Travel Nurse RN - ICU/Critical Care - $2,302 per week in Garden City, KS

Job Title: Registered Nurse Profession: RN Specialty: Intensive / Critical Care Unit Duration: 13 weeks Shift: 12-hour night shift Hours per Shift: 12 Experience: One year experience preferred License: State RN license or RN license from a participating state in the NLC - Required Certifications: American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) - Required Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) - Required NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) Certification - Required Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) - Required for positions in Kansas Must-Have: Nursing skills and knowledge base specific to specialty Description: Assess patients' physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs through observation, interviews, and review of medical records and clinical data. Evaluate patients' responses and intervene to ensure optimal patient outcomes. Develop and implement patient care plans and observe outcomes in accordance with nursing standards and in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team. Demonstrate competency in a variety of therapeutic and diagnostic interventions including but not limited to IVs, incision and wound care, medication administration, catheterization, and specimen collections. Promote, advocate, and collaborate to protect the health, safety, and rights of each patient. Provide patient and family education through assessment of learning readiness, needs, and abilities. Teach and evaluate the effectiveness of teaching. Recognize the patient or designee as a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for preferences, values, and needs. Deliver relationship-based care that strives to understand what is most important to the individual and actively engage them in all aspects of care. Ensure care is delivered with respect for cultural differences and the diversity of human experience. Delegate to non-RN personnel in accordance with state regulations and hospital policy. Effectively utilize time, personnel, equipment, and supplies to provide high-quality, cost-effective patient care. Serve as a professional role model for all staff, demonstrating ethical, legal, and professional nursing processes. Manage resources and patient flow by matching nursing competencies with individual patient and unit needs. Use standards of care, hospital policies and procedures, and regulatory guidelines to guide practice. Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care. Precept and mentor new staff or nursing students as needed. Seek out learning opportunities and continuing education. Maintain professional records that provide evidence of competency and lifelong learning. Evaluate personal integrity and nursing practice in relation to professional standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules, and regulations. Take action to achieve goals identified during the evaluation process. Demonstrate commitment to the organization through ongoing participation in hospital and unit-based meetings. Understand the value of measurement and the importance of continuous quality improvement data. Use quality measures to improve performance and accountability for patient outcomes, patient experiences, and safe delivery of care. Participate in unit-based quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and research activities. Utilize current healthcare research findings and other evidence to expand clinical knowledge, enhance role performance, and increase knowledge of professional issues. Floating may be required to locations within sixty miles of the original assignment or identified float zone. Float assignments may include duties outside of original job description in accordance with policy.

Location: Garden City, Kansas, US

Posted Date: 9/17/2025