Travel Registered Nurse - Pediatric Intensive Care Unit - Saint Louis, MO

Travel assignment, 10 weeks, 12hr rotating, 36 hours a week, starting November 30, 2026.

Pay as Cross Country posts it: about $2,234 a week in all, a taxable rate of $20 an hour plus $1,514.01 a week in housing and meal stipends.

Job Summary

Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Registered Nurse position featuring rotating 12-hour shifts in a high-acuity pediatric setting. The role provides care for neonates, infants, children, and adolescents with complex conditions, including respiratory failure, sepsis, postoperative needs, transplants, and trauma. The position requires collaboration across critical care areas and may include floating within the service line.

Job Details

• Schedule: Rotating 12-hour shifts; day shifts are 7:00 a.m.–7:30 p.m. and night shifts are 7:00 p.m.–7:30 a.m.; minimum of 36 hours per week.
• Required Qualifications: Basic Life Support (BLS) and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certifications; at least 18 months of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) experience; experience with electronic health record charting; ability to care for patients with a 1:2 nurse-to-patient ratio; skills in intubation assistance and management, ventilated patient care, acute airway maintenance, central and implanted line care, continuous renal replacement therapy, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, intracranial pressure monitoring, chest tube management, gastric and nasogastric tube management, peripherally inserted central catheter management, intravenous access initiation and maintenance, endotracheal and nasotracheal suctioning, telemetry monitoring, tracheostomy care, and ventilator management.
• Preferred Qualifications: Level I trauma experience; experience with postoperative care, respiratory failure, liver transplants, sepsis, bone marrow transplant patients, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, and continuous renal replacement therapy.
• Float: Float rotation may be required.
• Additional Information: Patient populations include neonates, infants, children, and adolescents. Clinical responsibilities may include care for patients requiring BiPAP, high-flow nasal cannula, ventilators, oscillators, chest tubes, central lines, and intracranial pressure monitoring. The role may include floating to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, cardiovascular intensive care, stepdown, overflow areas, and lower-acuity medical-surgical units, as well as providing one-to-one safety observation when needed. The position includes care for patients with COVID-19 and stabilization of burn patients; cardiac cases and bedside surgeries or procedures are not included.

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