Travel High Acuity Float Pool ICU RN - $2,566 per week

Care Career is seeking a travel nurse RN Critical Care Float for a travel nursing job in Seattle, Washington.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: Critical Care Float
• Discipline: RN
• Start Date: 10/26/2026
• Duration: 13 weeks
• 40 hours per week
• Shift: 12 hours, nights
• Employment Type: Travel

Responsibilities

• Provide high-acuity nursing care as part of a High Acuity Float Pool.
• Float across multiple departments, including:
  • Critical Care/ICU
  • Observation
  • Medical-Surgical
  • General Surgery
  • Orthopedic Surgery
  • Short Stay Surgery
  • Thoracic Surgery
  • Neurosurgery
  • Oncology
  • Telemetry
  • Progressive Care
• Manage critically ill medical, surgical, neurological, and cardiac patients.
• Maintain AACN-based critical-care staffing ratios, generally 1:1–1:2, with assignments up to 1:3 depending on patient acuity and transfer status.
• Perform comprehensive assessments and continuously monitor patients for changes in condition.
• Safely administer and titrate vasoactive, sedative, analgesic, and other critical-care infusions, including:
  • Epinephrine
  • Norepinephrine
  • Dobutamine
  • Propofol
  • Esmolol
  • Hydromorphone
  • Midazolam
  • Cisatracurium (CIS)
• Care for patients requiring ventilators, high-flow oxygen, BiPAP, and CPAP.
• Monitor and interpret cardiac rhythms using Philips monitoring systems and collaborate with monitor technicians.
• Manage patients with advanced cardiac support devices when appropriately trained and recently experienced, including CRRT, Impella, ECMO, and IABP.
• Care for patients with or without PA catheters, based on experience and competency.
• Collaborate with physicians, charge nurses, respiratory therapists, nursing assistants, and other interdisciplinary team members.
• Respond appropriately to rapid changes in patient condition and escalate concerns promptly.
• Accurately document assessments, interventions, medications, and patient responses in EPIC.
• Adapt quickly to different units, patient populations, workflows, and staffing assignments.
• Participate in floating assignments throughout the hospital according to operational needs.
• Work collaboratively with charge/resource nurses, who remain free of patient assignments.
• Provide safe patient care while maintaining infection-control and hospital safety standards.
• Participate in required orientation, competency validation, and unit-specific training.

Requirements Current Washington State or Compact RN license; license must be available for submission. AHA BLS certification required. AHA ACLS certification required. NIHSS certification required. Minimum 2 years of ICU experience required. High-acuity ICU experience preferred. EPIC experience is mandatory. Prior floating experience is mandatory, including experience with a float pool, floating to other facilities, and/or floating between floors/units. Strong critical-care assessment and clinical judgment skills. Demonstrated experience with titrating critical-care drips. Ventilator, high-flow, BiPAP, and CPAP experience required/preferred based on assignment. Telemetry experience with the ability to independently read cardiac rhythms. Experience with advanced devices such as CRRT, Impella, ECMO, or IABP is highly preferred for night-shift candidates, though candidates do not need experience with all devices. Recent experience with advanced cardiac devices may allow competency validation/check-off. Must be comfortable floating across multiple departments and caring for varied patient populations. Must be willing to work 12-hour night shifts, 7:00 PM–7:30 AM. Must work 3 weekend shifts per schedule. Holiday availability is required. No call or standby requirement. Self-scheduling is available. Must complete General Hospital Orientation (GHO) on Monday, along with Myles Modules, Cerner validation class, and unit orientation. ICU orientation consists of 2 shifts in the ICU. Must wear Royal Blue scrubs. Must be willing to participate in a profile review and manager interview.

About Care Career

Benefits

• Referral bonus
• Weekly pay
• Medical benefits
• Continuing Education
• Dental benefits
• Vision benefits