ICU Travel Nurse

This ICU travel nurse position in Hazard, Kentucky, with Advantis Medical is a 13-week Travel ICU Registered Nurse (RN) contract at Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center. This role pays $2,127 per week and follows a Nights 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

Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center — Hazard, KY

Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center is a roughly 358-bed nonprofit acute-care hospital and the regional referral center for the Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH) system across eastern Kentucky's Central Appalachia, serving roughly ten mountain counties. Travel nurses work a rural referral hub with cardiac, cancer, and behavioral-health depth uncommon for its size.

• A Level IV Trauma Center and a DNV Primary Stroke Center, with ICU and med-surg units serving as the area's critical-care resource.
• An open-heart surgery program and cardiac catheterization, delivered through an ARH partnership with the University of Kentucky's Gill Heart Institute (a UK cardiothoracic surgeon based in Hazard performs coronary-bypass and valve surgery).
• The Hazard ARH Cancer Center and an accredited Breast Center, keeping cancer care close to home.
• Obstetrics and women's health, general/robotic/bariatric surgery, and a hyperbaric wound-care program.
• The adjacent Hazard ARH Psychiatric Center — the designated acute mental-health facility for a 21-county region — plus an on-campus long-term acute care hospital.