ICU Registered Nurse
Twin Falls, ID
Cross Country Nurses
3x12 hrs, Days
Referral Bonus

Job Summary

Registered Nurse, Intensive Care Unit (ICU) specialty. This role supports a combined intensive care unit and progressive care unit (PCU) setting caring for complex medical and critical-care patients. Responsibilities include managing ventilated patients, titrating vasoactive and sedative infusions, interpreting telemetry, and providing care for patients with cardiac, neurologic, vascular, trauma, sepsis, overdose, and other critical conditions.

Job Details

• Schedule: Day shifts are 12 hours, scheduled from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., with a minimum of 36 hours per week. Weekend shifts are generally scheduled every other weekend, with holidays as needed and no call requirement.
• Required Qualifications:
  • Registered nurse license required.
  • At least 2 years of intensive care unit experience.
  • Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), Basic Life Support (BLS), and National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certifications required.
  • Thermaguard or Zoll cooling experience with targeted temperature management (TTM) required.
  • Experience with EPIC required.
• Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience caring for complex critical-care patients, including ventilated patients, post-percutaneous coronary intervention cardiac patients, stroke patients, patients receiving targeted temperature management, vascular patients, trauma patients, patients with sepsis or overdose, and patients requiring continuous renal replacement therapy.
• Additional Information:
  • The combined unit includes intensive care and progressive care beds, with typical nurse-to-patient ratios of 1:12 in intensive care and 1:3 in progressive care.
  • The role includes titration of standard intensive care infusions, including vasoactive and sedative medications, as well as limited titration of select progressive care infusions within written parameters.
  • Responsibilities include ventilator management, respiratory treatments, specimen collection, bronchoscopy support, telemetry interpretation, and management of patients requiring advanced critical-care interventions.
  • The role may include floating between intensive care and progressive care patients within the unit.
  • Respiratory therapist coverage is available around the clock, with intensivist coverage seven days per week and hospitalist coverage available at all times.
  • Unit orientation includes two shifts on the unit.
  • Navy blue 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