ICU Registered Nurse
Long Beach, CA
Cross Country Nurses
3x12 hrs, Days
Referral Bonus

Job Summary

Registered Nurse, Intensive Care Unit Long Beach, California. This position provides critical care nursing services for adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients in a high-acuity setting. The role requires two years of experience, travel nursing experience, specialized critical care competencies, and collaboration with interdisciplinary support services.

Job Details

• Schedule: Day shifts, 12 hours per shift, 36 hours per week, scheduled as three 12-hour shifts from 7:00 AM to 7:30 PM. Weekend coverage includes four weekend shifts per four-week schedule, and at least two of the three major holidays are required. No on-call coverage is required.
• Required Qualifications:
  • Registered Nurse with two years of required experience, including two years of non-travel staff experience
  • Travel nursing experience required
  • Intensive Care Unit experience required
  • Level I trauma experience required
  • Charting system experience required, with experience using EPIC
  • California nursing license in hand
  • Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), Basic Life Support (BLS), and National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certifications required
  • Ability to care for adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients
  • Ability to float to Medical-Surgical and emergency department holding areas, including assignments with a 1:5 patient ratio
• Additional Information:
  • Provides care for critically ill patients requiring ventilator management, central line care, arterial line management, continuous intravenous sedation, vasoactive medication titration, cardiac medication titration, blood product administration, and management of acute stroke and multisystem organ dysfunction
  • Responsibilities may include continuous renal replacement therapy, external ventricular drain and intracranial pressure monitoring, chest tube care, post-neurosurgical management, spinal cord injury care, procedural sedation, and hypothermia protocols
  • Required clinical skills include dysrhythmia interpretation and management, arterial blood gas interpretation, noninvasive and invasive respiratory support, infection prevention, isolation precautions, intravenous insulin protocols, phlebotomy, peripherally inserted central catheter management, and intravenous access
  • Interdisciplinary support includes physical therapy, respiratory services, interpretation services, phlebotomy, radiology, social services, rapid response teams, pharmacy, and unit secretary support
  • Flu vaccination is required; medical and religious exemptions are accepted

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