ICU Travel Nurse

This ICU travel nurse position in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, with Advantis Medical is a 13-week Travel ICU Registered Nurse (RN) contract at Baptist Health - Hardin. This role pays $3,011 per week and follows a Days shift with a 3x12 schedule.

As the ICU registered nurse on this assignment, you'll care for critically ill patients on continuous monitoring, titrate critical infusions as ordered, manage ventilated patients, and act immediately on signs of deterioration with the critical care team.

Advantis Medical supports travel clinicians with streamlined credentialing to help with fast start dates, free license support and renewals, and Day 1 benefits.

• Manage critically ill patients requiring continuous hemodynamic monitoring and frequent reassessment
• Titrate vasoactive, sedation, and other high-alert drips as ordered and per facility protocol
• Care for mechanically ventilated patients and manage critical care devices, including arterial and central lines
• Respond to clinical deterioration and participate in codes and rapid responses

• 2+ years of recent ICU nursing experience
• Active Kentucky RN License

Baptist Health Hardin is an acute care hospital in Elizabethtown with medical, surgical, maternity and cancer services across its hospital campus.

• Its Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center provides emergency evaluation and treatment for suspected stroke.
• Critical care includes a cardiac intensive care unit and a surgical intensive care unit that treats postoperative patients and patients with medical critical-care needs.
• A progressive care unit serves adult and geriatric patients stepping down from intensive care, including patients recovering from cardiac illness or stroke.
• Operative services include hip and knee replacement. The campus medical pavilion adds a hybrid operating room and cardiac catheterization labs to the hospital's procedural facilities.
• Maternity services are supported by the Kosair for Kids Level II NICU for newborns needing specialized care.
• The Hardin Cancer Center in the campus medical pavilion treats solid tumors, blood cancers and benign blood disorders, using chemotherapy, targeted therapy, immunotherapy and radiation.