Travel Nurse RN - ICU - Intensive Care Unit - $2,059 per week

TalentBurst, Inc is seeking a travel nurse RN ICU - Intensive Care Unit for a travel nursing job in Macon, Georgia.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: ICU - Intensive Care Unit
• Discipline: RN
• Start Date: 11/30/2026
• Duration: 13 weeks
• 36 hours per week
• Shift: 12 hours, days
• Employment Type: Travel

Title: ICU RN

Location: Macon Georgia 31201

Duration: 13 Weeks

Shift: 12hr Day Shift - 36

Shift Information: 7A-7P

Clinical Interviewing- Yes - Manager Approval to Offer

On Call, Call Back Requirements: None

Weekend Rotation: 6 shifts on a 6 week schedule (6 out of 12 shifts)

Holiday Requirements: Travelers will work 75% of holidays

Floating Requirements: will float to all ICU and also PCU

About Facility:

• 637 licensed beds
• Level 1 Trauma Designation
• Teaching Hospital
• Chest Pain Center
• Stroke Center

Unit Information:

• Beds: 14
• Census: 14

Minimum Years of Experience required: 2 years ICU RN experience
Will you accept a first-time traveler: Yes

Patient Types/Common Diagnoses:

• Medical ICU patients
• Common diagnoses: respiratory failure, renal failure, sepsis, GI Bleed, DKA, hypotension, hypertension, stroke, pneumonia, cancer, ARDS, overdoses
• Chronic ventilators and chronic trachs
• Hemodynamically unstable patients requiring invasive monitoring and/or close observation

Patient Ratios:

• RN: 1:1-2 (rarely but possible 3)
• CNA: 1-2 per shift

Required License, National Certification, Certs (BLS, ACLS, etc.), or other position specific requirements such as Driver's License and/or Insurance:

• NIHSS, BLS, and ACLS certification required
• CCRN (critical care nursing certification) preferred but not required

Skills required:

• trach chare, chest tube management, PIV starts, glucommander, insulin drips, heparin drips, drips to titrate to HR and BP
• Management of vasoactive medications
• Monitoring and management of invasive lines i.e. arterial lines, central venous lines, pulse oximetry, intracranial pressure monitoring
• Assist/management of a variety of bedside procedures i.e. chest tube placement/management, tracheostomy, peg tube placement
• TABLO
• Management of patients on ventilator support

Support within the Department:

• CNA: Duties: Yes - assist with VS, Glucose Checks, baths, feeding, ambulating patients, assisting turning patients, hourly rounding, transporting patients as needed (Hospital has designated Transport Team); obtain blood from blood bank
• Receptionist/HUC: Unit secretary on unit 7a-11p; then house wide call secretary 11p-7a
• Charge nurse – may have patients
• Phlebotomy: Most units are lab collect phlebotomy; nurses drawn from CVLs
• IV/VAT Team: Not an IV team - do have a PICC team
• Resource Nurse: Yes, we have discharge nurses, resource team floats to all units
• RT 24/7: yes
• Hospitalist 24/7: yes
• Intensivist 24/7: yes
• Telemetry monitoring/tech: Central Telemetry Unit

Technology/Equipment:

• EMR: EPIC
• IV Pump: Alaris
• Med dispensing: Pyxis
• Monitors: Phillips

Unit specific equipment:

• VS3 vital sign monitors, Nova Glucose Stat Strips
• Belmont Rapid Infuser
• TABLO
• PCA pain management
• SCD s (sequential compression devices)
• Cooling and heating blankets-devices

Floating:

• All adult ICU units in house including PCU

Orientation (facility and unit):

• 1 day orientation with work on educational modules
• 2 days departmental

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