ICU Travel Nurse - Palo Alto, CA

This ICU travel nurse position in Palo Alto, California, with Advantis Medical is a 13-week Travel ICU Registered Nurse (RN) contract at Stanford Health Care. This role pays $2,950 per week and follows a Variable 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.

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 California RN License

Stanford Health Care's Palo Alto hospital campus includes two adjoining inpatient buildings. This academic medical center holds ANCC Magnet recognition and provides medical, surgical and transplant care.

• Adult emergency care at the newer hospital operates around the clock, with ACS Level I trauma recognition. Stanford also holds Joint Commission Comprehensive Stroke Center certification.
• Acute and transitional care spans general medicine, cardiovascular illness, oncology, neurosciences and orthopedics, alongside surgical and transplant populations.
• Critical care includes dedicated medical, surgical/trauma and neuroscience ICUs, providing distinct settings for patients who require intensive treatment and monitoring.
• Transplant programs include heart, lung, liver, kidney and combined kidney-pancreas transplantation, with care before surgery and after transplantation.
• Perioperative services include operating rooms, preoperative care and a post-anesthesia care unit, alongside procedural services in cardiac catheterization, angiography and endoscopy.