Travel RN - Neonatal ICU
Sugar Land, Texas
Staffing partner
Posted Aug 10 · Not open to new grads
- Shift
- 12-hour days
- Hours a week
- 36
- Unit
- NICU
- Contract
- 15 weeks
What the listing says
Role
- Schedule
- 12-hour days · 3 a week · 36 hours
- Weekends
- Every other weekend
- Term
- 15 weeks · starts Aug 31, 2026 · Travel
- Practice
- Epic charting
- Setting
- Hospital
- Accepts
- RN
More role details
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Staffing partner
- American Traveler
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Pay
About this role
Assignment Overview Shift: Days, 3x12hrs Hours: 36 hrs/wk Start Date: Aug 31, 2026 Length: 15 weeks Openings: 2 American Traveler is hiring an experienced RN for a NICU position requiring a TX or compact RN license and NRP certification.
- Details
- Work in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of an acute care hospital
- 12-hour day shifts scheduled 7a-7p with every other weekend (EOW)
- 36 guaranteed hours per week
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- Uses EPIC EMR
- 15-week assignment length
- 12 hours of orientation provided
- Requirements
- Active TX or Compact (NLC) RN license currently in hand
- Current
certifications
BLS (AHA) and NRP (Neonatal Resuscitation Program) Minimum 2 years of RN experience required COVID vaccine required Copy of driver's license required for consideration Two professional references required: one supervisor from within the last 12 months worked, and one peer or supervisor from within the last 3 years worked, including dates of employment and rehire eligibility Additional Information Provide direct nursing care to neonatal patients requiring intensive care Candidates may not have been directly employed (full time, part time, or PRN) by any CommonSpirit-affiliated facility, including CHI and/or Dignity, within the past year Candidates previously employed PRN through outside staffing firms will be considered Hospital may cancel shifts up to 4 times per 13-week contract (3 times if 12 weeks or less)
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“r Compact (NLC) RN license currently in hand Current certifications: BLS (AHA) and NRP (Neonatal Resuscitation Program) Minimum 2 years of RN experience required COVID vaccine required Copy of driver's license required…” · from this posting
Requirements
- Active TX or Compact (NLC) RN license currently in hand
- BLS (AHA) and NRP (Neonatal Resuscitation Program)
- Minimum 2 years of RN experience required
- COVID vaccine required
- Copy of driver's license required for consideration
- Two professional references required: one supervisor from within the last 12 months worked, and one peer or supervisor from within the last 3 years worked, including dates of employment and rehire eligibility
- Additional Information
- Candidates may not have been directly employed (full time, part time, or PRN) by any CommonSpirit-affiliated facility, including CHI and/or Dignity, within the past year
- Candidates previously employed PRN through outside staffing firms will be considered
- Hospital may cancel shifts up to 4 times per 13-week contract (3 times if 12 weeks or less)
Place
- City
- Sugar Land, Texas
- Median rent
- $1,957/mo
- Local household income
- $136,217/yr
- State price level
- 3% below the national average
rent and tenant-paid utilities · Census ACS 2024
all local households, not nurse pay · Census ACS 2024
Texas index 97.1, where 100 is the national average.
Sugar Land is a master-planned suburb southwest of Houston, named for the Imperial Sugar refinery that once anchored the town. Today it blends family-friendly neighborhoods with a growing dining and retail scene along Highway 59, giving nurses a calm residential base within easy reach of the Texas Medical Center.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 Regional Price Parities · Census ACS 2024.
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NICU / Neonatal is open from year one. Residencies hire in directly, and the unit's level sets the work.
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