Travel Registered Nurse - Intensive Care Unit Cardiovascular - Asheville, NC

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

Pay as Cross Country posts it: about $1,955 a week in all, a taxable rate of $20 an hour plus $1,235.17 a week in housing and meal stipends.

Job Summary

Asheville, NC. The position supports cardiovascular intensive care patients in a high-acuity setting with 12-hour night shifts. Responsibilities include advanced critical care management, hemodynamic monitoring, ventilator care, medication titration, and management of complex cardiovascular support therapies.

Job Details

• Schedule: Night shifts, 12-hour shifts, 36 hours per week, with alternating weekends.
• Required Qualifications: Intensive care unit experience required; competency in titration of vesicant medications, pressors, sedation, and paralytics; experience with ventilators and tracheostomies; telemetry interpretation; understanding of hemodynamics and pulmonary artery catheter setup and interpretation.
• Preferred Qualifications: Critical Care Registered Nurse (CCRN) certification; experience with intra-aortic balloon pumps (IABP), Impella, and continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT).
• Additional Information: The cardiovascular intensive care unit supports a 16-bed department with typical patient ratios of 1:1 or 2:1, and occasionally 3:1 based on acuity. Clinical equipment includes ventilators, telemetry, intravenous pumps, intra-aortic balloon pumps (IABP), continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT), Impella, and hypothermia devices. Clinical procedures include cardioversion, central line insertion, esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD), bronchoscopy, chest tube insertion and maintenance, pericardiocentesis, and thoracentesis. Required uniform colors are navy or navy and white.

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