Travel Nurse RN - ICU - Intensive Care Unit

IDR Healthcare is seeking a travel nurse RN ICU - Intensive Care Unit for a travel nursing job in Rapid City, South Dakota.

• Specialty:
  ICU - Intensive Care Unit
• Discipline:
  RN
• Start Date:
  
  03/23/2026
• Duration:
  13 weeks
• 48 hours per week
• Shift:
  12 hours, days
• Employment Type:
  
  Travel

Registered Nurse (RN) – Intensive Care Unit (ICU)

Rapid City, South Dakota
13-Week Travel Contract | 4x12 Days | 48 Hours Guaranteed

Seeking an experienced ICU RN for a high-acuity, mixed medical-surgical critical care environment. This is a 48-hour contract and is not negotiable — candidates must be comfortable working 4x12s weekly.

The unit includes MICU, SICU, CICU, and TICU patient populations within a 39-bed ICU divided into pods. This role requires strong clinical judgment and comfort managing complex, critically ill adult patients.

Minimum one prior travel assignment required. First-time travelers will not be considered.

• 4x12 Hour Day Shift
• 7:00 AM – 7:00 PM
• 48 hours guaranteed weekly
• 13-week assignment
• Every other weekend (not guaranteed)
• No call required

• Medical, surgical, cardiac, neuro, and trauma ICU
• ARDS, MI, CVA/TIA, COVID
• Post-cardiac cath
• Post-surgical patients
• Multi-system trauma (heavy trauma population)

Cardiac experience preferred (CABG/TAVR 24–48 hrs post-op).
Fresh open hearts assigned only if experienced and appropriate.

• 1:1
• 1:2
• 1:3 (rare; acuity dependent)

• Minimum 2 years ICU experience (excluding travel experience preferred)
• Experience with:
  • Vasopressors, sedation, paralytics
  • Hemodynamic monitoring
  • Proning
  • Ventilator management
  • Telemetry
• Comfortable in fast-paced, high-acuity setting
• Epic experience required

Strongly Preferred:
Impella, IABP, CRRT experience

• Not common unless overstaffed
• May float to adult med/surg or telemetry (1:4 ratio)
• ICU RNs may float to ED if qualified
• PCU RNs may float to ICU if qualified

• BLS
• ACLS
• NIHSS
• TNCC (must obtain prior to start if not currently held)

• Must live 100+ miles from facility
• No RTO during holidays
• Up to 7 days RTO allowed (must extend contract to accommodate)
• May be expected to precept students
• Navy scrubs
• Free parking

ICU RN – 4x12 Days | 48 hrs/week (required). 2+ yrs ICU experience required (excluding travel preferred). Epic required. BLS, ACLS, NIHSS, TNCC required. Mixed MICU/SICU/CICU/TICU. Impella, IABP, CRRT preferred. 100+ mile radius required. No first-time travelers.

IDR Healthcare is an awarding winning staffing firm that believes it is a privilege and awesome responsibility to serve those who selflessly care for others. Our mission is to empower healthcare professionals to achieve their fullest potential both personally and professionally while they create positive change within the healthcare community.

We exercise true grit, tenacity, and authenticity while embracing and ownership mindset to go above and beyond providing healthcare professionals a world class experience.

We are employee owned and our travelers and clinicians earn shares/equity by just completing multiple assignments!

We have been named SIA’s Fastest Growing Staffing Firms and have won Clearly Rated® Best of Staffing for 11 consecutive years! This cements our commitment to clinician satisfaction earning top net promoter scores putting us in the top 2% of agencies in North America!

Help us give back! For every booked assignment, proceeds are donated to St. Jude and Feeding America! Last year we raised over $18,000 for St. Jude and provided over 49,000 meals for children in need.

#Travel Far With IDR and see what it is all about!

• Weekly pay
• 401k retirement plan
• Referral bonus
• Medical benefits
• Dental benefits
• License and certification reimbursement
• Vision benefits