Travel Registered Nurse - Intensive Care Unit - Anchorage, AK

Travel assignment, 13 weeks, 12hr rotating, 36 hours a week, starting November 23, 2026.

Pay as Cross Country posts it: about $2,251 a week in all, a taxable rate of $20 an hour plus $1,530.77 a week in housing and meal stipends.

Job Summary

Registered Nurse, Intensive Care Unit, Alaska. This travel assignment supports care for adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients in a high-acuity intensive care setting. The role requires advanced critical care experience, strong clinical judgment, and proficiency with complex monitoring, ventilator management, cardiac interventions, and neurological care.

Job Details

• Schedule: Rotating shifts, 3 twelve-hour shifts per week, with a minimum of 36 hours per week. The assignment is 13 weeks, beginning 11/23/2026, with weekend coverage as needed and willingness to work two of three major holidays.
• Required Qualifications: Alaska Registered Nurse license required; pending licenses may be accepted, but the license must be in hand for an automatic offer. Minimum of 2 years of experience, including travel experience; required certifications include Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS), and Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC). Required experience with Epic charting and a typical patient ratio of 2:1.
• Additional Information: Responsibilities include care of patients with medical and surgical cardiac conditions, open-heart recovery needs, neurological interventions, stroke, sepsis, respiratory failure, trauma, spinal cord injury, and targeted temperature management. Clinical competencies include arterial line management, chest tube care, bilevel positive airway pressure and continuous positive airway pressure management, blood product administration, ventilator care, central line management, renal failure care, continuous intravenous sedation, acute stroke management, external ventricular drain care, intracranial pressure monitoring, arterial blood gas interpretation, dysrhythmia management, intra-aortic balloon pump monitoring, intravenous insulin protocols, neuro-intensive care, peripherally inserted central catheter management, cardiac surgery recovery, cardiac catheterization care, procedural sedation monitoring, pulmonary artery line monitoring, sheath removal, spinal cord injury care, intravenous access, suctioning, cardiac and vasoactive drip titration, transcatheter aortic valve replacement care, traumatic brain injury care, and ventilator management. Support is available from respiratory services, physical therapy, pharmacy, radiology, phlebotomy, social services, rapid response teams, interpretation services, lift teams, and unit secretaries.

Benefits

The benefits of taking a travel assignment with Cross Country include:

• Private housing or generous housing allowance
• Comprehensive health insurance with prescription coverage
• Dependent health insurance with prescription coverage
• Competitive salaries
• Referral bonuses
• Travel reimbursement
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Direct deposit/free checking
• Unlimited free CE credits