograms, and providing pre- and post-cardiac catheterization or intervention care; experience with acute and chronic renal failure, arterial lines, central lines, peripherally inserted central catheters, blood product administration, intravenous therapy, continuous intravenous sedation, emergency medications, cardiac and vasoactive medication titration, cerebrovascular accident and acute stroke management, ventilated patient care, high-flow nasal cannula, arterial blood gas interpretation, suctioning, ventilator management, infection prevention, isolation precautions, personal protective equipment use, and code blue or rapid response situations.
• Preferred Qualifications: Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU) nursing experience; experience with cardiac devices and procedures, including Impella support, intra-aortic balloon pump management, temporary pacing, epicardial pacing wires, chest tubes, hypothermia protocols, defibrillation, and cardiac catheterization recovery.
• Schedule: Night shifts from 6:00 PM to 6:30 AM, 36 hours per week; every other weekend required.
• Additional Information: The unit includes 20 rooms and beds with typical patient assignments of 1:2. Patient care may include cardiac chest pain, congestive heart failure, atrial fibrillation, non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction, dysrhythmias, post-cardiac interventions, ablations, cardiogenic shock, syncope, stroke, respiratory failure, pulmonary embolism, renal failure, and gastrointestinal bleeding. Clinical responsibilities may include telemetry monitoring, intubation, chest tube care, temporary pacing, defibrillation, ventilator support, and management of advanced cardiac and respiratory support equipment.

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