ICU Registered Nurse
Globe, AZ
Cross Country Nurses
3x12 hrs, Nights
Referral Bonus

Job Summary

Intensive Care Unit (ICU) nursing position supporting a six-bed medical observation step-down unit. The role provides comprehensive care for post-surgical and high-acuity patients, including those experiencing respiratory failure, sepsis, diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), acute kidney injury (AKI), and unstable arrhythmias. The position requires strong critical care capabilities, including ventilator management, hemodynamic monitoring, medication titration, and complex line and tube management.

Job Details

• Schedule: Nights, 12-hour shifts, 36 hours per week.
• Required Qualifications: Critical care nursing experience; proficiency in initiating, titrating, and managing vasopressors, thrombolytics, antihypertensives, antidiabetics, and sedation; ventilator management; hemodynamic monitoring; telemetry monitoring and interpretation; sepsis management; central line, arterial line, and chest tube management; blood administration; and required influenza vaccination.
• Additional Information:
  • Patient population includes post-surgical patients, post-cardiac catheterization patients, and patients with respiratory failure, sepsis, diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), acute kidney injury (AKI), and unstable arrhythmias.
  • Clinical equipment includes medication infusion pumps, rapid infusers, bedside cardiac monitors, mechanical ventilators, bilevel positive airway pressure (BiPAP), continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), high-flow nasal cannula, and bladder scanners.
  • Staffing ratios include 2:1 for critical care, 4:1 for step-down care, and 6:1 for standard assignments.
  • Assignment dates are 11/23/2026 through 02/22/2027.

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