Registered Nurse Critical Care Float Agency
Catholic Health System
Buffalo, NY
Health system employer
RN
Posted Jul 15
- Shift
- Days
- Unit
- ICU
What the listing says
Role
- Schedule
- Days
- Weekends
- Weekends required
- Term
- Agency
- On the floor
- Floating required
- Practice
- Epic charting · Union position
- Setting
- Hospital
More role details
- Accepts
- RN
- Experience
- 1+ years
Ratio not posted. Ask in the interview.
Pay
- Against the board
The median for nursing in New York is $40/hr, across 878 postings. It covers every nursing role in the state, so it is a bearing, not a like-for-like comparison.
About this role
- Facility: Administrative Regional Training Cntr
- Shift: Shift 1
- Status: Temporary FTE: 0.100000
- Bargaining Unit: ACE Associates
- Exempt from Overtime: Exempt: No
Work
Schedule
Varied with Weekend and Holiday Rotation
Hours
Summary
Coordinates total patient care through assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluation for critical care and Emergency areas. Participates in patient and family teaching. Works cooperatively with health care team members in maintaining standards for professional practice in the clinical setting. Participates in quality improvement initiatives.
Responsibilities
Education
- Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing
- BSN strongly preferred
- Maintains a current New York State Professional RN License
- BLS and ACLS required
Experience
One year experience in a critical care/emergency department area. Ventilator experience preferred CRRT preferred Experience with EPIC computerized health record preferred
Working conditions
Subject to inside environmental conditions.
Sourced from a public job board.
Requirements
- RN
- Care plan evaluation
- Nursing
- Float pool
- Weekends as needed
- RN License
- BLS Certification
- In-hospital emergency response experience
- Mid-level
Place
- City
- Buffalo, NY
- Median rent
- $1,046/mo
- Local household income
- $50,041/yr
- Metro price level
- 4% below the national average
rent and tenant-paid utilities · Census ACS 2024
all local households, not nurse pay · Census ACS 2024
Buffalo area index 95.8, where 100 is the national average.
Buffalo sits on the Lake Erie shore, steps from Niagara Falls. This tight-knit Rust Belt city blends historic neighborhoods like Allentown with revitalized waterfront districts, offering nurses affordable living, harsh but scenic winters, and loyal sports-fan culture without big-city pressure.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 metro Regional Price Parities.
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ICU / Critical Care is a specialty you move into. The classic route: base year, then transfer in.
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