Travel ICU Registered Nurse - $2,329 per week

Care Career is seeking a travel nurse RN ICU - Intensive Care Unit for a travel nursing job in Kearney, Nebraska.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: ICU - Intensive Care Unit
• Discipline: RN
• Start Date: 10/12/2026
• Duration: 13 weeks
• 36 hours per week
• Shift: 12 hours, nights
• Employment Type: Travel

ICU Registered Nurse – 12-Hour Nights

Department: ICU
Shift: 12-hour Nights
Schedule: 6:30 PM–6:30 AM
Guaranteed Hours: 36 hours/week
Setting: Acute Care | Trauma Level II
Contract: 13 weeks

Important – 50-Mile Radius Rule:

• Candidates must live outside a 50-mile radius
• Driver’s license required at submission and used to verify the radius
• Candidates cannot currently be full-time, part-time, or PRN with any CommonSpirit-affiliated facility, including CHI or Dignity

Required Certifications:

• BLS
• ACLS
• NIHSS
• RN license required for submission
• BSN not required

Unit Details:

• 33 beds
• Average daily census: 16
• Nurse-to-patient ratio: 1:2–3
• Patient population includes adults with:
  • Trauma
  • Cardiac conditions
  • Overdose/substance abuse
  • Sepsis
  • Post-stent and pacemaker placement
  • Stroke
  • Vascular cases
  • Renal failure
  • Heart failure
  • Respiratory distress

Clinical Requirements:

• RNs are required to titrate drips
• Common drips include cardiac medications, insulin, and sedation
• RNs monitor, interpret, and document telemetry strips
• Monitor system: GE
• Telemetry tech provides monitor oversight
• Respiratory equipment includes vents, CPAP, BiPAP, and high-flow
• RNs may troubleshoot respiratory equipment as needed

Staffing & Support:

• Nurse aides available based on census
• Healthcare Support Tech available 3 days/week, Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–4:30 PM
• Nurse aides may sit 1:1 patients or assist on the unit based on volume

Scheduling:

• 6:30 AM–6:30 PM / 6:30 PM–6:30 AM
• Self-scheduling available for core staff; travelers are added afterward
• Block scheduling cannot be guaranteed
• Weekend requirement: Every other weekend
• Minimum 2 holidays required if they fall within the contract
• No duos requesting the same schedule or sharing a vehicle
• If placed on call and called back in, nurse must arrive within 30 minutes

Floating:

• Typically to PCU
• Occasionally to Med-Surg
• Traveler will generally take the same ratios assigned on those units:
  • PCU: approximately 1:4
  • Med-Surg: approximately 1:5

Orientation:

• 1 shift of unit-specific orientation
• Wednesday orientation exam: open-book exam covering skills learned
• Minimum 90% score required to pass

RTO Policy:

• RTO must be submitted upfront
• Maximum 7 days of RTO for a 13-week contract
• Additional RTO will not be approved after submission

Other Important Policies:

• Artificial nails are prohibited in all patient-care departments. Refusal to remove them may result in contract termination.
• EMR: Epic
• Facility may cancel up to 4 shifts during a 13-week assignment.

About Care Career

Benefits

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