Registered Nurse - Critical Care Float Pool (Day/Night Rotator)

Seattle Children's Hospital

Seattle, Washington

Eligibility: PICUCICUNICUSign-on bonus

Posted Aug 4

Shift and hours: Rotating36 hours a week
Unit and setting: PICU, CICU, NICU · Hospital
License: RN license \- Current Washington State RN License, or other current state license that the RN is required to work in.
Term: Permanent

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License: \- Current Washington State RN License, or other current state license that the RN is required to work in. Check your license
Certification: \- Nurses working in the following areas are required to successfully obtain PALS within 3 months of employment, and subsequently maintain at all times: Critical Care FloatAfter hire · within 3 months
Education: For personnel trained outside of the U. S., records of diploma/transcript must provide documented equivalency evaluation by a foreign credentialing agency.
Education: \- As per the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), for nurses performing moderately complex point of care testing, a copy of a diploma or transcript of the highest level of academic achievement to be on record with Human Resources upon hire.
Experience: PICU, CICU and NICU experience
Experience: Previous experience in a pediatric critical care float pool position
Experience: Offers are determined by multiple factors including equity, skills, experience, and expertise, and may vary within the range provided.
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Also asks: **Compensation Range**
Also asks: $51.60 - $91.30 per hour
Also asks: **Salary Information**
Also asks: This compensation range was calculated based on full-time employment (2080 hours worked per calendar year).
Also asks: **Disclaimer for Out of State Applicants**
Also asks: This compensation range is specific to Seattle, positions located outside of Seattle may be compensated differently depending on various factors **.**
Also asks: **Benefits Information**
Also asks: Seattle Children’s offers a generous benefit package, including medical, dental, and vision plans, 403(b), life insurance, paid time off, tuition reimbursement, and more. Additional details on our benefits can be found on our website [www.seattlechildrens.org/careers/benefits](https://www.seattlechildrens.org/careers/benefits).

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What it pays

Against similar roles: Washington ICU median is $64/hrWashington ICU postings that state pay run $50/hr to $78/hr, the middle half $57/hr to $70/hr, across 43 postings. This posting's $52/hr to $91/hr is wider than that, so where you land depends on the offer.
Sign-on bonus: $15,000

Benefits

Medical plans
Dental plans
Vision plans
403(b)
Life insurance
Paid time off

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Tuition reimbursement
Sign on bonus up to $15k

The role and schedule

Floating: Floats to other units

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Seattle Children's Hospital

Hospital: Seattle Children'S Hospital
Address: 4800 SAND POINT WAY NE, PO BOX C-5371, SEATTLE, WA, 98105
Beds: 370
Magnet: Designated since 2008
RN residency: Seattle Children's RN Residency Program at Seattle Children's, accredited through Jan 2030

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Registered Nurse - Critical Care Float Pool (Day/Night Rotator)

Location: Seattle, Washington
Category: Nursing
SEA Critical Care Float widget: Part time

36 Hours/Week

Job Type: Regular

Day/Night Shift

12 Hour Shift

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Registered Nurse - Critical Care Float Pool - 0.9 FTE (Day/ Night Rotator)

Up to $15k sign on bonus for qualified external candidates with pediatric critical care experience!

Schedule is rotating 6 weeks days, 6 weeks nights.

Float pool position working in PICU/ CICU/ NICU.

As an integral member of the Health Care Team, the RN functions within the Scope of Practice as defined by the State, the ANA Scope and Standards for Pediatric Nursing Practice, and adheres to Seattle Children's policies/procedures and guidelines of care. Responsible for providing safe, family centered patient care. Using the Nursing Care Process, the RN is responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating patient care in a collaborative method with the patient and patient's family, significant others, and members of the health care team.

May be required to provide supervision and delegation of tasks to Nurse Technicians, Licensed Practical Nurses, Certified Medical Assistants, Certified Nursing Assistants, and others as defined by the State Administrative Code. Assists in meeting Seattle Children's strategic goals by incorporating the initiatives to support the strategic plans into the daily work, i.e., Continuous Performance Improvement (CPI), Value Based Behaviors, Error Prevention, Patient Safety, Workforce Inclusion Diversity Equity and Access (IDEA) etc. #LI-MO1

Required Education/

Experience

\- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.

\- Prior experience in a pediatric related health care setting, or a specific area of nursing, may be required for specific departments.

\- Per the driver's license requirement noted below, must have a driving record acceptable to Risk Management.

Required Credentials

\- Current Washington State RN License, or other current state license that the RN is required to work in.

\- Current Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers is required for all positions at time of hire unless the incumbent possesses a current appropriate Life Support Education required for their practice area (refer to requirements per practice area below.) BLS must be maintained in current status until the incumbent obtains the appropriate Life Support Life Support Education required for their practice area (refer to requirements per practice area below) NOTE: Pediatric Emergency Assessment, Recognition and Stabilization (PEARS), and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) will be accepted in lieu of BLS for Healthcare Providers. ACLS will not be accepted as a substitute to the requirements listed above. Employees are responsible for any costs (including time away from work) associated with obtaining PALS or PEARS certification if it is not a requirement of the position.

\- Nurses working in the following areas are required to successfully obtain PALS within 3 months of employment, and subsequently maintain at all times: Critical Care Float

\- As per the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), for nurses performing moderately complex point of care testing, a copy of a diploma or transcript of the highest level of academic achievement to be on record with Human Resources upon hire. For personnel trained outside of the U. S., records of diploma/transcript must provide documented equivalency evaluation by a foreign credentialing agency. Critical Care Float

Preferred Qualifications

PICU, CICU and NICU experience

Previous experience in a pediatric critical care float pool position

Compensation Range

$51.60 - $91.30 per hour

Salary Information

This compensation range was calculated based on full-time employment (2080 hours worked per calendar year). Offers are determined by multiple factors including equity, skills, experience, and expertise, and may vary within the range provided.

Disclaimer for Out of State Applicants

This compensation range is specific to Seattle, positions located outside of Seattle may be compensated differently depending on various factors .

Benefits Information

Seattle Children’s offers a generous benefit package, including medical, dental, and vision plans, 403(b), life insurance, paid time off, tuition reimbursement, and more. Additional details on our benefits can be found on our website www.seattlechildrens.org/careers/benefits.

About Us

Hope. Care. Cure. These three simple words capture what we do at Seattle Children’s – to help every child live the healthiest and most fulfilling life possible. Are you ready to engage with a mission-driven organization that is life-changing to many, and touches the hearts of all? #HOPECARECURE

Our founding promise to the community is as valid today as it was over a century ago: we will care for all children in our region, regardless of the families’ ability to pay. Together, we deliver superior patient care, advance new discoveries and treatments through pediatric research, and serve as the pediatric and adolescent, academic medical center for Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho – the largest region of any children’s hospital in the country.

U. S. News & World Report consistently ranks Seattle Children’s among the nation’s best children’s hospitals. For more than a decade, Seattle Children’s has been nationally recognized in key specialty areas. We are honored to be one of the nation’s very best places to care for children and the top-ranked pediatric hospital in Washington and the Pacific Northwest.

As a Magnet designated institution, we recognize the importance of hiring and developing great talent to provide best-in-class care to the patients and families we serve. Our organizational DNA takes form in our core values: Compassion, Excellence, Integrity, Collaboration, Equity and Innovation. Whether it’s delivering frontline care to our patients in a kind and caring manner, practicing the highest standards of quality and safety, or being relentlessly curious as we work towards eradicating childhood diseases, these values are the fabric of our culture and community. The future starts here.

Our Commitment

Seattle Children’s welcomes people of all experiences, backgrounds, and thoughts as this is what drives our spirit of inquiry and allows us to better connect with our patients and families. Our organization recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes based on merit without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

The people who work at Seattle Children’s are members of a community that seeks to respect and celebrate all the qualities that make each of us unique. Each of us is empowered to be ourselves.

Seattle Children’s is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Workplace and Affirmative Action Employer.

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Seattle Children'S Hospital · Seattle, WA

Seattle, WAFrom Census ACS 2024.

Living costs about 11% above the US average

Median rent: $2,030/mo
Household income: $123,860/yr, all local households, not nurse pay

Life in Seattle, WA

NeighborhoodsWest Seattle is the named small-town-in-the-city pick: three commercial junctions along California Avenue Southwest, Alki Beach, a Sunday farmers market, bars, and a movie theater, plus 10–30 minute downtown drives. Shoreline, its own city just north of the line and now on light rail, buys three-bed/two-bath houses with yards and garages and a 20–25 minute rail ride downtown—more space than a Seattle condo at the same budget. Columbia City (craftsman homes, food, light rail), Ballard (restaurants, long-term Seattle character), Belltown and South Lake Union (condos, nightlife) are the in-city young-professional patterns; Wilburton and West Bellevue plus Grass Lawn in Redmond are the Eastside family/tech bases. Kent, Renton, and Lynnwood are the lower-cost suburbs Reddit names, with the blunt caveat that traffic will suck.

West Seattle is the named small-town-in-the-city pick: three commercial junctions along California Avenue Southwest, Alki Beach, a Sunday farmers market, bars, and a movie theater, plus 10–30 minute downtown drives. Shoreline, its own city just north of the line and now on light rail, buys three-bed/two-bath houses with yards and garages and a 20–25 minute rail ride downtown—more space than a Seattle condo at the same budget.

Columbia City (craftsman homes, food, light rail), Ballard (restaurants, long-term Seattle character), Belltown and South Lake Union (condos, nightlife) are the in-city young-professional patterns; Wilburton and West Bellevue plus Grass Lawn in Redmond are the Eastside family/tech bases. Kent, Renton, and Lynnwood are the lower-cost suburbs Reddit names, with the blunt caveat that traffic will suck.

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As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: reddit.com Source 2: sammamishmortgage.com Source 3: youtube.com Source 4: niche.com Source 5: hellolanding.com

Getting aroundSources map downtown and Eastside access, not hospital parking: Sounder from Kent Station is just under 30 minutes to King Street Station, then light rail deeper into the city, with I-5 and SR 167 HOT lanes for drivers. Issaquah is about 30 minutes via I-90 HOV, with downtown Issaquah train parking that includes EV chargers and bike lockers; SeaTac’s Angle Lake station plus RapidRide (every 10 minutes at peak, 15 off-peak) runs 35 minutes to an hour; Mercer Island express buses can reach Seattle in 20 minutes. West Seattle is 10 minutes off-peak and 30-plus in rush hour over the repaired West Seattle Bridge; Shoreline light rail is 20–25 minutes downtown. By 2025 the north line added Shoreline, Mountlake Terrace, and Lynnwood stops and Eastside rail served Bellevue–Redmond Technology Center, with I-90 and downtown Redmond extensions expected that year and Federal Way around 2026—yet rush hour can start near 1:30 p.m., a mapped hop can become an hour, and West Seattle to Redmond can take 1.5 hours (Capitol Hill about 45 minutes by car).

Sources map downtown and Eastside access, not hospital parking: Sounder from Kent Station is just under 30 minutes to King Street Station, then light rail deeper into the city, with I-5 and SR 167 HOT lanes for drivers. Issaquah is about 30 minutes via I-90 HOV, with downtown Issaquah train parking that includes EV chargers and bike lockers; SeaTac’s Angle Lake station plus RapidRide (every 10 minutes at peak, 15 off-peak) runs 35 minutes to an hour; Mercer Island express buses can reach Seattle in 20 minutes.

West Seattle is 10 minutes off-peak and 30-plus in rush hour over the repaired West Seattle Bridge; Shoreline light rail is 20–25 minutes downtown. By 2025 the north line added Shoreline, Mountlake Terrace, and Lynnwood stops and Eastside rail served Bellevue–Redmond Technology Center, with I-90 and downtown Redmond extensions expected that year and Federal Way around 2026—yet rush hour can start near 1:30 p.m., a mapped hop can become an hour, and West Seattle to Redmond can take 1.5 hours (Capitol Hill about 45 minutes by car).

Sources

As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: reddit.com Source 2: sammamishmortgage.com Source 3: youtube.com Source 4: facebook.com Source 5: youtube.com Source 6: facebook.com

OutdoorsIn-city hiking includes Discovery Park’s North Beach Trail beside a lighthouse, Carkeek Park’s Pipers Creek Trail to Puget Sound views, Seward Park’s Sqebeqsed Trail on Lake Washington, Union Bay Natural Area’s Yesler Swamp, and the 230-acre Washington Park Arboretum. The Burke-Gilman Trail is a nearly 20-mile car-free run from Golden Gardens through Ballard, Fremont, and the University District to Kenmore; Alki Beach and Golden Gardens are the swim-and-sunset parks. Kayak or SUP from Agua Verde Paddle Club and the Center for Wooden Boats on Lake Union, Green Lake Boathouse, Seattle Paddle near Seward Park, or Alki and Ballard kayak shops. Weekends go to the Issaquah Alps, Mount Si, Twin Falls, and Rattlesnake Ledge, or a two- to three-hour drive to Mount Rainier, Olympic, and North Cascades—plus Bainbridge, Kitsap, and Whidbey by ferry.

In-city hiking includes Discovery Park’s North Beach Trail beside a lighthouse, Carkeek Park’s Pipers Creek Trail to Puget Sound views, Seward Park’s Sqebeqsed Trail on Lake Washington, Union Bay Natural Area’s Yesler Swamp, and the 230-acre Washington Park Arboretum. The Burke-Gilman Trail is a nearly 20-mile car-free run from Golden Gardens through Ballard, Fremont, and the University District to Kenmore; Alki Beach and Golden Gardens are the swim-and-sunset parks.

Kayak or SUP from Agua Verde Paddle Club and the Center for Wooden Boats on Lake Union, Green Lake Boathouse, Seattle Paddle near Seward Park, or Alki and Ballard kayak shops. Weekends go to the Issaquah Alps, Mount Si, Twin Falls, and Rattlesnake Ledge, or a two- to three-hour drive to Mount Rainier, Olympic, and North Cascades—plus Bainbridge, Kitsap, and Whidbey by ferry.

Sources

As of Sep 11, 2026Source 1: visitseattle.org Source 2: thehonestlocal.com Source 3: hellolanding.com Source 4: youtube.com

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Living in Seattle

Seattle is distinct for stacking a no-wage-income-tax paycheck against Puget Sound, the Cascades, and three national parks two to three hours out. A nurse can live in West Seattle—California Avenue junctions, Sunday market, Alki Beach, 10–30 minutes downtown—or in Shoreline, where light rail is 20–25 minutes. Kent’s Sounder hits King Street in under 30 minutes; Bellevue, Issaquah, and Grass Lawn/Redmond fit Eastside job centers and schools (Bellevue’s 400+ National Board teachers). Light rail now serves Lynnwood and Bellevue–Redmond, but rush hour can start at 1:30 p.m. and West Seattle to Redmond can take 1.5 hours. Daily life runs on Pike Place salmon and Beecher’s, Capitol Hill’s Spinasse and Ethiopian/Vietnamese, Fremont’s Rock Creek, and the cream-cheese Seattle Dog. Tradeoffs are real: competitive housing, the Seattle Freeze, winter Big Dark, homelessness, and traffic. Parks sit within a 10-minute walk; Discovery Park and the Burke-Gilman Trail are the after-shift reset. Visit a prospective neighborhood at 8 a.m. on a weekday before you sign; traffic and the Freeze are the two things locals say surprise newcomers most.

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As of 2026Source 1: youtube.com Source 2: sammamishmortgage.com Source 3: thehonestlocal.com Source 4: hellolanding.com Source 5: youtube.com Source 6: visitseattle.org Source 7: getyourguide.com Source 8: reddit.com Source 9: niche.com Source 10: facebook.com

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