Travel Nurse RN - ICU - Intensive Care Unit
Rapid City, SD
Malone Healthcare - Nursing
3x12 hrs, Days, Nights, Flexible
Referral Bonus

Travel RN – ICU |  (Rapid City, SD)

🏥 Unit Overview

• 39-bed mixed ICU
  • MICU
  • SICU
  • CICU
  • TICU
• Travelers generally will not float to CVICU unless they have prior CVICU experience.
• Heavy trauma and high-acuity patient population.

✅ Minimum Requirements

• 2+ years of recent ICU experience (excluding travel assignments) strongly preferred
• Candidates with 1.5+ years of ICU experience may be considered if they have significant additional RN experience (manager approval required).
• First-time travelers are NOT accepted.
• Must have completed at least one prior travel assignment.
• Must live 100+ miles from any Monument Health facility.
• Former permanent employees must wait 1 year before returning as travelers.

🩺 Patient Population

Cares for critically ill adult patients including:

• Medical ICU
• Surgical ICU
• Cardiac ICU
• Neuro ICU
• Trauma ICU

Common diagnoses include:

• ARDS
• Myocardial Infarction (MI)
• Stroke (CVA/TIA)
• COVID
• Post-cardiac catheterization
• Post-surgical patients
• Multi-system trauma

Cardiac ICU experience is preferred, especially:

• CABG (24–48 hours post-op)
• TAVR (24–48 hours post-op)

Fresh open-heart patients are generally assigned to permanent staff unless the traveler has extensive experience.

👥 Patient Ratios

• 1:1
• 1:2
• Occasionally 1:3 (based on patient acuity)

📋 Required Certifications

• BLS
• ACLS
• NIHSS
• TNCC (Required before arrival)

Candidates unwilling to obtain TNCC should not be submitted.

💉 Required Clinical Skills

Must be experienced with:

• Epic EMR (required)
• Ventilator management
• Hemodynamic monitoring
• Vasopressors
• Sedation
• Paralytics
• Telemetry
• Proning
• Strong critical thinking and assessment

Strongly Preferred:

• CRRT
• Impella
• IABP

🔄 Floating

ICU travelers may float to:

• Emergency Department (if qualified)
• Adult Med-Surg/Telemetry (1:4 ratio) when overstaffed

Traveler must be comfortable floating.

📅 Schedule

• 48 hours/week (mandatory and non-negotiable)
• Every other weekend preferred (not guaranteed)
• No on-call

📚 Orientation

Includes:

• Hospital orientation
• 8-hour department orientation
• 4-hour iLearn session
• Two 12-hour precepted shifts
• One additional independent 12-hour shift for 48-hour/week travelers

👩‍⚕️ Unit Support

• 1–2 CNAs plus mobility aide
• 2 ICU Charge Nurses
• 24/7 Respiratory Therapy
• 3 Intensivists (days)
• 2 Intensivists + APP (nights)
• Resource nurse (staffing dependent)
• Phlebotomy available
• ICU Charge RNs place midlines