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Travel Registered Nurse - Pediatric Intensive Care Unit - Seattle, WA

Cross Country Healthcare logoCross Country Healthcare$2,310–$2,543/wkContractPosted 2d agoStill open, checked every night

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How this pay compares

This assignment posts $2,427 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 within 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: Each Washington hospital must have a staffing committee, at least half nonsupervisory direct care nursing staff, that develops the hospital staffing plan. RCW 70.41.420(1) (source: RCW 70.41.420(1))
  • Limits on mandatory overtime: Health care facilities may not require covered employees to work overtime, except for unforeseeable emergent circumstances, prescheduled on-call time within limits and procedures in progress (covers hourly or collectively bargained employees in direct patient care at health care facilities, including nurses (definition RCW 49.28.140 (source: RCW 49.28.140)

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About the job

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

Pay as Cross Country posts it: about $2,543 a week in all, a taxable rate of $21.50 an hour plus $1,769.04 a week in housing and meal stipends.

Job Summary

Pediatric Intensive Care Unit position; location not specified. The role provides care to infants, children, and adolescents requiring critical care services, including ventilator management, procedural sedation, central line care, and blood product administration. The position includes night shifts, weekend coverage, orientation, and potential floating to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit or other units within the clinician’s skill set.

Job Details

  • Schedule: Night shift, 12 hours per shift, with a minimum of 36 hours per week; every other weekend required.
  • Required Qualifications:
  • Two years of critical care experience.
  • Basic Life Support (BLS) and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certifications required.
  • Experience caring for pediatric critical care patients, including ventilated patients and patients requiring breathing treatments, chest tube care, tracheostomy care, blood and blood product administration, central line and implanted line care, Continuous Venous Pressure (CVP) monitoring, Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC) management, procedural sedation, intravenous therapy, wound care, and pediatric dosage calculations.
  • Preferred Qualifications:
  • Charge experience.
  • Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) certification.
  • Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) experience or certification.
  • Experience with charting systems.
  • Float: Float rotation may be required.
  • Additional Information:
  • Patient population includes infants, children, and adolescents.
  • Patient assignments may include a ratio of two patients per nurse.
  • Orientation is provided.
  • Clinical responsibilities may include care related to ear, nose, and throat (ENT) conditions, general surgery, orthopedic care, and preoperative or postoperative services.
  • Additional procedures and equipment may include Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP), bilevel positive airway pressure (BiPAP), high-frequency ventilation, oscillators, Rapid Sequence Intubation (RSI) medications, drains, epidural pumps, Patient-Controlled Analgesia (PCA) pumps, vascular access devices, syringe pumps, traction, halo and pin care, triple-lumen catheters, and wound vacuums.

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 Seattle, WA, 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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