Travel Registered Nurse - Intensive Care Unit Cardiovascular - Monterey, CA

Travel assignment, 13 weeks, 12hr days, 36 hours a week, starting 30 Nov 2026.

Pay as Cross Country posts it: about $2,754 a week in all, a taxable rate of $25 an hour plus $1,854.45 a week in housing and meal stipends.

Job Summary

Registered Nurse, Intensive Care Unit Cardiovascular. This role provides critical care for complex cardiovascular and cardiothoracic patients, including immediate postoperative care for open-heart surgery patients. The position requires strong critical care knowledge, the ability to manage drips and bedside procedures, and readiness to support a collaborative intensive care environment.

Job Details

• Schedule: Day shifts consisting of 12-hour shifts from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., with a minimum of 36 hours per week; every other weekend and one major winter holiday are required.
• Required Qualifications: Three years of experience; current Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certification from the American Heart Association (AHA), Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from the American Heart Association (AHA), and National Institute of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certification; cardiovascular intensive care experience; open-heart postoperative experience within the past year; experience caring for intensive care patients with chest tubes and rapid-sequence intubation; ability to manage critical care drips; knowledge of sepsis recognition and management; ability to receive fresh postoperative open-heart patients and provide immediate care; and ability to read and interpret continuous cardiac monitoring.
• Preferred Qualifications: Recent postoperative open-heart experience within the past six months; experience with insulin infusion management, specialized critical care beds, infusion pumps, cardiac monitoring systems, ventilators, continuous renal replacement therapy, and post-catheterization recovery.
• Additional Information:
• Provides care for cardiovascular and cardiothoracic patients, including coronary artery bypass grafting, aortic and mitral valve replacement, aortic dissection, thoracotomy, carotid procedures, stroke, respiratory distress, sepsis, mechanical ventilation, intra-aortic balloon pump therapy, and other complex critical care conditions.
• Receives and manages immediate postoperative open-heart patients on postoperative day zero.
• Performs and supports bedside procedures, including intubations, line insertions, chest tube management, and post-catheterization recovery.
• Manages one-to-two patient assignments in a 20-bed intensive care setting.
• Uses continuous cardiac monitoring with 24-hour monitoring support and responds to codes and rapid responses.
• Collaborates with intensivists, hospitalists, respiratory therapists, and other members of the multidisciplinary care team.
• May float to a telemetry assignment when required, with orientation provided for the temporary assignment.
• Uses structured communication practices, including Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation (SBAR) and Concerned-Uncomfortable-unsafe-Stop (CUSS).

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