ICU Registered Nurse
San Francisco, CA
Cross Country Nurses
3x12 hrs, Days
Referral Bonus

Job Summary

Registered Nurse, Intensive Care Unit, Location not specified. This position supports a mixed medical-surgical critical care unit caring for critically ill adult patients requiring advanced monitoring and intervention. The role includes managing high-acuity patients, ventilated patients, vasoactive infusions, continuous renal replacement therapy, invasive monitoring, and complex postoperative and neurological conditions.

Job Details

• Schedule: Day shifts consisting of 12 hours per shift, with a minimum of 36 hours per week.
• Required Qualifications: California registered nurse license; Basic Life Support (BLS); Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS); National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS); Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC); at least two years of experience; experience with the Epic charting system.
• Preferred Qualifications: Previous charge nurse experience.
• Additional Information:
  • Initial orientation includes 24 hours of training, with the first week potentially completed at an orientation site before transitioning to the assigned unit.
  • Weekend coverage is required every other weekend, with on-call availability as needed.
  • Floating may occur based on census and staffing needs to units within the registered nurses scope of practice.
  • Patient care includes medical, surgical, and trauma critical care, sepsis, septic shock, respiratory failure, acute respiratory distress syndrome, multi-organ failure, postoperative critical care, gastrointestinal bleeding, diabetic ketoacidosis, acute renal failure, withdrawal syndromes, neurological emergencies, and critical care overflow patients.
  • Clinical responsibilities include ventilator management, vasoactive infusion titration, continuous renal replacement therapy, arterial and central line management, invasive hemodynamic monitoring, chest tube care, targeted temperature management, rapid response follow-up, and care of critically ill patients requiring intensive monitoring.
  • Equipment includes bedside monitors, ventilators, continuous renal replacement therapy machines, intravenous smart pumps, feeding pumps, arterial pressure monitoring equipment, central venous monitoring equipment, bladder scanners, portable procedure ultrasound, and specialty critical care beds.

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