Travel Nurse RN - Intensive Care Unit (ICU) / Critical Care - $1,657 per week in Austin, TX

Company: Mindlance Health
Location: Austin
Posted on: February 21, 2026

Job Description:

Registered Nurse (RN) | Intensive Care Unit (ICU) / Critical Care Location: Austin, TX Agency: Mindlance Health Pay: $1,657 per week Shift Information: Days - 3 days x 12 hours Contract Duration: 13 Weeks Start Date: 3/1/2026 About the Position ID: 75306286 Shift: 06:45 AM-07:15 PM Description: Required Experience: Minimum of one year of ICU experience.Summary: The ICU RN provides comprehensive, evidence-based nursing care to critically ill adult patients requiring continuous monitoring, advanced interventions, and complex clinical decision-making. The RN functions as a patient advocate, clinical expert, and collaborative team member within a fast-paced, high-acuity environment.Key Responsibilities:- Provide direct nursing care in accordance with established policies, procedures, and protocols.- Care for critically ill adult patients, including those requiring mechanical ventilation, vasoactive infusions, invasive hemodynamic monitoring, and post-operative or post-procedural critical care.- Perform ongoing, detailed patient assessments and reassessments.- Interpret and respond to cardiac rhythms, lab results, arterial blood gases, and hemodynamic data.- Titrate medications per provider orders and unit protocols.- Identify subtle changes in patient condition and initiate timely interventions.- Manage emergency situations, including codes, rapid deterioration, and complex procedures.Ideal Candidate communication, proactive nature, strong initiative, integrity, responsibility, commitment to patient and family advocacy, problem-solving skills, good teamwork, and a foundational knowledge of pathophysiology.BLS, ACLS, NIH Required. Unit Description: ICU is 8 beds 2:1 ratioWill float to IMC IMC is 6 beds 3:1 ratio.Charge Nurse out of numbers most of the time and covers both ICU/IMC, CRT and Code's in house.Patient : medical, CHF, cardiac, sepsis, septic shock, ARDs, renal failure, etoh withdrawal, GI bleeds, suicide, COPD, pancreatitis, respiratory failure, vents, bipaps, trachs, CRRT.ASNW ICU/IMC is a nurse driven unit, no physician residents to think for you and Critical Care Physicians are not in house 24/7. It is an open ICU/IMC unit where Internal Medicine Physicians admit all critical patients then consult the Critical Care Physician and other specialty physicians if needed. Critical Care physicians round daily on patients and are always available by phone.All staff communicate via Voalte phone, so all multidisciplinary team members, physicians, dieticians, social workers are linked to the nurse and patient for communication and questions. - For ; For ; Verification - For ; For ; Checklist/ Specialty Exam - For ; For ; Personal Health Color Vision - For ; For ; Checklist/ Core Competencies - For ; For ; Checklist/ EKG Exam - For ; For ; Checklist/ Unit Specific Checklist - For ; For ; Onboarding Requirements Education Attestation - For ; For ; Nursing Contract Worker Onboarding - For ; For ; Nova StatStrip - For ; For ; Checklist/ Cerner Test-Out - For ; For ; Personal Health - For ; For ; Personal Health Test - For ; For ; Personal Health B - For ; For ; Personal Health Vaccine - For ; For ; Personal Health PPD- Negative Chest X-Ray and Annual TB Questionnaire - For ; For ; Personal Health Statement - For ; For ; License/State ID - For ; For ; Personal Health History:2 Step PPD OR IGRA (Quantiferon/Tspot) - For ; For ; Personal Health - For ; For ; Personal Health - For ; For ; Profile - For ; For ; 2 Professional References - For ; For ; Criminal Background Check Results - For ; For ; EPLS - For ; For ; Checklist/ Skills Checklist - For ; For ; Personal Health 12 Panel Drug Screen - For ; For ; Education Verification - For ; For ; Confirmation of Assignment - For ; For ; Employment Verification - For ; For ; Manager Evaluation - For ; For ; Name Change Document - For ; For ; Badge Photo - For ; For ; Order Requisition Reason Permanent Positions , License/Certificate Verification , License/Certificate Verification Guaranteed Hours: 36 Contract Weeks:90 Requirements Required for Onboarding ACLS BLS Core Exam - Nursing ICU/CCU RN Exam ICU/CCU RN Skills Checklist Ishihara Colorvision Screening

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