Travel Registered Nurse - Intensive Care Unit - Bangor, ME

Travel assignment, 13 weeks, 12hr nights, 48 hours a week, starting 15 Dec 2026.

Pay as Cross Country posts it: about $3,126 a week in all, a taxable rate of $35.75 an hour plus $1,267 a week in housing and meal stipends.

Job Summary

Intensive Care Unit, Bangor, ME. This position provides critical care for medical, surgical, trauma, neurological, orthopedic, and interventional patients in a Level II trauma setting. The role requires strong assessment skills and experience managing complex critical care patients, including those requiring ventilator management, critical care drips, external ventricular drains, and intracranial pressure monitoring.

Job Details

• Schedule: Nights, 12-hour shifts, 48 hours per week.
• Required Qualifications: Minimum of 2 years of Intensive Care Unit experience; Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certifications; National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certification; neuro and trauma experience; experience with external ventricular drains (EVD), intracranial pressure monitoring (ICP), ventilator management, critical care drips, drain management, hemodynamic lines, cardiac rhythm recognition, chest tubes, tracheostomy care, and stroke patients.
• Preferred Qualifications: Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification and pediatric intensive care experience.
• Additional Information:
• Patient assignments are generally 1:2 based on acuity and may include a third patient during a discharge or transfer.
• Patient populations include medical, surgical, trauma, neurological, orthopedic, and interventional cases, including diabetic ketoacidosis, multisystem trauma, sepsis, acute respiratory distress syndrome, pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and stroke.
• Every-other-weekend rotation is expected, with night-shift weekend coverage typically scheduled Friday and Saturday.
• No on-call requirement is scheduled.
• Orientation includes general facility orientation followed by one shift on the unit.
• Holiday scheduling varies according to operational needs, with holiday requests subject to approval.
• Twenty-four-hour support is available from respiratory therapy, hospitalist services, and intensivist consultation.

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