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Registered Nurse, Neurological Intensive Care Unit Madison, WI. The position provides specialized care to critically ill adult and geriatric patients with complex neurological conditions, including stroke, hemorrhage, traumatic brain injury, and postoperative neurosurgical conditions. The role requires advanced critical-care assessment, monitoring, and intervention skills in a collaborative inpatient setting.
Job Details Required
Registered Nurse license valid in Wisconsin or a compact state; Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certifications through the American Heart Association (AHA); at least two years of acute-care experience within the past three years in the submitted specialty; travel nursing experience; Epic charting experience; experience caring for a two-to-one patient ratio; demonstrated ability to manage ventilated patients, arterial lines, central lines, external ventricular drains, lumbar drains, intracranial pressure monitoring, continuous sedation, vasoactive medications, dysrhythmias, and neurocritical-care patients.
Neurosurgery experience and Level I trauma experience.
Night shifts consisting of 12-hour shifts from 7:00 PM to 7:30 AM, totaling 36 hours per week, with every other weekend rotation and some holiday coverage; four 12-hour shifts and Friday-through-Sunday block scheduling may be accepted. Additional Information: The 18-bed neurological intensive care unit treats adult and geriatric patients with ischemic stroke, post-thrombectomy and post-lysis conditions, subarachnoid and cerebral hemorrhage, status epilepticus, postoperative brain tumor resection, aneurysm clipping and coiling, traumatic brain injury, and spinal cord injury.
The role includes specialized critical-care interventions such as hemodynamic monitoring, hypothermia protocols, ventilator management, chest tube care, blood product administration, high-flow oxygen therapy, infection prevention, procedural sedation monitoring, and care of patients requiring surgical and neurological intensive care. A telemetry examination is required before the start of the assignment and includes adult and pediatric cardiac rhythm interpretation criteria.
Benefits The benefits of taking a travel assignment with Cross Country include: Private housing or generous housing allowance Comprehensive health insurance with prescription coverage Dependent health insurance with prescription coverage Competitive salaries Referral bonuses Travel reimbursement 401(k) retirement plan Direct deposit/free checking Unlimited free CE credits Posted Date: 2026-10-23
About the role
The position provides specialized care to critically ill adult and geriatric patients with complex neurological conditions, including stroke, hemorrhage, traumatic brain injury, and postoperative neurosurgical conditions. The role requires advanced critical-care assessment, monitoring, and intervention skills in a collaborative inpatient setting.