Genie Healthcare is seeking a travel nurse RN ICU - Intensive Care Unit for a travel nursing job in Freeport, Illinois.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: ICU - Intensive Care Unit
- Discipline: RN
- Duration: 13 weeks
- 36 hours per week
- Shift: 12 hours, nights
- Employment Type: Travel
Unit: ICU (8 beds)
Contract Length: 13 weeks
Shift: 12-hr Nights (7p–7:30a)
Schedule: 36 hrs/wk, every other weekend + holiday rotation
Guaranteed Hours: 36/wk
Requirements
- Certifications: BLS, ACLS, NIHSS (Code Blue + phlebotomy experience a plus)
- Licensure: Active IL RN license required at submission
- Experience:
- 2+ years ICU (travel experience highly preferred)
- Must be comfortable running codes (ICU RNs run all codes in the facility)
- Meditech EMR experience a plus
Unit / Department Details
- Beds: 8 ICU
- Ratios: 1:2–3 (acuity-based; some lower acuity)
- Common Diagnoses: Sepsis, stroke (TNK), DKA, pneumonia, ETOH withdrawal, post-cath recovery (radial/femoral), abdominal surgical cases
- Drips: Levo, Neo, Propofol, Fentanyl, Precedex, Insulin, TNK, etc. (some mixing required)
- Charge RN: Takes assignment; Nursing Supervisor is patient-free
- Support: CNA/unit secretary as acuity allows
- Monitoring: GE Carescape + Airstrip; RNs responsible for their own strips (no monitor tech)
- Coverage: eICU at night for 6/8 beds (aligns with UW Health center)
- Hospitalist: 24/7 (in-house during day)
- RT: Available; manages RT equipment
Additional Info
- Floating: Yes – to MedSurg, Tele, or ER (full patient load)
- Orientation: 2 x 12-hr shifts; documentation resource available
- Scrubs: Any professional color
- Holiday Requirement: Standard rotation
Job ID #17012365
About Genie Healthcare
Genie Healthcare is one of the fastest growing Nurse Travel Agencies in the USA. Genie serves hundreds of facilities and has over 4000 current travel RN contracts open at any given time.
Genie provides travel RN’s flexibility, support, top pay scale, housing and the #1 rated, multi-state health insurance coverage.
Genie Healthcare carries with it a commitment to providing a comprehensive level of service and quality care. Growing from a small team of eager recruiters to a company with satisfied clients in nearly every corner of the nation, delivering excellence in patient and customer care is the key to Genie’s success.
The management team has 20 years of experience in workforce solutions and staffing in medical and non-medical fields, roles ranging from Clerical job to Cardiologist to software developer to CEO.