Job description
Registered Nurse - ICU
Start Date: 11-16-2026
End Date: 02-15-2027
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- Intensive Care Unit
- # beds: 32 all private rooms
- Certs: BLS, ACLS, NIHSS, 2 yrs of ICU, 1 yr travel-required. Prefer- EKG basic dysrhymia course, pharmacology, TNCC.
- Ratios: 1:2 unless high acuity then 1:1
- EMR: Cerner
- Charge Nurse: Shift manager- doesn't take patient load
- Nurse Aides: None
- Weekend Requirement: Every other weekend
- Holidays: 2/3 holidays
- Scrub Color: Navy
- Tele/Monitor Techs: Nihon Kohden monitors at bedside- must read and interpret own strips
- Drips: Cardizem, dobutamine, dopamine, TPA, all critical gtts
- Vents: Yes
- Hospitalist or Intensivist in house: yes - 24/7
- IV Team: No
- RT 24/7: Yes
- Pharmacy 24/7: Yes
- Shifts: 12 hr shifts- 7a, 7p
- -Scheduling-Travelers work with their respective shift manager for scheduling. Self scheduling is acceptable on a new schedule but when added to a current schedule, they’re plugged in where needed.
- Floating: Yes- to Tele or (ER for holds-but rare)
- Floor specific orientation: If Cerner experience- then 2 days of floor orientation
- Common diagnosis / Types of patients: Trauma, GSW, Severe head trauma, stab wounds, CABG, IABP, CHF, GI Bleed, DKA, large homeless population, Stroke-TPA, Long bone fractures, GI surgeries, Major transfusions, Titrate gtts.
- Additional Notes: Sheath pulling experience preferred, bedside report is an expectation. Looking for self confident nurses. FYI- staff are a little tougher, lots of Filipino staff members. Be familiar with prophyactic bundle for stroke and cardiac patients, ABCDE bundle(bundle to improve vent. Weaning, delirium, and mobility in the ICU), and VAP (ventilator-associated pneumonia) bundle.
- Years of Experience: 2
- Shift Notes: 12 hr Nights, EOW, First to Float
- Specialty: ICU
- Start Date: 2026-11-16
- End Date: 2027-02-15
- Created Date: 2026-10-19
- Required Hours/Week: 36
- Positions: 5
- 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.