Travel RN - ICU
Elizabethtown, Kentucky
Staffing partner
Posted Aug 20
- Shift
- 12-hour nights
- Hours a week
- 36
- Unit
- CVICU
- Contract
- 13 weeks
What the listing says
Role
- Schedule
- 12-hour nights · 3 a week · 36 hours
- Weekends
- Weekends required
- Term
- 13 weeks · starts Sep 28, 2026 · Travel
- Setting
- Hospital
- Accepts
- RN
- Staffing partner
- American Traveler
Ratio not posted. Ask in the interview.
Pay
About this role
Assignment Overview
- Shift: Nights, 3x12hrs
- Hours: 36 hrs/wk
- Start Date: Sep 28, 2026
- Length: 13 weeks
- Openings: 1
American Traveler is hiring an experienced Cardiovascular ICU RN for a night shift contract requiring hands-on CRRT and IABP management skills.
Details
- Cardiovascular ICU (CVICU) setting managing high-acuity cardiac surgery, cardiogenic shock, and post-cardiac intervention patients
- Night shift
schedule
7p-7a, 3x12 (36 hours/week)
- Weekend and holiday rotation required
Requirements
- Active RN license (KY or compact) required
- Recent ICU experience required, ideally in a cardiac/CVICU or high-acuity surgical ICU setting
- Direct hands-on CRRT management experience required (setup, monitoring, troubleshooting)
- Direct hands-on IABP management experience required (waveform monitoring, site care, troubleshooting)
- BLS and ACLS certifications required
- CCRN certification preferred
- ADN or ASN required; BSN preferred
- Experience with other mechanical circulatory support (Impella, ECMO) preferred
- Cardiac surgery post-op recovery experience preferred
Additional Information
- Provide direct patient care including comprehensive assessments, care planning, and treatment implementation for high-acuity cardiac ICU patients
- Facilitate patient admission, transfer, and discharge activities including discharge teaching and coordination with case management
- Deliver patient and family-centered education and support throughout the care process
- Delegate and oversee patient care tasks performed by other care team members
- Participate in unit-based quality improvement activities and core measures
- Collaborate closely with an interdisciplinary care team to support a holistic, healing-focused environment
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Requirements
- Active RN license (KY or compact) required
- Recent ICU experience required, ideally in a cardiac/CVICU or high-acuity surgical ICU setting
- Direct hands-on CRRT management experience required (setup, monitoring, troubleshooting)
- Direct hands-on IABP management experience required (waveform monitoring, site care, troubleshooting)
- BLS and ACLS certifications required
- CCRN certification preferred
- ADN or ASN required; BSN preferred
- Experience with other mechanical circulatory support (Impella, ECMO) preferred
- Cardiac surgery post-op recovery experience preferred
Place
- City
- Elizabethtown, Kentucky
- Median rent
- $909/mo
- Local household income
- $60,760/yr
- Metro price level
- 9% below the national average
rent and tenant-paid utilities · Census ACS 2024
all local households, not nurse pay · Census ACS 2024
Elizabethtown area index 90.6, where 100 is the national average.
Elizabethtown sits along I-65 in central Kentucky, roughly 45 miles south of Louisville. The community blends small-town ease with growing healthcare and retail options, and Fort Knox lies just to the north. For nurses seeking a quieter pace with easy highway access to Louisville and Nashville, E-town offers a practical middle ground.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 metro Regional Price Parities · Census ACS 2024.
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