Travel Nurse RN - ICU - Intensive Care Unit

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Health is seeking a travel nurse RN ICU - Intensive Care Unit for a travel nursing job in Quincy, Illinois.

• Specialty:
  ICU - Intensive Care Unit
• Discipline:
  RN
• Start Date:
  
  03/30/2026
• Duration:
  13 weeks
• 36 hours per week
• Shift:
  12 hours, nights
• Employment Type:
  
  Travel

ICU (Intensive Care Unit) only recent 1+ year required IL license required ACLS, BLS Certification, NIHSS, PALS covid card references checklist

• ACLS (Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support)
• BLS (Basic Life Support)
• NIHSS (NIH Stroke Scale)

• Experience in Level I or Level II Trauma Center
• Experience in 300+ bed hospital
• CRRT experience highly preferred
• Prefer experience pulling arterial/cardiac sheaths

Typical ICU patient populations include:

• Sepsis
• DKA (Diabetic Keto acidosis)
• COVID
• Post-operative recovery
• Post heart catheterization (sheath removal sometimes)
• Suicidal ideation (SI) patients

• Motor Vehicle Accidents (MVA)
• Drownings
• Tractor rollover accidents
• Fractures
• Spinal injuries

• Neurosurgery patients
• External Ventricular Drain (EVD)
• Lumbar Drain (LP drain)
• 24-hour EEG monitoring

• CRRT (Prismaflex)
• ECMO (occasionally)
• Rotaprone therapy
• TTM (Targeted Temperature Management – Arctic Sun)
• Massive Transfusion Protocol (MTP)
• Train of Four monitoring
• Frequent paralysis/sedation
• Organ recovery procedures (procurement only, no transplants)

• Tracheostomy care
• Chest tube (CT) insertion
• Bronchoscopy
• Arterial line insertion
• Lumbar puncture drains
• Sheath removal post-cardiac cath

Are nurses required to titrate drips?

• ✅
  Yes

• Precedex
• Pressors (vasopressors)
• Anti-arrhythmics
• Sedation drips
• Standard ICU titratable medications

• Charge Nurse
  • Yes
  • Day shift:
    Usually a Blessing staff nurse
  • Night shift:
    Sometimes house supervisor
  • Charge nurse may take a smaller assignment
• Nurse Aides
  • Yes
• Providers in House
  • 24/7 Intensivist
  • Hospitalist
  • Physician & Nurse Practitioner coverage
• Respiratory Therapy
  • RT available 24/7
  • Assigned specifically to ICU/PCU
  • Full respiratory equipment:
    • Ventilators
    • CPAP
    • BiPAP
    • Other respiratory devices
• Monitoring
  • Tele monitor technician available
  • RNs must interpret their own strips
• Telemetry
  • Draeger

• Shift Structure
  • 3 × 12-hour shifts
  • Start time 0700
• Schedule posted 6 weeks in advance
• Self-scheduling not guaranteed
• Block scheduling not guaranteed
• Can discuss needs with unit leader

• Weekends
  • Every other weekend
  • Saturday & Sunday for both shifts
• Holidays
  • Rotated with core staff

• None

• Possible float areas
  • PCU
  • CVICU
• Usually float as help-all staff, but may take patients if needed. Floating occurs infrequently.

• Scrub Color: Black

• First Day
  • 12–14 hours
  • Includes:
    • Competencies
    • Computer modules
    • General hospital orientation
• Unit Orientation
  • 1 × 12-hour shift on hired unit and shift