Travel Registered Nurse - ICU

TalentBurst, Inc is seeking a travel nurse RN ICU - Intensive Care Unit for a travel nursing job in Monroe, North Carolina.

Job Description and Requirements

• Specialty: ICU - Intensive Care Unit
• Discipline: RN
• Start Date: 03/23/2026
• Duration: 13 weeks
• 36 hours per week
• Shift: 12 hours, nights
• Employment Type: Travel

JOB DESCRIPTION

RN - ICU

• About Facility:
  • 600 Hospital Drive Monroe, North Carolina 28112
  • 174 Beds
  • Stroke Center
  • No Trauma Designation
  • Not a Teaching Hospital
  • Not a Chest Pain center
  • Radius Rule: Travelers' permanent address must be 50 miles outside of home unit
• Unit Information:
  • Beds: 14
  • Census? Average patients/day? 14
  • Minimum Years of Experience required? 2 years ICU experience
  • Will you accept a first-time traveler? Yes
• Patient Types/Common Diagnoses:
  • Adults only.
  • Medical ICU patients: Sepsis, DKA, Strokes, CIWA, respiratory/kidney/liver failure, GI bleeds, surgical patients, CHF, COPD,
  • No cardiothoracic or high-level neuro surgeries
• Patient Ratios:
  • 1:2-3 depending on staffing
• Required License, National Certification, Certs:
  • BLS, ACLS, NIHSS
• Skills required:
  • Vented patients, trachs, chest tubes, critical drip maintenance, central line maintenance, art lines, wound care, wound vacs, drains, cardiac rhythm interpretation, PIV starts, NG tube insertion/maintenance, etc.
  • EPIC experience required
• Support within the Department:
  • 1 CNA, covers HUC duties for nights
  • Cameras in rooms for remote triage RN, can transfer to remote doc on Nights
  • HUC during the day
  • Charge nurse, can take patients if needed, but not usually. Charge RN will be a part of the Rapid Response/Code Team
  • Phlebotomy 24/7, but ICU draws own labs
  • PICC Team during the day
  • Anesthesia available at night for central line placements
  • RT 24/7
  • Hospitalist 24/7
  • Intensivist 24/7 here during the day, Virtual Critical Care Doc for Nights
  • Bedside monitors, central monitors at nurses station
• Technology/Equipment:
  • EMR: EPIC - required
  • IV Pump: Alaris
  • Med dispensing: Omnicell
  • Monitors: Phillips
• Floating:
  • Yes, could float to other areas to care for ICU or PCU patients. Typically, do not have to float to MedSurg, but within the realm of possibility.
  • Will be in rotation with staff
• Orientation (facility and unit):
  • NEO
  • 2 shifts in unit to orient to shift hired into
• Scheduling:
  • Weekend rotation: 6 weekend shifts in a 6-week schedule, can be Friday, Saturday, or Sunday
  • On call? No
  • Holiday Expectations: 50% of holidays in contract
  • Approval of RTO: ok to approve up to 7 days
  • Shift times: 0645-1915, 1845-0715
  • Schedule cycle: 6-week schedules
  • Can put in schedule requests, but supervisor will balance schedule to unit needs
  • Block scheduling cannot necessarily be guaranteed
  • Manager open to picking up shifts
• Other notes:
  • Scrub Color: Navy Blue
  • Parking: Free
  • Unit Culture:

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