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Intensive Care Unit Travel Nursing Jobs in Council Bluffs, IA for RNs

Find Top RN Intensive Care Unit Travel Nursing Jobs in Council Bluffs, Iowa

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travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Intensive Care – ICU
  • Omaha, Nebraska – 68122
    Distance from Council Bluffs: 4 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 7, 2025
  • 13
$1,967 to $2,168
Weekly Pay*
This outstanding unit is looking for the right person to join their team of compassionate and driven health care professionals. Join this highly motivated team of caregivers and enjoy a challenging and welcoming environment based on optimal patient care.
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Intensive Care – ICU
  • Fremont, Nebraska – 68025
    Distance from Council Bluffs: 35 miles
  • 12 N,
  • June 30, 2025
  • 13
$2,056 to $2,265
Weekly Pay*
This position presents an opportunity to join an elite team of passionate physicians and nurses within the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). You’ll find a challenging and rewarding environment where patient care is firmly rooted in compassion, innovation, and a drive for great outcomes. This highly esteemed facility welcomes creative, energetic caregivers.
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Intensive Care – ICU
  • Des Moines, Iowa – 50314
    Distance from Council Bluffs: 119 miles
  • 12 N,
  • August 4, 2025
  • 16
$1,787 to $1,969
Weekly Pay*
With more than 7,000 colleagues and a medical staff of more than 1,000 physicians and allied health professionals, MercyOne Central Iowa is one of Iowa’s largest employers. MercyOne Medical Group – Central Iowa is one of Iowa’s largest multispecialty clinic systems, made up of more than 50 primary care, pediatric, internal medicine and specialty clinics located throughout Dallas, Jasper, Polk, Wapello, Warren and Webster counties. MercyOne Central Iowa has several additional ministries including: Mercy College of Health Sciences, MercyOne Des Moines Foundation, MercyOne Health & Fitness Center and MercyOne Population Health Service Organization. In addition, 14 of Iowa’s community hospitals – from Bloomfield and Webster City to Greenfield and beyond – have chosen to affiliate with MercyOne Central Iowa. Through contracted relationships, MercyOne provides management and support services to these community hospitals, who work together to share best practices and process improvements, improve quality and service, and lower the cost of care. MercyOne Central Iowa is a member of MercyOne, which was founded in 1998 through a collaboration between CommonSpirit Health and Trinity Health – two of the country’s foremost, not-for-profit Catholic health organizations. The MercyOne system has more than 18,000 colleagues in Iowa and surrounding states.
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Intensive Care – ICU
  • Des Moines, Iowa – 50314
    Distance from Council Bluffs: 119 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 13, 2025
  • 13
$1,769 to $1,949
Weekly Pay*
With more than 7,000 colleagues and a medical staff of more than 1,000 physicians and allied health professionals, MercyOne Central Iowa is one of Iowa’s largest employers. MercyOne Medical Group – Central Iowa is one of Iowa’s largest multispecialty clinic systems, made up of more than 50 primary care, pediatric, internal medicine and specialty clinics located throughout Dallas, Jasper, Polk, Wapello, Warren and Webster counties. MercyOne Central Iowa has several additional ministries including: Mercy College of Health Sciences, MercyOne Des Moines Foundation, MercyOne Health & Fitness Center and MercyOne Population Health Service Organization. In addition, 14 of Iowa’s community hospitals – from Bloomfield and Webster City to Greenfield and beyond – have chosen to affiliate with MercyOne Central Iowa. Through contracted relationships, MercyOne provides management and support services to these community hospitals, who work together to share best practices and process improvements, improve quality and service, and lower the cost of care. MercyOne Central Iowa is a member of MercyOne, which was founded in 1998 through a collaboration between CommonSpirit Health and Trinity Health – two of the country’s foremost, not-for-profit Catholic health organizations. The MercyOne system has more than 18,000 colleagues in Iowa and surrounding states.
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Intensive Care – ICU
  • Des Moines, Iowa – 50314
    Distance from Council Bluffs: 119 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 7, 2025
  • 13
$1,540 to $1,697
Weekly Pay*
With more than 7,000 colleagues and a medical staff of more than 1,000 physicians and allied health professionals, MercyOne Central Iowa is one of Iowa’s largest employers. MercyOne Medical Group – Central Iowa is one of Iowa’s largest multispecialty clinic systems, made up of more than 50 primary care, pediatric, internal medicine and specialty clinics located throughout Dallas, Jasper, Polk, Wapello, Warren and Webster counties. MercyOne Central Iowa has several additional ministries including: Mercy College of Health Sciences, MercyOne Des Moines Foundation, MercyOne Health & Fitness Center and MercyOne Population Health Service Organization. In addition, 14 of Iowa’s community hospitals – from Bloomfield and Webster City to Greenfield and beyond – have chosen to affiliate with MercyOne Central Iowa. Through contracted relationships, MercyOne provides management and support services to these community hospitals, who work together to share best practices and process improvements, improve quality and service, and lower the cost of care. MercyOne Central Iowa is a member of MercyOne, which was founded in 1998 through a collaboration between CommonSpirit Health and Trinity Health – two of the country’s foremost, not-for-profit Catholic health organizations. The MercyOne system has more than 18,000 colleagues in Iowa and surrounding states.
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Intensive Care – ICU
  • Grand Island, Nebraska – 68803
    Distance from Council Bluffs: 131 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 7, 2025
  • 13
$1,967 to $2,168
Weekly Pay*
This position presents an opportunity to join an elite team of passionate physicians and nurses within the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). You’ll find a challenging and rewarding environment where patient care is firmly rooted in compassion, innovation, and a drive for great outcomes. This highly esteemed facility welcomes creative, energetic caregivers.
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Intensive Care – ICU
  • Spencer, Iowa – 51301
    Distance from Council Bluffs: 135 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 10, 2025
  • 13
$2,109 to $2,324
Weekly Pay*
This position presents an opportunity to join an elite team of passionate physicians and nurses within the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). You’ll find a challenging and rewarding environment where patient care is firmly rooted in compassion, innovation, and a drive for great outcomes. This highly esteemed facility welcomes creative, energetic caregivers.
travel Exclusive Compact State
Registered Nurse – Intensive Care – ICU
  • Overland Park, Kansas – 66204
    Distance from Council Bluffs: 170 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 14, 2025
  • 13
$1,762 to $1,941
Weekly Pay*
Advent Health is a multi-regional healthcare system with 45 award-winning facilities located across nine states. A five-time winner of the Gallup Great Work Place Award and a long standing organization with a tradition of caring for the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of every patient. Come work for a leader in total healthcare advancement!
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Intensive Care – ICU
  • Kearney, Nebraska – 68848
    Distance from Council Bluffs: 172 miles
  • 12 N,
  • June 23, 2025
  • 13
$1,967 to $2,168
Weekly Pay*
This position presents an opportunity to join an elite team of passionate physicians and nurses within the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). You’ll find a challenging and rewarding environment where patient care is firmly rooted in compassion, innovation, and a drive for great outcomes. This highly esteemed facility welcomes creative, energetic caregivers.
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Intensive Care – ICU
  • Kearney, Nebraska – 68848
    Distance from Council Bluffs: 172 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 7, 2025
  • 13
$1,967 to $2,168
Weekly Pay*
This position presents an opportunity to join an elite team of passionate physicians and nurses within the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). You’ll find a challenging and rewarding environment where patient care is firmly rooted in compassion, innovation, and a drive for great outcomes. This highly esteemed facility welcomes creative, energetic caregivers.
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Intensive Care – ICU
  • Kearney, Nebraska – 68848
    Distance from Council Bluffs: 172 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 7, 2025
  • 13
$1,967 to $2,168
Weekly Pay*
This position presents an opportunity to join an elite team of passionate physicians and nurses within the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). You’ll find a challenging and rewarding environment where patient care is firmly rooted in compassion, innovation, and a drive for great outcomes. This highly esteemed facility welcomes creative, energetic caregivers.
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Intensive Care – ICU
  • Kearney, Nebraska – 68848
    Distance from Council Bluffs: 172 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 7, 2025
  • 13
$1,967 to $2,168
Weekly Pay*
This position presents an opportunity to join an elite team of passionate physicians and nurses within the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). You’ll find a challenging and rewarding environment where patient care is firmly rooted in compassion, innovation, and a drive for great outcomes. This highly esteemed facility welcomes creative, energetic caregivers.
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Intensive Care – ICU
  • Ottumwa, Iowa – 52501
    Distance from Council Bluffs: 180 miles
  • 12 D,
  • July 14, 2025
  • 13
$1,862 to $2,052
Weekly Pay*
For more than 125 years, Ottumwa Regional Health Center has been serving the community of Ottumwa and the citizens of Southeast Iowa. We are a regional health center providing a wide range of health services, including emergency medicine, critical care services, medical/surgical, acute rehabilitation, obstetrics, and pediatrics, as well as specialty services such as cardiac catheterization, diagnostic and therapeutic radiological services, wound care, pain clinic, sleep lab, pathology, and so much more.
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Intensive Care – ICU
  • Ottumwa, Iowa – 52501
    Distance from Council Bluffs: 180 miles
  • 12 N,
  • June 30, 2025
  • 13
$1,862 to $2,052
Weekly Pay*
Ottumwa Regional Health Center 1001 E Pennsylvania Ave, Ottumwa, IA 52501 Our high-quality medical staff, many of whom are board-certified, offer a complete range of services from family practice and internal medicine to specialties such as general surgery, gastroenterology, orthopedics, urology, cardiology, radiation oncology, and more. Our highly trained and dedicated associates work closely as a team to provide individualized, seamless care to our patients and caring support to families and friends. Thank you for the opportunity to serve your healthcare needs. For more than 125 years, Ottumwa Regional Health Center has been serving the community of Ottumwa and the citizens of Southeast Iowa. We are a regional health center providing a wide range of health services, including emergency medicine, critical care services, medical/surgical, acute rehabilitation, obstetrics, and pediatrics, as well as specialty services such as cardiac catheterization, diagnostic and therapeutic radiological services, wound care, pain clinic, sleep lab, pathology, and so much more.
travel Exclusive Compact State
Registered Nurse – Intensive Care – ICU
  • Ottawa, Kansas – 66067
    Distance from Council Bluffs: 186 miles
  • 12 N,
  • June 30, 2025
  • 13
$1,756 to $1,935
Weekly Pay*
Advent Health is a multi-regional healthcare system with 45 award-winning facilities located across nine states. A five-time winner of the Gallup Great Work Place Award and a long standing organization with a tradition of caring for the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of every patient. Come work for a leader in total healthcare advancement!
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Intensive Care – ICU
  • West Burlington, Iowa – 52655
    Distance from Council Bluffs: 247 miles
  • 12 N,
  • June 23, 2025
  • 13
$2,144 to $2,363
Weekly Pay*
Delivers care to patients utilizing the nursing process of assessment, planning, intervention, implementation, and evaluation in coordination with other health team members. Effectively interacts with the patient, significant others, and other health team members while maintaining high standards of professional nursing. Provides high quality care to the following patient populations: Adult cardiac/ telemetry, Stroke, Vascular intervention, Hemodynamic monitoring.
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Intensive Care – ICU
  • West Burlington, Iowa – 52655
    Distance from Council Bluffs: 247 miles
  • 12 D,
  • July 1, 2025
  • 13
$2,144 to $2,363
Weekly Pay*
This outstanding unit is looking for the right RN to join their team of compassionate and driven health care professionals. Join this highly motivated team of caregivers and enjoy a challenging and welcoming environment based on optimal patient care. Delivers care to patients utilizing the nursing process of assessment, planning, intervention, implementation, and evaluation in coordination with other health team members. Effectively interacts with the patient, significant others, and other health team members while maintaining high standards of professional nursing. Provides high quality care to the following patient populations: Adult cardiac/ telemetry, Stroke, Vascular intervention, Hemodynamic monitoring.
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Intensive Care – ICU
  • Springfield, Missouri – 65804
    Distance from Council Bluffs: 311 miles
  • 12 N,
  • June 30, 2025
  • 13
$1,606 to $1,770
Weekly Pay*
This position presents an opportunity to join an elite team of passionate physicians and nurses within the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). You’ll find a challenging and rewarding environment where patient care is firmly rooted in compassion, innovation, and a drive for great outcomes. This highly esteemed facility welcomes creative, energetic caregivers.
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Intensive Care – ICU
  • Washington, Missouri – 63090
    Distance from Council Bluffs: 318 miles
  • 12 N,
  • June 23, 2025
  • 13
$1,606 to $1,770
Weekly Pay*
EMR-EPIC Scrub Color – Black
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Intensive Care – ICU
  • Washington, Missouri – 63090
    Distance from Council Bluffs: 318 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 1, 2025
  • 13
$1,606 to $1,770
Weekly Pay*
EMR-EPIC Scrub Color – Black
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Intensive Care – ICU
  • Washington, Missouri – 63090
    Distance from Council Bluffs: 318 miles
  • 12 N,
  • June 23, 2025
  • 13
$1,606 to $1,770
Weekly Pay*
EMR-EPIC Scrub Color – Black
travel Exclusive Compact State
Registered Nurse – Intensive Care – ICU
  • Aberdeen, South Dakota – 57105
    Distance from Council Bluffs: 319 miles
  • 12 D, 12 N,
  • July 21, 2025
  • 13
$2,514 to $2,771
Weekly Pay*
Avera St. Luke’s Hospital delivers comprehensive health care and extensive medical specialty services to residents of northeastern South Dakota and surrounding areas of Minnesota and North Dakota. More than a century ago, the Presentation Sisters of Aberdeen were called upon to turn their school classrooms to sick wards during a diphtheria epidemic. As a result of their response to this crisis, the doctors and citizens of Aberdeen asked the Sisters to establish a hospital. Through the decades, Avera St. Luke’s has continued to grow in response to health needs as part of the region-leading Avera Health system.
travel Exclusive Compact State
Registered Nurse – Intensive Care – ICU
  • Aberdeen, South Dakota – 57105
    Distance from Council Bluffs: 319 miles
  • 12 D, 12 N,
  • July 21, 2025
  • 13
$2,514 to $2,771
Weekly Pay*
Avera St. Luke’s Hospital delivers comprehensive health care and extensive medical specialty services to residents of northeastern South Dakota and surrounding areas of Minnesota and North Dakota. More than a century ago, the Presentation Sisters of Aberdeen were called upon to turn their school classrooms to sick wards during a diphtheria epidemic. As a result of their response to this crisis, the doctors and citizens of Aberdeen asked the Sisters to establish a hospital. Through the decades, Avera St. Luke’s has continued to grow in response to health needs as part of the region-leading Avera Health system.
travel Compact State
Registered Nurse – Intensive Care – ICU
  • Saint Louis, Missouri – 63128
    Distance from Council Bluffs: 351 miles
  • 12 N,
  • July 1, 2025
  • 13
$1,460 to $1,910
Weekly Pay*
EMR-EPIC Scrub Color – Black • Number of Beds: 16 • Patient Ratios: 1:2. We do not guarantee ratios. Careful consideration is given depending on the circumstance • Equipment: bedside telemetry, ventilators, bipap/cpap, ventriculostomy’s, Arterial lines, central lines, arctic sun, CRRT, Zoll, etc. • EMR: EPIC • Must Have Skills/Experience: 2 years ICU, inpatient only • Preferred Skillset/Experience: care of acute stroke, trauma and surgical patients Comprehensive stroke center, level 2 trauma center
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Statistics on ICU RN Jobs in Council Bluffs, Iowa

Here are some helpful statistics about ICU traveling nurse jobs in & near Council Bluffs. The data is based on the last three complete months of ICU job postings in the Council Bluffs and nearby areas. It is updated regularly, so you can find the most recent Intensive Care Unit job salary trends, the types of shifts, and contract durations most commonly available in Council Bluffs and more. Find out more about travel nursing salaries.

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FAQs About Travel ICU Nursing Jobs for RNs in Council Bluffs, IA

What types of shifts are most common for ICU travel jobs in Council Bluffs?

Based on the last 6 months of travel nurse jobs data, 12 Hour Night shifts were the most common in Council Bluffs and surrounding areas.

How much does a night shift Intensive Care Unit nurse make on average in Council Bluffs and nearby cities?

A: A 12 Hour Night shift Intensive Care Unit nurse in Council Bluffs can make an average of $1,924 per week based on recent job availability data.

What hospitals and healthcare facilities have Intensive Care Unit staff in or near Council Bluffs?

  • Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs
  • CHI – Creighton University Medical Center – Bergan Mercy in Omaha (4.2 miles from Council Bluffs)
  • CHI – Lakeside Hospital in Omaha (4.2 miles from Council Bluffs)
  • CHI Health Immanuel in Omaha (4.2 miles from Council Bluffs)

What is the most common contract for Intensive Care Unit travel jobs in Council Bluffs?

Based on recent data, the most common duration for a Intensive Care Unit job in Council Bluffs is 13 weeks.

Locating Intensive Care Unit Travel Nursing Jobs in Council Bluffs

In Council Bluffs, facilities like Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital, all offer ICU departments.

Other popular cities near Council Bluffs’s ICU job opportunities are Glenwood (16.1 miles), Missouri Valley (20.4 miles) and Red Oak (37.4 miles). These are near to zip codes: 68124 (4.2 miles), 68130 (4.2 miles) and 68122 (4.2 miles).

Council Bluffs Hospitals With ICU Departments

There are 2 hospitals & healthcare facilities that have ICU nurses in Council Bluffs. Sometimes it is useful to see what types of shifts, contract durations, and travel nurse housing in nearby neighborhoods each facility might offer in order to find the right opportunity for your next traveling ICU nurse position in or nearby Council Bluffs.

Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital
Shifts
12 D, 12 E, and 12 N
Job Durations
8 wks and 13 wks
Address
933 E Pierce St.
Council Bluffs, IA 51503
* Estimate of payments is intended for informational purposes and includes hourly wages, as well as reimbursements for meal & incidental expenses and housing expenses incurred on behalf of the Company. Please speak with a recruiter for additional details.