ICU Travel Nurse - Metairie, LA

This ICU travel nurse position in Metairie, Louisiana, with Advantis Medical is a 13-week Travel ICU Registered Nurse (RN) contract at East Jefferson General Hospital. This role pays $2,749 per week and follows a Days shift with a 4x12 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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Travel Nursing Requirements

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

East Jefferson General Hospital - Metairie, LA

East Jefferson General Hospital is a 420-bed not-for-profit community hospital in Metairie (East Bank of Jefferson Parish), part of LCMC Health since 2020 and now the clinical home of Tulane University School of Medicine - an expanding academic specialty hub.

• The only Louisiana hospital to earn ANCC Magnet recognition for five consecutive terms (Louisiana's first Magnet hospital, in 2002).
• New critical-care units including a Neuroscience ICU and a Surgical ICU, plus the Tulane Transplant Institute and a Bone Marrow Transplant unit.
• Heart & Vascular care, cancer care (Yenni Treatment Center), and women's health.
• A 24/7 emergency department serving the East Bank community.
• Academic-medicine backing as the clinical home of Tulane University School of Medicine.