Care Career is seeking a travel nurse RN ICU - Intensive Care Unit for a travel nursing job in Bakersfield, California.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: ICU - Intensive Care Unit
- Discipline: RN
- Start Date: 10/18/2026
- Duration: 13 weeks
- 36 hours per week
- Shift: 12 hours, days
- Employment Type: Travel
JD Summary
Position: Registered Nurse (RN)
Shift: Days – 12 hours
Guaranteed Hours: 36 hrs/week
Contract: 13 weeks
Job Responsibilities
- Provide coordinated nursing care to assigned patients.
- Follow established standards of care and the nursing process.
- Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care.
- Supervise and direct assigned nursing staff.
- Coordinate care with other healthcare disciplines.
- Use critical thinking and independent clinical judgment.
- Exercise professional and supervisory discretion.
Key Responsibilities - Provide nursing care to critically ill medical, surgical, and trauma patients.
- Closely monitor heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory status, and other vital signs.
- Recognize signs of patient deterioration and respond appropriately.
- Provide continuous assessment and monitoring of critically ill patients.
- Educate patients and their families regarding care and treatment.
- Provide emotional support to patients and families.
- Coordinate care with physicians and other interdisciplinary team members.
- Use critical thinking and independent clinical judgment.
- Supervise and direct assigned nursing staff as required.
Required Certifications - BLS
RN State License
About Care Career
Care Career brings together a portfolio of leading healthcare staffing organizations, each delivering specialized talent solutions across the industry. Wherever you want to go, We Make It Happen.
With travel nursing jobs across the country, you can discover the possibilities that create the lifestyle and financial position that you have dreamed of.
Care Career is a modern, transparent staffing firm creating the ultimate community of US.
Benefits
- Referral bonus
- Weekly pay
- Medical benefits
- Continuing Education
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits