Travel Nurse RN - Intensive Care Unit (ICU) / Critical Care in Yuma, AZ

Why Join Us Work alongside a fully staffed critical care team including 24/7 intensivist coverage, dedicated respiratory therapy, and unit support personnel to help manage workload. Demonstrated experience with mechanical ventilation, sedation management, vasopressors, sepsis protocols, DKA, cardiac care, CHF, and respiratory management.

Job Title

Registered Nurse – ICU

Location

Yuma, AZ

Schedule / Job Type

Contract | Days | Onsite

Key Responsibilities

• Provide direct patient care in a 42-bed ICU setting with nurse-to-patient ratios of 1:1 or 1:2, and up to 1:3 when no vents or drips are present
• Manage and titrate a broad range of critical care drips including vasopressors, inotropes, antiarrhythmics, antihypertensives, sedatives, paralytics, analgesics, and anticoagulants
• Care for complex patient populations including cardiac, respiratory, sepsis, DKA, CHF, and Level 3 trauma cases
• Collaborate with an intensivist-led team available 24/7, respiratory therapy, PCAs, and unit support staff to deliver comprehensive critical care
• Assist with bedside procedures including tracheostomies in coordination with RT and the medical team
• Float to other units as needed, maintaining a reduced patient load of up to 4 patients when floating

Required Qualifications

• Active RN licensure
• Current BLS, ACLS, and NIHSS certifications
• Proficiency with Epic EMR (recent experience required)
• Recent experience in a Trauma Level I or II hospital setting
• Demonstrated experience with mechanical ventilation, sedation management, vasopressors, sepsis protocols, DKA, cardiac care, CHF, and respiratory management
• Must reside or be willing to comply with a 100-mile radius requirement

Preferred Experience / Skills

• Experience with cardiac-specific interventions such as balloon pumps, Impella, and tPA administration
• Familiarity with therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) and advanced hemodynamic monitoring
• Well-rounded experience with a wide variety of titratable critical care drips across multiple drug classes

Why Join Us

• Work alongside a fully staffed critical care team including 24/7 intensivist coverage, dedicated respiratory therapy, and unit support personnel to help manage workload
• Self-scheduling with flexibility to submit time-off requests within unit guidelines