Travel Registered Nurse - Intensive Care Unit - Spokane Valley, WA

Travel assignment, 13 weeks, 12hr nights, 36 hours a week, starting November 30, 2026.

Pay as Cross Country posts it: about $2,360 a week in all, a taxable rate of $24.32 an hour plus $1,484 a week in housing and meal stipends.

Job Summary

Intensive Care Unit — Spokane Valley, WA. This position supports patients across intensive care, progressive care, medical/surgical, and acute respiratory settings within the clinician’s scope of practice. Responsibilities include managing complex medical and surgical patients, supporting airway and ventilator needs, interpreting cardiac rhythms, and providing comprehensive critical care.

Job Details

• Required Qualifications: Two years of intensive care unit experience; Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), Basic Life Support (BLS), Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC), and NIH certifications; Traveler Telemetry Competency Exam; proficiency with ventilator and airway management, high-flow oxygen, chest tubes, peripheral intravenous therapy, wound care, wound vacuums, drains, nephrostomy tubes, pain management, patient-controlled analgesia, central line management, cardiac rhythm interpretation, and critical drips.
• Schedule: 12-hour shifts from 7:00 PM–7:30 AM or 7:00 AM–7:30 PM, with a minimum of 36 hours per week.
• Assignment Dates: 11/30/2026–02/28/2027.
• Additional Information: Clinical areas include intensive care, progressive care, medical/surgical, acute respiratory, and emergency department overflow. Patient populations may include ventilated patients, sepsis, respiratory failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pneumonia, congestive heart failure, acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease, deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, surgical and orthopedic patients, and progressive care patients requiring frequent assessments. Intensive care assignments generally range from 1:2 to 1:3 based on acuity, while progressive care assignments are generally 1:3 and medical/surgical assignments are generally 1:5. Experience with electronic medical record systems, cardiac rhythm interpretation, intravenous pumps, and automated medication dispensing systems is required. Orientation includes two shifts on the unit, and a cardiac rhythm interpretation examination must be completed before starting. Weekend rotation occurs every other weekend, with one holiday assignment per contract. Breaks and 30-minute meals are mandatory.

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