Genie Healthcare is seeking a travel nurse RN CVICU for a travel nursing job in Peoria, Illinois.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: CVICU
- Discipline: RN
- Start Date: 10/05/2026
- Duration: 13 weeks
- 36 hours per week
- Shift: 12 hours, nights
- Employment Type: Travel
Unit Overview
- 20-bed CVICU, all private rooms
- All rooms are monitored
- Typical RN-to-patient ratios: 1:1, 1:2, or 2:1, based on acuity
- Fast-paced, high-acuity cardiovascular critical care environment
- Charge RN and house supervisor available 24/7
- Respiratory Therapy available 24/7
- Monitor technicians available; RNs are expected to independently interpret cardiac rhythms
- CV and critical care APPs are available in the ICU the majority of the time, with providers on call as needed
Patient Population
The unit primarily cares for complex cardiovascular and post-operative patients, including:
- Post-open-heart surgery patients
- CABG and valve procedures
- CABG/valve combined procedures
- Aortic dissections and AAA
- Vascular and carotid procedures
- Post-cardiovascular procedures
- STEMI, unstable angina, and NSTEMI
- Cardiogenic shock and cardiomyopathy
- Severe heart failure
- TAVR patients
- Patients requiring targeted temperature management
- Transcutaneous and transvenous pacing
- Ventilated patients
- Cardiac-related events requiring ICU-level care
- ICU overflow patients, including COVID patients
- Upcoming VAD and post-heart-transplant patient population
Critical Care Equipment & Skills
Travelers must be comfortable managing advanced cardiovascular ICU equipment, including:
- IABP
- Impella
- Swan-Ganz catheters
- ECMO
- External pacemakers
- CRRT
- Ventilators
- CPAP/BPAP
- Heated high-flow oxygen
- Nitric oxide
- PICCs
- Midlines
- CVCs
- Arterial lines — radial and femoral
Drips & Medication Management
RNs are expected to independently manage and titrate multiple critical-care infusions, including:
- Dopamine
- Dobutamine
- Levophed
- Epinephrine
- Phenylephrine
- Vasopressin
- Cleviprex
- Propofol
- Fentanyl
- Versed
- Insulin
- Heparin
- Esmolol
About Genie Healthcare
Genie Healthcare is one of the fastest growing Nurse Travel Agencies in the USA. Genie serves hundreds of facilities and has over 4000 current travel RN contracts open at any given time.
Genie provides travel RN’s flexibility, support, top pay scale, housing and the #1 rated, multi-state health insurance coverage.
Genie Healthcare carries with it a commitment to providing a comprehensive level of service and quality care. Growing from a small team of eager recruiters to a company with satisfied clients in nearly every corner of the nation, delivering excellence in patient and customer care is the key to Genie’s success.
The management team has 20 years of experience in workforce solutions and staffing in medical and non-medical fields, roles ranging from Clerical job to Cardiologist to software developer to CEO.