Travel Icu Rn

Job Description

Tripod Partners USA is seeking a travel nurse RN ICU - Intensive Care Unit for a travel nursing job in Louisville, Kentucky.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: ICU - Intensive Care Unit
• Discipline: RN
• Start Date: 09/27/2026
• Duration: 13 weeks
• 36 hours per week
• Shift: 12 hours
• Employment Type: Travel

Tripod Partners is seeking an experienced Travel ICU RN for a 13-week travel assignment in a high-acuity Intensive Care Unit. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced critical care nurse to work in a busy ICU caring for complex patients across a range of specialties.

Shift: Nights, 6:45 PM – 7:15 AM

Schedule: 36 hours per week

Weekend Requirement: Every other weekend

Unit: ICU – 3 East / 3 Central

Beds: 32

Patient Ratio: 2:1

Charting: Epic

The ICU operates using a primary care nurse model, with a dedicated resource nurse available to assist with patient care, procedures, and other clinical needs. Nurses will care for high-acuity patients requiring close monitoring, complex interventions, medication titration, and advanced critical care skills.

Patient populations and diagnoses include neuro and neurosurgical patients, renal patients requiring CRRT, cardiac patients including occasional balloon pump patients, respiratory patients requiring ventilator support, and patients receiving multiple continuous drips and vasoactive medications.

The RN must be comfortable reading and interpreting telemetry strips and independently titrating critical care medications according to patient condition and clinical protocols. Common medications include Neo-Synephrine, Levophed, Cardene, Cardizem, 3% saline, and other vasoactive pressors.

Common equipment includes ZOLL devices, Nihon Kohden bedside monitors, and PrisMax CRRT machines.

Requirements:

Active RN license eligible for assignment

Minimum 2 years of recent acute ICU RN experience

Current BLS certification

Current ACLS certification

Current NIH certification

Recent Epic experience

Strong telemetry interpretation skills

Experience with medication titration and high-acuity critical care patients

CRRT experience preferred

Please note: A local rate drop will apply to candidates who meet the facility's local traveler criteria.

Join Tripod Partners and take your ICU experience to the next level with a rewarding travel nursing opportunity.

Tripod Partners USA Job ID #266. Pay package is based on 12 hour shifts and 36.0 hours per week (subject to confirmation) with tax-free stipend amount to be determined.

About Tripod Partners USA

Founded originally in London, England, in 2012 and steadily expanding its footprint across the globe (including Australia and other key markets), Tripod Partners USA established its U.S. headquarters in Austin, Texas, in December 2024. Since then, we have grown into a nationwide leader in healthcare staffing, partnering with various managed service providers and neutral vendors to serve all 50 states.

As a Joint Commission-certified (JCC) aligned organization, we bring a tradition of British excellence and a commitment to quality care to the U.S. market. We offer a unique blend of global expertise and local insight, creating a thriving community of nurses and allied health professionals who trust us for their career journeys.

Why Tripod Partners? Because we combine scale, dedication, and a personal touch to ensure our clinicians are supported, valued, and part of something bigger.

Benefits

• Medical benefits
• Health savings account
• Dental benefits
• Vision benefits