ICU | Registered Nurse

Travel ICU Registered Nurse (RN) – Critical Care Contract in San Francisco, CA

Apply for a San Francisco ICU travel nursing job offering $2,200–$2,320 weekly for an experienced critical care Registered Nurse (RN). Join a high-acuity critical care float pool and provide exceptional care to adult and geriatric patients across a dynamic academic healthcare environment in San Francisco, California. This role is ideal for an adaptable ICU travel nurse who enjoys working with diverse patient populations, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, and expanding clinical experience across intensive care, acute care, telemetry, and procedural settings.

Located in the scenic 94131 area, San Francisco offers a vibrant urban lifestyle with beautiful hills, diverse neighborhoods, renowned cultural attractions, outstanding dining, and abundant outdoor recreation.

Travel Nursing Job Details

• Position: ICU Registered Nurse (RN)
• Employment Type: Travel nursing contract
• Location: San Francisco, California 94131
• Weekly Estimated Pay: $2,200–$2,320
• Contract Dates: October 27, 2026–April 20, 2027
• Duration: Approximately 25 weeks
• Schedule: 36 hours per week; three 12-hour shifts
• Shift: Rotating days and nights; day shifts approximately 7:00 a.m.–7:30 p.m. and night shifts approximately 7:00 p.m.–7:30 a.m.
• Healthcare Setting: Adult critical care float pool in a large teaching hospital environment
• Patient Ratios: Approximately 2:1 in ICU settings; acute care, telemetry, or TCU assignments may be up to 3:1
• Floating: Ability to float among multiple nearby campuses, departments, and units based on operational need
• Charting: Epic experience preferred
• Orientation: 24 hours

ICU Travel Nurse Requirements

• At least 2.5 years of recent adult medical-surgical critical care RN experience
• Experience in a variety of critical care areas, such as medical-surgical, cardiac, neuro, surgical, or transplant ICU
• Current California RN license in hand
• BSN required
• Current AHA BLS and ACLS certifications
• NIHSS certification or experience preferred
• Travel nursing experience required
• Teaching hospital experience required
• Recent float pool, PACU, or emergency department experience preferred
• Strong ability to adapt quickly and float to a range of critical care and acute care assignments
• Two professional references from the most recent employer available at submission
• All requested time off must be disclosed during submission and approved before the contract begins; time off cannot be scheduled during the first two weeks of the assignment

Critical Care RN Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive nursing care to critically ill adult and geriatric patients in ICU and related acute care environments.
• Care for patients with complex medical, surgical, cardiac, neurologic, respiratory, renal, transplant, and multisystem conditions.
• Monitor and manage ventilated patients, high-flow oxygen, BiPAP/CPAP, arterial lines, central lines, chest tubes, drains, and advanced hemodynamic monitoring.
• Safely titrate vasoactive, cardiac, sedative, insulin, and other critical care infusions according to established protocols.
• Recognize and respond to changes in patient condition, including dysrhythmias, respiratory failure, acute kidney injury, sepsis, stroke, and multisystem organ dysfunction.
• Support patients requiring advanced therapies such as CRRT/CVVHD, ECMO, IABP, Impella, LVAD/RVAD, EVD, and intracranial pressure monitoring as assigned.
• Float to ICU, TCU, telemetry, acute care, emergency department boarding, and PACU boarding assignments while maintaining safe, evidence-based care.
• Collaborate with physicians, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, rapid response teams, rehabilitation professionals, and other members of the interdisciplinary care team.
• Complete accurate documentation in Epic and provide thorough handoff communication during transitions of care.
• Promote patient safety, infection prevention, quality outcomes, and compassionate care in every assignment.

Apply now for this ICU travel nursing opportunity and join a leading critical care team in San Francisco, California.

Benefits

401K with Matching, Healthcare, Dental and Vision

Equal Opportunity

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity across our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.