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Shift: Rotating, 3x12hrs
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Hours: 36 hrs/wk
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Start Date: Sep 22, 2026
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Length: 25 weeks
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Openings: 1
American Traveler is hiring an experienced ICU RN with a CA license and advanced ECMO/mechanical circulatory support experience for a high-acuity float pool position at an academic medical center.
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Float pool ICU RN position covering TCUs, ICUs, ED, and PACU rather than a single unit assignment
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Patient population includes complex critical care and cardiovascular ICU patients requiring ECMO, IABP, Impella, LVAD, CRRT, and PA catheter management
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Patient ratio of 1:2
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12-hour Day/Night rotating shifts (7:00-19:30 or 19:00-7:30), with schedule cycles of 4 weeks that may switch between day and night shift
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Floating required to other ICUs, TCUs, ED, and PACU, and potentially to other facilities within a 75+ mile radius
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Epic charting system experience preferred
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Active CA RN license required
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BSN required
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AHA BLS and ACLS certifications required; NIHSS preferred
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Minimum 4 years of recent ICU experience required
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CVICU/CTICU/CCU experience required
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ECMO experience within the last 6 months to 1 year required, including bedside RN management of ECMO patients without dedicated perfusion support
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Trauma Level II experience required
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Teaching hospital experience preferred
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Travel nursing experience required, having completed a travel assignment within the past 12 months and totaling 1 year or less of travel experience in the past 5 years
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Ability to independently manage complex critical care patients
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Strong interpersonal communication skills required
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Skilled in arterial line management, central line care, PICC line management, and blood product administration
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Experience with ventilator management, ABG interpretation, and high flow nasal cannula preferred
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Two references from most recent employer required for consideration
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Function within an Interdisciplinary Cardiovascular Care (ICC) model, managing complex mechanical circulatory support and multi-organ support therapies
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Preferred experience includes VA/VV/V-PA ECMO, CRRT (NxStage), IABP (Teleflex), Impella, ventricular assist devices, and pulmonary artery catheters
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Preferred experience with heart failure/cardiogenic shock, cardiothoracic surgery recovery, and heart/lung transplant recovery
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Highly desirable to have academic medical center experience and simultaneous management of multiple support devices (e.g. ECMO + CRRT, ECMO + Impella, ECMO + IABP)
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Any prior employment with University of California medical facilities or their acquired facilities must be disclosed with employment dates, units worked, and manager names for rehire eligibility review
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All RTO must be disclosed and approved by the manager at time of offer; RTO requests will not be accepted mid-contract and cannot fall within the first two weeks of the assignment
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Local candidates accepted at the same rate as travelers
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Travel pairs are allowed but generally will not be placed on the same unit, and married couples may not work on the same unit
