Job description
RN - ICU
Start Date: 10-05-2026
End Date: 01-04-2027
Contract Type: Travel Contract
Hours per Week: 36
Candidate Pay Rate: $65 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
- Common diagnoses/Types of patients COVID, Respiratory failure, cardiac arrest, sepsis, DKA
- Experience or 'Must have' skills ventilated patients, cath lab recovery, therapeutic hypothermia
- Are RNs required to titrate drips? Yes
- Common titratable &/or set rate drips Sedation (i.e.propofol, versed, fentanyl, precedex)
- pressors (i.e. levophed, epinephrine, vasopressin, dopamine, dobutamine)
- diuretics such as Bumex
- insulin
- Amiodarone
- Charge Nurse/House Supervisor? Does the charge nurse take an assignment? Charge nurse 24 hours
- house supervisor 1500-0700
- Are there nurse aids on this unit/Ratios on PCU, 8:1
- on ICU rarely
- Hospitalist or Intensivist in house Intensivist 0800-1500
- Hospitalist 24 hours
- RT in ICU 24/7 Yes
- RT Equipment (vents, Cpap, Bi Pap, etc) Vents, CPAP/Bi PAP, high flow
- Are there Tele/Monitor Techs on this unit? Are RNs required to read their own strips? What brand are the tele monitors? Yes. remote monitor techs. RN’s read strips
- Shifts & Scheduling (Do you allow self-scheduling? Block scheduling?) 12 hour shifts, centralized scheduling
- Weekend Requirements Every other weekend
- Holiday Requirements Rotate with permanent staff
- Is there a call or standby requirement? No
- Floating Requirements Primarily ICU with float to PCU and medsurg units when needed
- Scrub Color/Dress Code no set scrub color, may wear any colored professional scrubs.
- Unit/Department specific orientation 1-12 hour shift orientation
- Notes obtained: Phone Implementation, Email, or On-Site? Christy Winterburn via Email 9/2/2021
- Notes updated by & date: Notes UPDATED 12/19/2022
- Specialty: ICU
Apply Now
Ready to start your next adventure as a RN - 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.