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ICU Travel Nurse Jobs in Colorado

Browse ICU RN travel jobs in Colorado across Denver and the Western Slope, keeping favorites handy while you weigh pay and shifts.

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    Choose Colorado ICU Work by Referral Geography

    Critical care travel roles in Colorado are shaped by geography as much as hospital size. ICU travel nurse jobs in Colorado span large Front Range systems in Denver, Aurora, Colorado Springs, and Fort Collins, plus regional hospitals on the Western Slope and in mountain or plains communities. A metro assignment may offer separate medical, surgical, cardiac, neuro, or trauma ICUs with extensive specialty backup. A smaller unit may manage a broader diagnosis mix while coordinating transfers around distance, weather, and transport availability. Evaluate the service line, ventilator and drip expectations, invasive monitoring, mechanical-support exposure, step-down floating, and overnight specialist coverage. Also ask how the hospital handles escalation when road or air movement is delayed. Travel distance and referral role shape the clinical fit more than a statewide market label.

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    Colorado Packages Across Geography

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    Do not let a weekly total obscure patient population, device expectations, orientation, floating or license clearance.

    3 ICU contracts are open in Colorado right now, with +2 added in the last 7 days and 1 already filled. Open postings have been live about 6 days on average.

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    Open ICU jobs
    6 days
    Median time active
    +2
    Added last 7 days
    496K
    Inpatients cared for by Colorado hospitals in 2024 (CHA)
    Why demand stays strong
    2.26M
    Inpatient days at Colorado hospitals in 2024 (CHA)
    54,490
    Registered nurses employed in Colorado (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
    106 hospitals
    Total Colorado hospital network in March 2026 (CHA)

    Live counts from the jobs feed, updated daily. Demand figures from public workforce data, sources noted with each figure.

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    Front Range, Western Slope, and Mountain Units

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    Colorado location filters include Denver, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, Grand Junction, and the Western Slope. Use them to find postings, then confirm service line, patient age range, transfers, call, orientation, guaranteed hours and cancellations before comparing compensation.

    Highest weekly pay · ICU
    Golden
    $2,273
    Lafayette
    $2,003
    Grand Junction
    $1,985

    A Colorado comparison should end with one documented picture of the service line, transfers, call, floating, hours, overtime, cancellations and license status, not separate assumptions about each item.

    Weekly pay reflects current open Advantis contracts — marketplace contract value, not a staff-nurse wage.
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    Colorado ICU Device-Safety Signals

    Colorado's 2024 critical-care surveillance adds a clinical layer to the state's hospital-network context. The CDC workbook reports a critical-care CLABSI standardized infection ratio of 0.782 and a critical-care VAE standardized infection ratio of 1.173. The central-line result was below the risk-adjusted prediction, while the ventilator-associated-event result was above it. Neither statewide SIR measures staffing, ranks hospitals, or predicts the workflow of a particular ICU. For Colorado travelers, the useful follow-up is facility-specific: ask how the unit handles line necessity, ventilator-event review, respiratory escalation, overnight intensivist support, and transfers from mountain, plains, or Western Slope hospitals. Those practices can differ sharply between Front Range referral centers and regional mixed ICUs.

    Both values are 2024 risk-adjusted statewide SIRs for acute-care-hospital critical-care locations; they do not measure ICU staffing or rank individual facilities.
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    Colorado ICU Contracts: What to Know

    How soon can I start an ICU contract in Colorado?
    With a multistate or compact license, as soon as credentialing clears. Colorado honors the privilege and the state board is not in your way. With a single-state license, or a residence outside the compact, Colorado endorsement comes first and takes real calendar time. Start that application before you compare start dates rather than after.
    What do Colorado ICU submissions require?
    BLS and ACLS expected, CCRN preferred. Recent critical care of a year or two is the usual bar. Colorado hospitals handled around 496,000 inpatients over 2.26 million inpatient days in 2024, spread between Denver academic units and rural critical-access ICUs that read the same credentials in completely different ways. The facility sets the list.
    What lifts one Colorado ICU rate above another?
    The facility's position relative to the local nursing supply, the shift, and how long the role has stayed open. With roughly 54,490 RNs employed statewide across a 106-hospital network, the rural side competes for a much thinner pool than the Front Range does. The details behind any individual posting vary by facility and unit; your recruiter is the source there.
    What should I have ready to apply for Colorado ICU jobs?
    Confirm your license class in Nursys, keep BLS and ACLS live, finish the critical care checklist, line up two recent referees, and have immunizations on hand. Screens and background checks run on the facility's clock, not a standard one. That file is the difference between watching a posting and being in on it.