ICU Travel Nurse - Tuscaloosa, AL

This ICU travel nurse position in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, with Advantis Medical is a 13-week Travel ICU Registered Nurse (RN) contract at DCH Regional Medical Center. This role pays $2,062 per week and follows a Nights shift with a 3x12 schedule.

As the ICU registered nurse on this assignment, you'll care for critically ill patients on continuous monitoring, titrate critical infusions as ordered, manage ventilated patients, and act immediately on signs of deterioration with the critical care team.

Advantis Medical supports travel clinicians with streamlined credentialing to help with fast start dates, free license support and renewals, and Day 1 benefits.

Responsibilities

• Manage critically ill patients requiring continuous hemodynamic monitoring and frequent reassessment
• Titrate vasoactive, sedation, and other high-alert drips as ordered and per facility protocol
• Care for mechanically ventilated patients and manage critical care devices, including arterial and central lines
• Respond to clinical deterioration and participate in codes and rapid responses

Travel Nursing Requirements

• 2+ years of recent ICU nursing experience
• Active Alabama RN License

DCH Regional Medical Center — Tuscaloosa, AL

DCH Regional Medical Center is a 583-bed (authorized) not-for-profit hospital and the cornerstone of the DCH Health System, serving West Alabama for over a century from a campus adjacent to the University of Alabama. Travel nurses join the region's primary referral and trauma center, with a significant trauma and acute-care role.

• A state-designated Level III Trauma Center (since 2010) with a 16-bed Trauma Surgical ICU and a 54-bed emergency department (~80,000 visits a year).
• A Level II Stroke Center and critical-care units at regional-referral acuity.
• Cardiology that includes open-heart surgery, a cardiac catheterization lab, and a cardiac ICU.
• The Lewis and Faye Manderson Cancer Center (medical and radiation oncology, clinical trials), plus robotic and minimally invasive surgery.
• Obstetrics with a NICU; a University of Alabama family-medicine residency training site.