Travel Nurse RN - ICU - Intensive Care Unit

Voca Healthcare is seeking a travel nurse RN ICU
- Intensive Care Unit for a travel nursing job in Waupaca, Wisconsin.

• Specialty:
  ICU
  - Intensive Care Unit
• Discipline:
  RN
• Start Date:
  
  11/09/2026
• Duration:
  13 weeks
• 36 hours per week
• Shift:
  12 hours, nights
• Employment Type:
  
  Travel

Required qualifications

• Active Wisconsin RN license.
• AHA BLS and NIHSS certifications.
• ICU or IMU experience.
• Epic charting experience within the past year.
• Comfortable caring for higher-acuity patients, including some patients on IV drips.
• Associate degree or certificate required.
• BSN strongly preferred, but not required.
• Previous travel experience preferred, not explicitly mandatory in the detailed requirements.

Strongly preferred: Stepdown experience and critical-access hospital experience.

Requirement

Details

Contract length

10 weeks

Shift

12-hour nights, 7 PM–7 AM

Guaranteed hours

36 per week, subject to exceptions

Weekends

Every other weekend

Holidays

Holiday rotation

On-call

None

Scrubs

Black

Patient ratio

Normally 1:5; can reach 1:7

Floating

Within facility and potentially other Theda Care facilities within 60 miles

Missed shifts

Must be made up within two weeks

This is more of a high-acuity Med/Surg or stepdown unit than a traditional ICU. The rural hospital has a 20-bed unit with an average daily census of 12–18 patients.

You should be comfortable with:

• Higher-acuity medical and surgical patients.
• Patients requiring drips and closer monitoring.
• Variable workloads, with nurse-to-patient ratios occasionally reaching 1:7.
• Adapting to a smaller hospital environment and floating when needed.

The posting excludes travelers whose home location or current facility is within 50 miles of Facility.

The manager will call, with the CSM texting MRG according to the posting. Previous travel is preferred, and candidates should be resilient and comfortable with changing assignments.

As a Voca Traveler, you will gain new clinical skills, visit amazing places and meet awesome healthcare professionals.

As a travel health professional, your experience and dedication to patient care is in high demand throughout the United States. Whether you are a veteran traveler looking for your next opportunity, or you are looking to travel for the first time, Voca is here to support you. Voca’s experienced and dedicated travel team works in concert with you every step of the way.

Our long-standing partnerships with some of the most respected and recognized healthcare organizations in the country allow us to identify career opportunities to help you increase your knowledge and experience while working with some of the best physicians and healthcare professionals in the world. At Voca, we strongly believe a better career results in a happier you. We are here to help you find a position that is professionally and personally rewarding.

• Holiday Pay
• 401k retirement plan
• Medical benefits
• Dental benefits
• Vision benefits
• Guaranteed Hours