Travel Registered Nurse - Intensive Care Unit Cardiovascular - Parkesburg, WV

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

Pay as Cross Country posts it: about $2,449 a week in all, a taxable rate of $32.83 an hour plus $1,267 a week in housing and meal stipends.

Job Summary

Registered Nurse, Cardiovascular Intensive Care - acute care night-shift position caring for high-acuity cardiovascular and postoperative patients. The role supports patients requiring advanced monitoring, ventilator management, titratable intravenous medications, and cardiovascular intensive care interventions.

Job Details

• Schedule: 12-hour night shifts, averaging 36 hours per week; every other weekend and holidays as needed. Self-scheduling and block-scheduling requests may be accommodated based on unit staffing needs.
• Required Qualifications:
• Minimum of 2 years of registered nursing experience
• Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certifications from the American Heart Association (AHA)
• Experience caring for patients more than 6 hours after open-heart surgery
• Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) experience
• Temporary and permanent pacemaker experience
• Acute myocardial infarction (MI) pre- and post-catheterization experience
• Mediastinal and chest tube management experience
• Ventilator and arterial line experience
• Hypothermia protocol experience
• Experience titrating cardiovascular and critical care medications
• Preferred Qualifications:
• Fresh open-heart surgery experience
• Intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) experience
• Impella experience
• Hemodynamic monitoring and Swan-Ganz experience
• Additional Information:
• Patient populations include atrial fibrillation, heart blocks, bradycardia, non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI), ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), cardiac arrest, hyper- and hypotension, pulmonary embolisms, cardiogenic shock, heart failure, coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), valve surgery, and thoracic procedures such as video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) and lobectomy.
• Nurse-to-patient ratios range from 1:1 for fresh postoperative cardiac surgery patients and patients with devices, to 1:2 for intensive care patients and 1:3 for step-down patients.
• Common titratable or set-rate medications include Cardizem, Cordarone, Cardene, nitroglycerin, esmolol, Cleviprex, milrinone, dopamine, dobutamine, Lasix, Bumex, epinephrine, Levophed, vasopressin, insulin, heparin, Aggrastat, Precedex, propofol, Versed, and fentanyl.
• Registered nurses read cardiac rhythms every four hours, while monitor technicians observe telemetry remotely and nurses address alarms.
• Respiratory therapy coverage is available in the intensive care unit 24/7, with access to ventilators, tracheostomy ventilators, bilevel positive airway pressure (BiPAP), continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), high-flow oxygen, and Trilogy equipment.
• Travel staff may float to acute care, intensive care, medical-surgical, and telemetry assignments; medical-surgical and telemetry assignments may include up to six patients.
• Orientation includes one week of modules, electronic charting training, and unit-based orientation with a registered nurse.
• Royal blue scrubs are required.

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