Job description
Registered Nurse - ICU
Start Date: 11-02-2026
End Date: 02-01-2027
Contract Type: Travel Contract
Hours per Week: 36
Candidate Pay Rate: $67.90 per hour
About United Health Care Staffing
At United Health Care Staffing (UHC Staffing), we believe healthcare staffing should be more than just finding a job. We are here to connect amazing professionals with opportunities that make their careers exciting, rewarding, and meaningful. With us, you're not just signing up for a contract you are joining a team that's got your back, answers your calls, and maybe even cracks a joke or two to brighten your day. Think of us as the travel buddy who handles the logistics while you focus on what you do best helping people heal.
Education
- Charting System: Cerner
- Unit Notes: - Unit: ICU/CCU
- # beds: 12 beds CCU or 12 bed ICU
- Certs: ACLS, BLS, NIHSS, EKG dysrhythmia course (advanced)
- Ratios: 1 to 1 or 1 to 2
- EMR: Meditech
- Charge Nurse: Yes - no patient assign
- Nurse Aides: No
- Weekend Requirement: every other
- Holidays: Work them in with perm staff rotation
- Scrub Color: Navy
- Tele/Monitor Techs: GE - they do have a monitor tech if census is high enough,RN's read and interpret strips
- Drips: cardiozem, diprovan, amio, dopamine, dobutamine, fentanyl, versed
- Vents: Yes
- Hospitalist or Intensivist in house: No - All independent physicians
- IV Team: No
- RT 24/7: yes
- Pharmacy 24/7: yes
- Shifts: 12 hr shifts -7-7
- Floating: All staff will float between ICU and CCU and possibly tele (1 to 4), if they are willing to float to the ER they will allow that and they will train if desired
- Floor specific orientation: 2-3 shifts on unit, can give them one shift of orientation on tele if needed, if they want to float to ER they will give them 3 shifts of orientation in the ER
- Common diagnosis / Types of patients: ICU - sepsis, CHF, COPD, vented, no CRRT CCU- balloon pumps, post cath, open heart, lobectomies, thrombectomies that have gone bad, spinals (1 to 1 for first 6 hours) - travelers cannot take any open heart or balloon pumps
- Years of Experience: 2
- Shift Notes: 12 hr Days, EOW, First to Float
- Specialty: ICU
- Start Date: 2026-11-02
- End Date: 2027-02-01
- Created Date: 2026-10-08
- Required Hours/Week: 36
- Positions: 2
- Short Description: RN (Registered Nurse)
- Contract Type:
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Ready to start your next adventure as a Registered Nurse - ICU? Let's get you moving forward!
Send your resume to [email protected] or call us at 408-441-9200 today.
Why UHCS
Weekly or bi-weekly pay, medical/dental/vision, a SIMPLE IRA with employer contribution, tests paid on qualifying assignments with payroll deduction available, and one recruiter who stays with you for the whole assignment — reachable after hours. Every placement is credentialed to Joint Commission standards, so your packet is accepted the first time.