ICU Registered Nurse
Hendersonville, NC
Cross Country Nurses
3x12 hrs, Nights
Referral Bonus

Job Summary

Clinical Nurse, Intensive Care Unit. The Clinical Nurse coordinates and delivers patient care using the nursing process in a complex critical care environment. The role supports patients with life-threatening medical and surgical conditions, including respiratory failure, septic shock, hemodynamic instability, and post-operative complications, while collaborating with an interdisciplinary care team.

Job Details

• Schedule: Night shift from 6:45 p.m. to 7:15 a.m.; 12-hour shifts with a minimum of 36 hours per week.
• Required Qualifications: Active Registered Nurse licensure in North Carolina or a compact state; Basic Life Support (BLS) certification; Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification; National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certification; completion of the Advanced Intensive Care Unit Arrhythmia Exam within seven days of position acceptance.
• Preferred Qualifications: One year of experience working as a Registered Nurse in an acute care or inpatient hospital setting.
• Additional Information:
  • Provides comprehensive care for patients with complex medical and surgical diagnoses in a general critical care environment.
  • Manages ventilators, invasive hemodynamic monitoring, continuous renal replacement therapy when applicable, and multiple vasoactive and sedative infusions.
  • Uses clinical judgment to prioritize care for rapidly changing patient conditions.
  • Collaborates with intensivists, advanced practice providers, respiratory therapy, pharmacy, patients, and families.
  • Documents care plans, nursing interventions, patient responses, education, safety needs, and discharge planning.
  • Promotes infection control, cultural competency, patient advocacy, and a safe care environment.
  • Maintains required competencies and completes annual competency assessments.

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