Travel Registered Nurse - Neonatal Intensive Care Unit - Portland, OR

Travel assignment, 13 weeks, 12hr nights, 36 hours a week, starting December 2, 2026.

Pay as Cross Country posts it: about $2,420 a week in all, a taxable rate of $20 an hour plus $1,700.43 a week in housing and meal stipends.

Job Summary

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Registered Nurse specializing in the care of critically ill neonates. This travel position provides intensive care for newborns requiring specialized services, including high-risk deliveries, invasive monitoring, ventilator management, line care, and neonatal procedures. The assignment begins 12/02/2026 and requires night-shift coverage.

Job Details

• Schedule: Three 12-hour night shifts per week, 7:00 PM–7:30 AM, for a minimum of 36 hours per week. Weekend coverage includes three Saturdays and three Sundays during each six-week schedule period. At least one designated holiday is required.
• Required Qualifications: Minimum of 1 year of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit experience; previous travel nursing experience; current Basic Life Support (BLS), Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP), and Registered Nurse Certified (RNC) certifications; active Oregon nursing license or proof of Oregon license application and fingerprinting; electronic medical record experience.
• Preferred Qualifications: Experience caring for neonates less than 24–28 weeks old; Neonatal Intensive Care Unit levels III and IV; dysrhythmia interpretation and management; bottle, breast, and gavage feedings; oral, nasogastric, and nasojejunal tube placement and management; isolation precautions and personal protective equipment; arterial line management; central and implanted line care; umbilical arterial catheter and umbilical venous catheter management; intravenous vasopressors; surfactants; steroids; neonatal abstinence syndrome; ventilator management, including assist-control/pressure control, synchronized intermittent mandatory ventilation, continuous positive airway pressure, bilevel positive airway pressure, and positive end-expiratory pressure; invasive hemodynamic monitoring; neonatal dosage calculations; and pulmonary artery line management.
• Float: Float rotation may be required.
• Additional Information: The nurse will provide care for neonates admitted directly from labor and delivery, the emergency department, or other healthcare facilities who require specialist services and intensive care. Responsibilities may include attending high-risk deliveries, caring for patients across neonatal intensive care levels, managing umbilical arterial and venous catheters, assisting with body cooling, exchange transfusions, continuous renal replacement therapy, and on-unit surgical procedures. Floating may include pediatric intensive care and acute pediatric units for patients within the nurse’s competency who are less than 1 year of age. Required education, skills testing, competencies, and compliance activities must be completed before the assignment begins.

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