Travel Registered Nurse - Intensive Care Unit Neurological - Fargo, ND

Travel assignment, 13 weeks, 12hr rotating, 36 hours a week, starting November 16, 2026.

Pay as Cross Country posts it: about $2,585 a week in all, a taxable rate of $36.62 an hour plus $1,267 a week in housing and meal stipends.

Job Summary

Registered Nurse – Intensive Care Unit Neurological. This position provides care for critically ill neurological, trauma, medical, and surgical patients in an acute care setting. Responsibilities include managing complex patient populations, titratable medications, and bedside procedures while supporting care for ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes and other neurological conditions.

Job Details

• Required Qualifications: Minimum of 2 years of recent intensive care unit experience in a hospital with more than 200 beds and a Level I trauma designation; ability to independently care for critically ill patients; experience titrating vasopressor infusions; experience caring for ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes and other neurologically critically ill patients; current Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certification through the American Heart Association (AHA); current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification through the American Heart Association (AHA); National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certification; and a current North Dakota or compact-state registered nurse license.
• Preferred Qualifications: Previous Neuro Intensive Care Unit experience within the past 2 years.
• Schedule: Rotating 12-hour shifts, 36 hours per week, including every other weekend and holiday.
• Additional Information: The role involves managing 1–3 critically ill patients and caring for neurocritical, trauma, medical, and surgical populations. Responsibilities include managing vasopressors, sedatives, analgesics, inotropes, antiarrhythmics, and other titratable infusions; assisting with bedside procedures and diagnostic testing; and participating in a 32-hour orientation during the first week of the assignment. The unit has 16 beds with typical nurse-to-patient ratios of 1:2–3. Scrub color is navy blue.

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