Travel Nurse RN - ICU - Intensive Care Unit

Job Description & Requirements

Ethos Medical Staffing is seeking a travel nurse RN ICU - Intensive Care Unit for a travel nursing job in Shreveport, Louisiana.

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

• Acute Stroke Ready Hospital
• 189 Licensed beds
• General Information
• Beds: 9
• Years of
  
  Experience:
  
  2 years
• Will Accept a First-time traveler?:
  Yes
• Travelers must be separated for 1 year if previously a perm staff
• Covid policy:
  Vaccine required, exemption process
• Patient Types: PCU/Critical care patients – ICU RN needed; AFIB/RVR, DKA, HTN, COPD, ARF, Heart caths, ACDF (Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion), etc. Not limited to CVA/TIA’s. We take Stepdown overflow. Same level of care.
• Patient Ratios: RN: 1:3; CNA: 1:9
• Required
  
  Certifications:
  
  BLS, ACLS, NIH
• Skills required:
  
  ICU RN;
  Titratable gtts:
  Cardene, Cardizem, insulin, heparin, neo, levophed. Any critical care gtt. We do not do TPA, that is in ICU only. Critical care experience, ISTAT, chest tube, traches, CSF (lumbar) drains, Peritoneal Dialysis, Insulin/Heparin gtts
• Traveler will be required to PASS an EKG competency exam as part of compliance, prior to arrival (includes Med Surg RN)
• Support on the Unit:
  Charge nurse: may have patient assignment;
  Phlebotomy – in house; IV/VAT Team – available 7a-3p; RT – in house;
  Hospitalist available – in house; OT, PT, ST;
  Telemetry monitoring: cardiac monitors in each patient room that is connecting to space lab in nurse’s station;
  Remote monitoring as backup;
  Nurse responsible for main monitoring and printing strips for each patient per shift.
• Charting System/Equipment: EMR:
  Meditech Expanse; IV Pumps:
  Alaris;
  Medication dispensing:
  Pyxis

• Units:
  Stepdown, ICU (Critical Care), Occasionally Medsurg with ratios of 1:5 (Days) and 1:6 (Nights)
• Orientation:
  Orientation given to WKP – Stroke unit, Stepdown and ICU
• Scheduling:
  Weekend rotation: every other;
  Will work 4 days one week and 3 days the next week – this is mandatory;
  Night shift will be required to work a 5/2 schedule as illustrated below:
  One group works EVERY Mon/Tues on the schedule creating a (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday week followed by working Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Saturday the next) They work 5 on, 5 off, 2 on, 2 off;
  The other group work the opposite working EVERY Wed/Thurs (Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday then followed by Wed, Thurs, Fri, Sat) They work 5 off, 5 on, 2 off, 2 on
• Can we approve time off? 7 days
• Will they be on call? If so, what is that schedule? No call
• Holiday Expectations: yes, confirm rotation

Other notes:
Scrub Color:
Galaxy Blue;
Parking: free in designated areas;
Culture on the unit: traveler friendly

Ethos Medical Staffing Job  #. Pay package is based on 12 hour shifts and 36.0 hours per week (subject to confirmation) with tax-free stipend amount to be determined. Posted job title: RN ICU

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• Benefits start day 1
• Weekly pay
• 401k retirement plan
• Guaranteed Hours
• Mileage reimbursement
• Medical benefits
• Dental benefits
• License and certification reimbursement
• Referral bonus