Travel Nurse RN - Intensive Care Unit (ICU) / Critical Care in Reno, NV

Key Responsibilities Provide comprehensive, individualized nursing care to adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients — including those with traumatic injuries such as spinal cord injuries, TBI, extremity fractures, and solid organ injuries — as well as post-surgical patients including craniotomies, craniectomies, and bowel surgeries. Why Join Us Work in a 27-bed, Beacon-designated ICU that is part of a large regional medical center — the only Level II Trauma Center serving a vast geographic region — offering exposure to a high volume and wide variety of complex, critical cases.

Job Title

Registered Nurse (RN) – Trauma ICU

Location

Reno, Nevada

Schedule / Job Type

Contract (13 Weeks) | Full-Time | 3x12-Hour Shifts | Nights | Onsite | 36 Guaranteed Hours Per Week

Key Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive, individualized nursing care to adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients — including those with traumatic injuries such as spinal cord injuries, TBI, extremity fractures, and solid organ injuries — as well as post-surgical patients including craniotomies, craniectomies, and bowel surgeries.
• Utilize the nursing process — assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation — to deliver optimal patient outcomes across an entire episode of care.
• Demonstrate cognitive and psychosocial competency specific to the patient population served, meeting unit and department age-specific competency standards.
• Coordinate care collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, incorporating patients' families and caregivers into care planning when appropriate.
• Exercise intensive clinical judgment and decision-making in a high-acuity, fast-paced Trauma ICU environment.
• Float to other areas of the organization up to competency level as needed, and fulfill scheduling requirements including weekends, holidays, and one additional shift per four-week schedule period.

Required Qualifications

• Active Nevada Registered Nurse (RN) license required prior to start date.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification through the American Heart Association (AHA).
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certification through the American Heart Association (AHA).
• NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certification through APEX.
• Minimum of 2 years of Trauma ICU experience required to be considered.

Preferred Experience / Skills

• CCRN certification strongly preferred.
• Experience working in a high-volume, Level II or higher trauma center environment.
• Familiarity caring for complex surgical and neurological patient populations.

Why Join Us

• Work in a 27-bed, Beacon-designated ICU that is part of a large regional medical center — the only Level II Trauma Center serving a vast geographic region — offering exposure to a high volume and wide variety of complex, critical cases.
• Join a collaborative, multidisciplinary team committed to clinical excellence and patient-centered care in a state-of-the-art facility recognized for advanced neuroscience, cardiac, surgical, and trauma services.