Job Description
Prime Staffing is seeking a travel nurse RN ICU - Intensive Care Unit for a travel nursing job in Columbia, South Carolina.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: ICU - Intensive Care Unit
- Discipline: RN
- Start Date: 10/12/2026
- Duration: 13 weeks
- 48 hours per week
- Shift: 12 hours, nights
- Employment Type: Travel
RN – LTAC ICU | Columbia, SC
Location: Columbia, SC 29201
Unit: LTAC – 12-bed ICU / 35-bed Med-Surg
Shift: Nights | 4×12 hours | 7:00 PM–7:30 AM
Contract: 13–26 weeks
Hours: 36 or 48 hours/week
Weekend: Every other weekend
Patient Ratio: 1:2 in ICU; 1:5 when floating to Med-Surg
Charting: Epic
Position Overview
We are seeking an experienced ICU Registered Nurse for an LTACH (Long-Term Acute Care Hospital) ICU. This position requires strong critical-care skills and significant neurological experience, with the ability to care for medically complex adult and geriatric patients.
The facility includes a 12-bed ICU and 35-bed Med-Surg unit, and staff may work in both areas based on operational needs.
Patient Population & Clinical Focus
Patients may include those requiring:
- Ventilator weaning and long-term respiratory management
- Trach and PEG care
- Complex wound care
- Spinal cord injury care
- Neurological and stroke-related management
- ARDS, pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, and respiratory failure
- CHF and post-MI care
- Renal failure and other complex medical conditions
Key Skills & Responsibilities
- Manage ventilated patients and assist with weaning from mechanical ventilation
- Care for tracheostomy patients and manage ETT suctioning
- Administer and titrate vasopressors, insulin drips, anticoagulants, sedatives, and emergency medications
- Manage arterial lines, central lines, PICC lines, IVs, and blood products
- Perform cardiac monitoring, dysrhythmia management, and 12-lead ECGs
- Provide neurological assessments, including stroke scale assessments
- Manage tube feedings, NG tubes, ostomies, Foley catheters, and other complex patient-care needs
- Maintain strong infection prevention and isolation practices
Requirements
- 2+ years of ICU experience – Required
- Strong Neuro experience – Required
- BLS, ACLS, and NIHSS – Required
- Epic experience – Required
- LTAC/LTACH experience – Preferred
- Previous charge experience – Preferred
- Teaching hospital, community hospital, and Trauma experience – Preferred
- Travel experience not required
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About Prime Staffing
At Prime Staffing, we understand the importance of finding the perfect fit for both our clients and candidates. Prime Staffing utilizes a unique matchmaking approach, providing the most qualified contingent staffing to our clients, and the most competitive contracts to our workforce. Our experienced team takes the time to get to know both our clients and candidates, their needs, and preferences, to ensure that each placement is a success.
We offer a wide range of staffing services including temporary, temp-to-perm, and direct hire placements. Our extensive network of qualified candidates includes nurses, allied healthcare professionals, corporate support professionals and executives.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Columbia, SC |
| Industry | All |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Website | http://www.primestaffingnyc.com/ |
About Company
Prime Staffing is one of New York's leading staffing firms specializing in temporary and full-time/permanent placements across multiple industries including; healthcare, business, consulting, finance, legal services, entertainment, media, information Technology(IT) and retail.
Prime Staffing is certified by The Joint Commission for its compliance, and integrity, in supplying superior healthcare staffing services to many of the finest healthcare organizations in the country. In addition to its impeccable reputation for providing travel and per diem health care staffing, Prime has become an integral partner in staffing some of the most prestigious business organizations and Fortune 500 companies in the country including multi-national bank and investment firms, international business consulting firms, global law firms and some of the most prominent media and entertainment outlets.
Prime's success and rapid growth is direct result if its most basic founding principle-provide our clients with the most experienced and qualified employees and, likewise, provide our employees with the best jobs at the top organizations in their respective professional disciplines.
Prime Staffing is a high-energy company with a corporate culture that embraces innovation, new technology and personalized customer service. We are confident in our ability to serve you professionally by placing esteemed and experienced individuals. Our continuous expansions enables us to adapt to the continuously changing needs of our clients and employees. Through our team of seasoned professionals we maintain respect, integrity and superiority in all aspects of our business.
At Prime, we work diligently to recognize your objectives and create programs to meet them. We believe that ardent customer service is an essential component to remaining at the forefront of a competitive marketplace. Prime utilizes its expertise, and decades of combined experience in the industry, to continuously improve, implement cutting-edge programs and maintaining our position in the market as one of the fastest growing firms in the Tri-State area.
It is our goal to build long-term relationships with clients and employees based on a foundation of trust, mutual respect and our expertise in the field of staffing. We guarantee dependability, consistency and security in all aspects of operation. Prime Staffing is the Superior Staffing Solution.
Skills
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- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)unmatched
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- Congestive Heart Failureunmatched
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- Geriatricsunmatched
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- Intensive Careunmatched
- Kidney Diseaseunmatched
- Long-Term Careunmatched
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- Neurologyunmatched
- Nursingunmatched
- Ostomyunmatched
- Paint Shop Pro Tubesunmatched
- Patient Careunmatched
- Pneumoniaunmatched
- Preventative Maintenanceunmatched
- Registered Nurse (RN)unmatched
- Spinal Cord Injuryunmatched
- Titrationunmatched
- Tracheotomyunmatched
- Training/Teachingunmatched
- Vasoconstrictorunmatched
- Ventilatorunmatched
- Willing to Travelunmatched
- Wound Careunmatched
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