Neuro ICU RN
Newburgh, IN
Cross Country Nurses
3x12 hrs, Days
Referral Bonus

Job Summary

Intensive Care Unit Neurological nursing position. The registered nurse will provide care for general intensive care, post-stroke, sepsis, diabetic ketoacidosis, respiratory distress, and other complex neurological and critical care patients. The role requires strong neurological assessment, critical thinking, ventilator management, cardiac drip management, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Job Details

• Schedule: Day shifts consisting of 12-hour shifts, 36 hours per week. The schedule includes three weekends in every six-week period and every other holiday.
• Assignment Dates: 11/16/202602/14/2027.
• Required Qualifications: Current active compact registered nurse license; Associate Degree or certificate; American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS); American Heart Association (AHA) Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS); National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS); at least 2 years of registered nurse experience, including 1 full year of intensive care unit experience, 1 travel assignment, and trauma Level II experience; recent EPIC charting experience; strong neurological assessment skills; dysphagia screening; telemetry and 12-lead electrocardiogram interpretation; endotracheal tube and ventilator management; initiation and titration of sedatives, paralytics, cardiac drips, and vasoactive medications; and sepsis protocol experience.
• Preferred Qualifications: Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), tissue plasminogen activator (tPa) administration and assessments, and massive transfusion experience.
• Additional Information: Patient populations include general intensive care, post-stroke, continuous renal replacement therapy, sepsis, diabetic ketoacidosis, post-code care, respiratory distress, neurological drains, biopsies, and ventriculostomy. Responsibilities may include caring for increasingly acute neurological patients after unit orientation, managing external ventriculostomy devices, completing telemetry testing, and precepting students or new hires. The unit supports a typical nurse-to-patient ratio of 1:3 during the day and maintains a collaborative, team-oriented clinical environment. Navy blue scrubs without competing health system or agency logos are required.

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