Travel Nurse RN - ICU - Intensive Care Unit
Waupaca, WI
Voca Healthcare
3x12 hrs, Nights

Required qualifications

• Active Wisconsin RN license.
• AHA BLS and NIHSS certifications.
• ICU or IMU experience.
• Epic charting experience within the past year.
• Comfortable caring for higher-acuity patients, including some patients on IV drips.
• Associate degree or certificate required.
• BSN strongly preferred, but not required.
• Previous travel experience preferred, not explicitly mandatory in the detailed requirements.

Strongly preferred: Stepdown experience and critical-access hospital experience.

Schedule and working conditions

Requirement

Details

Contract length

10 weeks

Shift

12-hour nights, 7 PM–7 AM

Guaranteed hours

36 per week, subject to exceptions

Weekends

Every other weekend

Holidays

Holiday rotation

On-call

None

Scrubs

Black

Patient ratio

Normally 1:5; can reach 1:7

Floating

Within facility and potentially other ThedaCare facilities within 60 miles

Missed shifts

Must be made up within two weeks

What the unit is really like

This is more of a high-acuity Med/Surg or stepdown unit than a traditional ICU. The rural hospital has a 20-bed unit with an average daily census of 12–18 patients.

You should be comfortable with:

• Higher-acuity medical and surgical patients.
• Patients requiring drips and closer monitoring.
• Variable workloads, with nurse-to-patient ratios occasionally reaching 1:7.
• Adapting to a smaller hospital environment and floating when needed.

Important eligibility restriction

The posting excludes travelers whose home location or current facility is within 50 miles of Facility.

The manager will call, with the CSM texting MRG according to the posting. Previous travel is preferred, and candidates should be resilient and comfortable with changing assignments.