Travel Registered Nurse - Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Open Heart - Denver, CO

Travel assignment, 13 weeks, 12hr days, 36 hours a week, starting November 2, 2026.

Pay as Cross Country posts it: about $2,530 a week in all, a taxable rate of $20 an hour plus $1,809.97 a week in housing and meal stipends.

Job Summary

Registered Nurse, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Open Heart, Denver, Colorado. This travel position supports pediatric patients with congenital cardiac conditions in a specialized critical care setting. The role involves post-operative care, continuous infusion management, chest tube care, moderate sedation, and collaboration with an experienced multidisciplinary team.

Job Details

• Schedule: Day shifts, 12 hours per shift, with a minimum of 36 hours per week.
• Required Qualifications: More than 2 years of cardiac critical care experience; Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), Basic Life Support (BLS), and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certifications.
• Preferred Qualifications: Peritoneal dialysis experience, continuous renal replacement therapy skills, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) bedside experience.
• Additional Information:
• Provide care for pediatric and neonatal cardiac patients, including post-sternotomy and open-chest care.
• Manage inotropic and vasopressor continuous infusions, intravenous fluids, chest tubes, and moderate sedation.
• Support patients requiring complex cardiac and critical care interventions.
• Maintain a flexible, organized, collaborative, and communicative approach to patient care.
• Work within a 10-bed pediatric cardiac intensive care setting with typical critical care patient ratios of 1:2.
• Participate in a four-shift-per-four-weekend schedule.

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