Job Summary
Registered Nurse, Intensive Care Unit. This role provides nursing care for patients with complex respiratory and cardiac conditions, including those requiring oxygen therapy, intravenous medications, telemetry, chest tubes, tracheostomies, and mechanical ventilation. The position supports safe patient outcomes through collaboration with an interdisciplinary care team in an acute care setting.
Job Details
- Schedule: 12-hour straight night shifts, 36 hours per week, with every other weekend and holiday required.
- Required Qualifications:
- Minimum of 1 year of experience
- Registered Nurse license in South Dakota or a compact state
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from the American Heart Association (AHA)
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certification from the American Heart Association (AHA)
- Competency in bilevel positive airway pressure, continuous positive airway pressure, heated high-flow oxygen, oxygen titration, moderate sedation monitoring, telemetry, and medical-surgical patient care
- Float: Float rotation may be required.
- Additional Information:
- Care is provided for patients with conditions including pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure, COVID-19, pulmonary embolism, and complex postoperative needs.
- Responsibilities include monitoring patients receiving non-invasive ventilation, mechanical ventilation, cardiac monitoring, chest tubes, tracheostomies, and intravenous medications.
- Nurses collaborate with case managers, social workers, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, physical therapists, and specialty providers.
- Travelers may be reassigned to other medical-surgical units or departments based on operational needs.
- Orientation includes competency validation, online learning modules, self-assessment, telemetry and mechanical ventilation training, precepted unit experience, point-of-care testing, and core competency review.
- Navy blue or blue scrubs are required.
- The role emphasizes patient safety, critical thinking, time management, care prioritization, and transition of patients to higher levels of respiratory care.
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
