Travel Registered Nurse - Intensive Care Unit - Tacoma, WA

Travel assignment, 13 weeks, 12hr nights, 48 hours a week, starting January 25, 2027.

Pay as Cross Country posts it: about $3,185 a week in all, a taxable rate of $30.43 an hour plus $1,603 a week in housing and meal stipends.

Job Summary

Intensive Care Unit position in Tacoma, Washington, supporting a float pool across critical care areas, including intensive care, progressive care, cardiac care, and emergency department holding areas. The position provides care for complex medical, surgical, trauma, neurological, and cardiovascular patients while managing advanced clinical needs across multiple units.

Job Details

• Schedule: Night shifts are 12 hours, with a minimum of 48 hours per week.
• Required Qualifications: Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), and National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certification; at least one year of intensive care unit experience; proficiency in cardiac rhythm interpretation, ventilator and bilevel positive airway pressure management, invasive line management, ostomy care, drains, tracheostomy care, chest tubes, lumbar drains, and intravenous medication titration; electronic medical record experience required.
• Additional Information: This float pool position supports intensive care, neurological, trauma, medical, cardiac, progressive care, and emergency department holding areas with intensive care or progressive care patients. Patient populations may include sepsis, pneumonia, diabetic ketoacidosis, delirium tremens, multisystem failure, spinal injuries, post-catheterization patients, respiratory compromise, congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, gunshot wounds, strokes, traumatic brain injuries, spinal surgeries, and postoperative cardiovascular and vascular procedures. Travelers are not expected to care for fresh postoperative coronary artery bypass graft or transcatheter aortic valve replacement patients, external ventricular drains, post-thrombolytic therapy patients, or patients requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, intra-aortic balloon pumps, Impella devices, or hypothermia protocols. Typical ratios are 1:2 in intensive care and 1:4 in progressive care, acute cardiac care, cardiac care, and emergency department holding areas, depending on acuity. Departmental support includes charge nurses, hospitalists, respiratory therapists, intensivists, cardiology coverage, phlebotomy, and rapid response and code teams. Orientation includes one day of general orientation, one intensive care unit shift, and one shift on comparable units. Weekend rotation is every other weekend, with occasional back-to-back weekends possible.

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