ICU Registered Nurse
Burlington, VT
Cross Country Nurses
3x12 hrs, Nights
Referral Bonus

Job Summary

Registered Nurse, Intensive Care Unit. The position provides critical care for complex patient populations and requires management of ventilators, multiple titrating drips, and advanced hemodynamic therapies. The assignment requires schedule flexibility, prior travel experience, and advanced intensive care expertise.

Job Details

• Schedule: Night shifts are 12 hours, with a minimum of 36 hours per week. Assignments are 1626 weeks and require schedule flexibility, including at least every other weekend.
• Required Qualifications: American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS); National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certification required before the start date; minimum of 2 years of experience; prior travel nursing experience; experience in a large teaching healthcare facility; critical care experience with ventilators, multiple titrating drips, multi-system disease, continuous renal replacement therapy, intra-aortic balloon pump support, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
• Preferred Qualifications: Critical Care Registered Nurse (CCRN) certification.
• Additional Information:
  • Provides care for post-cardiac surgery, vascular, level I trauma, general surgery, neurosurgery, and overflow medical intensive care populations.
  • Requires initiation of intravenous lines, management of multiple titrating drips, critical ventilator care, and advanced hemodynamic monitoring.
  • Schedule flexibility is required; block schedules are not available.
  • Biweekly orientation sessions are held on Mondays.
  • Solid-color scrubs 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