Malone Healthcare - Nursing is seeking a travel nurse RN ICU - Intensive Care Unit for a travel nursing job in Madisonville, Kentucky.
Job Description & Requirements
Specialty: ICU - Intensive Care Unit
Discipline: RN
Start Date: 08/24/2026
Duration: 13 weeks
36 hours per week
Shift: 12 hours, nights
Employment Type: Travel
An ICU nurse trained in CABG (Coronary Artery Bypass Graft) and CRRT (Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy) manages highly unstable, complex cardiovascular and critically ill patients requiring advanced life support. [1, 2]
CABG (Open-Heart Surgery) Recovery
Hemodynamic Monitoring: Tracking arterial lines, central venous pressure, and cardiac output closely to spot low blood pressure or bleeding early.
Airway & Ventilation: Managing patients on mechanical ventilators immediately post-op and weaning them off breathing tubes when awake.
Chest Tube Maintenance: Monitoring drainage output from the mediastinal and pleural chest tubes to watch for dangerous fluid buildup or cardiac tamponade.
Pacing & Rhythms: Watching for lethal heart rhythm changes and managing temporary epicardial pacemaker wires if the heart rate drops.
CRRT (Continuous Dialysis) Management
Circuit Operation: Priming, setting up, and managing a continuous extracorporeal blood filtration circuit 24 hours a day.
Fluid and Electrolyte Balance: Accurately programming hourly fluid removal goals and replacing electrolytes for patients too fragile for standard intermittent dialysis.
Troubleshooting Alarms: Rapidly identifying and resolving pressure changes, air bubbles, or filter clotting to keep the blood clean and prevent treatment interruptions.
Anticoagulation: Administering regional citrate or systemic heparin safely into the machine circuit to keep the filter from clotting off.
About Malone Healthcare - Nursing
With a commitment to providing a higher standard of service and experience in patient care, Malone Healthcare places expert nurses and allied health professionals in rewarding careers throughout the United States. As a leading healthcare staffing agency, Malone’s focus on compliance and integrity translates to a seamless experience for our team members and partner facilities. When you work with Malone Healthcare, you can rely on over 50 years of proven experience placing exceptional professionals in quality healthcare settings.
Benefits
Weekly pay
Holiday Pay
Guaranteed Hours
Continuing Education
401k retirement plan
Pet insurance
Referral bonus
Medical benefits
Dental benefits
Vision benefits
License and certification reimbursement
Life insurance
Numbers & Facts
Location
Madisonville, KY
Skills
Advanced Life Support (ALS)unmatched
Anticoagulantunmatched
Arterial Linesunmatched
Blood Pressureunmatched
Cardiac Monitoringunmatched
Cardiologyunmatched
Cardiovascularunmatched
Coagulationunmatched
Dialysisunmatched
Emergency Nursingunmatched
Health Planunmatched
Healthcareunmatched
Healthcare Qualityunmatched
Heparinunmatched
Housekeeping/Cleaningunmatched
Identify Issuesunmatched
Intensive Careunmatched
Life Insuranceunmatched
Nursingunmatched
Pacemakerunmatched
Paint Shop Pro Tubesunmatched
Patient Careunmatched
Recruiting/Staffing Agencyunmatched
Registered Nurse (RN)unmatched
Reimbursementunmatched
Renal Replacement Therapyunmatched
Ventilatorunmatched
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