Travel ICU Float RN - $2,075 per week

Cross Country Nurses is seeking a travel nurse RN Float Med Surg for a travel nursing job in Phoenix, Arizona.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: Float
• Discipline: RN
• Start Date: 11/16/2026
• Duration: 13 weeks
• 36 hours per week
• Shift: 12 hours, days
• Employment Type: Travel

Job Summary
ICU Float Nurse - Intensive Care Unit (ICU) - Location unspecified. This role involves providing critical care in a Level I trauma center with high-acuity patients. The ICU Float Nurse will be responsible for delivering exceptional patient care across multiple ICU units, including neuro, cardiothoracic, and general medical-surgical trauma units.

Job Details

• Certifications: ACLS, BLS, NIHSS (preferred but not required).
• Education Requirements: Not specified.
• Degree Requirements: Not specified.
• Location Requirements: Must have a minimum of 2 years of ICU experience, including Level 1 trauma center and teaching hospital experience preferred.
• Years of Experience: 2 years of ICU experience.
• Schedule: 12-hour shifts, days or nights; 36 hours per week, with 4 weekend shifts every 4 weeks and holidays as needed.
• Required Qualifications: Minimum 2 years ICU experience, BLS, ACLS, NIHSS preferred, willingness to undergo orientation, and valid license to submit.
• Additional Information: The ICU float team includes Tower 2, Tower 4, and Neuro units, each with specific patient types and staffing ratios. The role requires competency in sterile procedures, lifts, restraints, and wound care, with readiness to float across units and campuses without refusal options. Must understand the hospital's move to a bedside report system using Cerner charting.
• Responsibilities include responding to patient needs, managing respiratory support equipment, conducting bedside reports, and completing assessments as per hospital standards.

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

Cross Country Job ID #1329012. Pay package is based on 12 hour shifts and 36.0 hours per week (subject to confirmation) with tax-free stipend amount to be determined. Posted job title: Registered Nurse / Intensive Care Unit Float

About Cross Country Nurses

Benefits

• 401k retirement plan
• Referral bonus