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Travel Registered Nurse - Pediatric Intensive Care Float - Aurora, CO

Cross Country Healthcare logoCross Country Healthcare$2,962/wkContractPosted 2d agoStill open, checked every night

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This assignment posts $2,962 a week, the agency's gross: a taxable hourly rate plus housing and meal stipends. Open travel ICU nurse assignments post a median of $2,204 a week, the middle half $1,983 to $2,432, across 1,629 assignments, so this one is above the middle half of what they post. Staff pay is hourly and carries no stipends, so it is not set beside it.

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  • Nurse staffing committee or plan: Colorado hospitals must have a nurse staffing committee, 60 percent clinical staff nurses, that builds an annual master staffing plan sent to the state. C.R.S. § 25-3-128(2)(a) (source: C.R.S. § 25-3-128(2)(a))

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About the job

Travel assignment, 14 weeks, 12hr nights, 36 hours a week, starting 15 Dec 2026.

Pay as Cross Country posts it: about $2,962 a week in all, a taxable rate of $31.34 an hour plus $1,834 a week in housing and meal stipends.

Job Summary

Registered Nurse, Pediatric Intensive Care Float, Colorado - The role supports a critical care float team providing pediatric intensive care across multiple clinical settings. The assignment requires flexibility to support intensive care and acute care units, pediatric patient observation, and varying weekend scheduling needs.

Job Details

  • Schedule: Night shift, 12-hour shifts from 6:45 PM to 7:15 AM, with a minimum of 36 hours per week.
  • Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) required.
  • Colorado Registered Nurse (RN) license required.
  • Minimum of 2 years of pediatric critical care experience required.
  • Prior travel experience required; first-time travel Registered Nurses (RN) are not accepted.
  • Basic Life Support (BLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) through the American Heart Association (AHA), and Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) through the American Heart Association (AHA) required.
  • Preferred Qualifications:
  • Prior float team experience preferred.
  • Intensive care unit experience required for critical care float team assignments.
  • Float: Float rotation may be required.
  • Additional Information:
  • 13-week assignment from 12/15/2026 through 03/20/2027.
  • Float assignments may include pediatric intensive care, neonatal intensive care, cardiac intensive care, acute care floors at North and South Campuses, and one-to-one patient observation.
  • Weekend coverage is required every third weekend.
  • No on-call requirement.
  • December and holiday time-off requests are not approved, and time-off is not approved during the first two weeks of the assignment.
  • Medical and religious influenza vaccination exemption requests are permitted; a completed exemption request form must be included in the submission package.

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

From Cross Country Healthcare's job posting for Aurora, CO, checked 9 Nov 2026. The employer's own page is the final word on requirements and availability.

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About Cross Country Healthcare

National healthcare staffing company in Boca Raton, Florida, placing travel nurses, allied professionals and therapists, with local contract and per diem work too. Source: Cross Country, Travel FAQs

Based in Boca Raton, FLHires in 51 statesPay on its listings: 0.6% of its open jobs state an hourly rate

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