RN license Required: Registered Nurse licensure applicable to the assignment, basic life support, and emergency room experience; critical care, acute care, or hospital experience is valuable.
Term
Travel
Do you qualify?
License
Registered Nurse licensure applicable to the assignment, basic life support, and emergency room experience; critical care, acute care, or hospital experience is valuable.Required: Registered Nurse licensure applicable to the assignment, basic life support, and emergency room experience; critical care, acute care, or hospital experience is valuable.
Familiarity with EMR/EHR systems; Epic and Cerner experience are relevant examples.
Experience
Additional experience in urgent care, dialysis, geriatrics, behavioral health, or long-term care may be useful.
Also asks
Demonstrated skills in triage, patient care, medication administration, IV insertion, and medical documentation; knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and medical terminology.
Also asks
Other listed specialties and systems—including ophthalmology, occupational health, Athenahealth, and eClinicalWorks—are not core emergency nursing requirements.
Preferred
Experience
Level I or Level II trauma center, intensive care unit (ICU), telemetry, pediatric, or critical care transport experience.Preferred: Level I or Level II trauma center, intensive care unit (ICU), telemetry, pediatric, or critical care transport experience.
What it pays
Against similar roles
Pays above most Texas travel rolesTexas travel postings that state pay run $1,520/week to $2,470/week, the middle half $1,750/week to $2,230/week, across 415 postings.
The Travel Emergency Room Registered Nurse provides focused, responsive care to patients in fast-paced emergency settings. This role calls for sound clinical judgment, clear communication, and the ability to adapt to changing patient needs and facility workflows. Travel assignments may involve varied patient populations, acuity levels, and electronic health record systems.
Responsibilities
Perform triage, patient assessment, diagnostic evaluation, and ongoing monitoring, including vital signs and acute pain management.
Deliver emergency and acute care, including medication administration, IV insertion and infusion, phlebotomy, catheter care, suturing, and airway management within scope and facility protocols.
Support trauma response, critical care, infection control, and patient stabilization; coordinate with the care team on treatment and disposition.
Maintain accurate medical documentation and records in electronic medical record (EMR) and electronic health record (EHR) systems while protecting patient privacy under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
Your impact: Timely assessment and coordinated emergency care help patients receive appropriate treatment and support safer transitions from the emergency department.
Qualifications
Required: Registered Nurse licensure applicable to the assignment, basic life support, and emergency room experience; critical care, acute care, or hospital experience is valuable.
Demonstrated skills in triage, patient care, medication administration, IV insertion, and medical documentation; knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and medical terminology.
Familiarity with EMR/EHR systems; Epic and Cerner experience are relevant examples.
Preferred: Level I or Level II trauma center, intensive care unit (ICU), telemetry, pediatric, or critical care transport experience.
Additional experience in urgent care, dialysis, geriatrics, behavioral health, or long-term care may be useful. Other listed specialties and systems—including ophthalmology, occupational health, Athenahealth, and eClinicalWorks—are not core emergency nursing requirements.
Neighborhoods+Downtown Houston is an urban loft-and-high-rise pocket aimed at students, singles, and young professionals, with a $320,117 median purchase price, $1,756 average rent, University of Houston-Downtown nearby, and a crime rating safer than 73% of Houston neighborhoods. Midtown ranks #3 on Niche’s 2026 Houston-area list: walkable, artsy, transit-accessible, and increasingly the place to live near downtown. Families cluster in Kingwood and Sugar Land, Spring Branch (parks and schools), and Cinco Ranch—Niche’s #1 suburb, population 18,611, with neighborhood pools, highly graded public schools, parks, and playgrounds. Museum Park and the Astrodome Area also carry A+ Niche grades and sit close to the Medical Center; Taylor Lake Village is a small-town Clear Lake suburb with Clear Creek ISD and a short drive to the Medical Center, Kemah, and Galveston Bay. Commuter “golden zones” are discussed relative to Downtown, the Texas Medical Center, and the Energy Corridor.
Downtown Houston is an urban loft-and-high-rise pocket aimed at students, singles, and young professionals, with a $320,117 median purchase price, $1,756 average rent, University of Houston-Downtown nearby, and a crime rating safer than 73% of Houston neighborhoods. Midtown ranks #3 on Niche’s 2026 Houston-area list: walkable, artsy, transit-accessible, and increasingly the place to live near downtown.
Families cluster in Kingwood and Sugar Land, Spring Branch (parks and schools), and Cinco Ranch—Niche’s #1 suburb, population 18,611, with neighborhood pools, highly graded public schools, parks, and playgrounds. Museum Park and the Astrodome Area also carry A+ Niche grades and sit close to the Medical Center; Taylor Lake Village is a small-town Clear Lake suburb with Clear Creek ISD and a short drive to the Medical Center, Kemah, and Galveston Bay.
Commuter “golden zones” are discussed relative to Downtown, the Texas Medical Center, and the Energy Corridor.
Getting around+Houston is vast sprawl; locals and realtors repeat the same rule: live as close to your workplace as you reasonably can. Average commute is cited at 27 minutes, but that hides huge variance—Katy commenters warn you to hotel overnight and drive both morning and afternoon rushes, with 45-minute-plus runs common, while Sugar Land and Beltway-adjacent areas are recommended for Downtown at roughly 40 minutes to well over an hour in traffic. Primary job nodes named for suburb ranking are Downtown, the Texas Medical Center, and the Energy Corridor. A car is treated as mandatory; public transit is limited (Metro bus from IAH into Downtown; cab about $55 from IAH and about $45 from Hobby). Heavy traffic and thin transit are among the most consistent complaints.
Houston is vast sprawl; locals and realtors repeat the same rule: live as close to your workplace as you reasonably can. Average commute is cited at 27 minutes, but that hides huge variance—Katy commenters warn you to hotel overnight and drive both morning and afternoon rushes, with 45-minute-plus runs common, while Sugar Land and Beltway-adjacent areas are recommended for Downtown at roughly 40 minutes to well over an hour in traffic.
Primary job nodes named for suburb ranking are Downtown, the Texas Medical Center, and the Energy Corridor. A car is treated as mandatory; public transit is limited (Metro bus from IAH into Downtown; cab about $55 from IAH and about $45 from Hobby).
Heavy traffic and thin transit are among the most consistent complaints.
Outdoors+Buffalo Bayou Park is the signature urban greenway, with Downtown skyline views, the Waugh Drive Bat Colony, the Cistern, Johnny Steele Dog Park, and a skate park. Hermann Park offers a kid-friendly train; Memorial Park is the city’s largest greenspace, with Land Bridges and the Eastern Glades (opened 2020) and is compared locally to Central Park. Discovery Green is a 12-acre downtown oasis with Kinder Lake bumper/cruiser boats, the John P. McGovern Playground, and fitness-in-the-park programming. Trails support walking, running, hiking, and group bike rides; the Houston Arboretum is a named hiking destination. On the southeast side, Taylor Lake, Clear Lake, and Galveston Bay support boating, fishing, and kayaking; Go Ape zipline sits at 18427 Southwest Freeway and Geronimo Adventure Park is at 6749 FM 2920.
Buffalo Bayou Park is the signature urban greenway, with Downtown skyline views, the Waugh Drive Bat Colony, the Cistern, Johnny Steele Dog Park, and a skate park. Hermann Park offers a kid-friendly train; Memorial Park is the city’s largest greenspace, with Land Bridges and the Eastern Glades (opened 2020) and is compared locally to Central Park.
Discovery Green is a 12-acre downtown oasis with Kinder Lake bumper/cruiser boats, the John P. McGovern Playground, and fitness-in-the-park programming. Trails support walking, running, hiking, and group bike rides; the Houston Arboretum is a named hiking destination.
On the southeast side, Taylor Lake, Clear Lake, and Galveston Bay support boating, fishing, and kayaking; Go Ape zipline sits at 18427 Southwest Freeway and Geronimo Adventure Park is at 6749 FM 2920.
Houston is distinct for nurses because of the Texas Medical Center—one of the world’s largest medical complexes—plus no state income tax and housing that still undercuts most big U.S. cities. Midtown, Museum Park, and the Astrodome Area sit near TMC; Downtown lofts average about $1,756 a month. Families often choose Cinco Ranch, Sugar Land, Kingwood, or Spring Branch, but Katy-style suburbs can mean 45-minute-plus drives—test both rush hours. A car is essential; transit is thin and traffic is the daily tax. Budget for a 1.40% property-tax rate and insurance averaging $4,644 a year on a $300,000 house. Summers are brutally hot and humid, pests are constant, and flooding is neighborhood-specific (Tropical Storms Arthur and Bertha in 2026). The payoff is food (The Pit Room, El Tiempo), Buffalo Bayou and Memorial Parks, the Museum District, the Rodeo, and free events at Discovery Green. Safety is hyper-local: pick the neighborhood, not just the city.
