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ICU Travel Nurse Jobs in New York

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    Separate Adult ICU, PICU, and Mixed Critical Care in New York

    Facility role changes the meaning of critical-care work across New York. ICU travel nurse jobs in New York include New York City academic and transplant systems, Long Island referral hospitals, and regional units around Albany, Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo, with smaller facilities serving the North Country and Southern Tier. A tertiary assignment may focus on cardiac, neuro, surgical, trauma, transplant, or pediatric care. A mixed unit may require broader medical-surgical competence and earlier transfer coordination. Review respiratory-support platforms, vasoactive drips, invasive monitoring, mechanical-support exposure, and progressive-care floating. Ask which specialists are available overnight and how patients move between adult ICU, pediatric ICU, neonatal care, and step-down services. The job title matters less than the population, technology, and backup attached to it.

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    New York Contract Pay by Certified Service

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    Plan state authorization and onboarding with the same care used for weekly pay, guaranteed hours, shift and cancellation terms.

    5 ICU contracts are open in New York right now, with +1 added in the last 7 days and 1 already filled. Open postings have been live about 16 days on average.

    5
    Open ICU jobs
    16 days
    Median time active
    +1
    Added last 7 days
    208 bed-profile hospitals
    New York hospitals listed with total beds in NYSDOH Health Profiles
    Why demand stays strong
    56 NICU hospitals
    New York hospitals listed with neonatal intensive-care beds (NYSDOH)
    0.686
    New York critical-care CLABSI standardized infection ratio, 2024 (CDC)
    0.961
    New York critical-care VAE standardized infection ratio, 2024 (CDC)

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

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    New York Adult and Pediatric Referral Markets

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    New York listings may be organized through New York City, Long Island, Albany, Rochester, and Buffalo. Coordinate New York RN authorization with onboarding, then compare ICU subtype, patient population, devices, schedule, floating, orientation and the written package.

    Highest weekly pay · ICU
    Utica
    $2,336
    Glens Falls
    $2,295
    Geneva
    $2,170

    A New York start date is workable only after RN authority and onboarding are aligned. Compare unit scope, devices, schedule, floating, orientation, guaranteed hours and the complete package together.

    Weekly pay reflects current open Advantis contracts — marketplace contract value, not a staff-nurse wage.
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    New York ICU and Pediatric Care Reach

    Official hospital profiles show that adult and pediatric critical care are distributed through different networks. New York lists 151 hospitals with intensive-care beds and 30 hospitals with pediatric ICU beds. These are profile counts, not a real-time census of staffed or available beds, and a hospital can appear in more than one service category. The distinction matters for travelers. New York City and Long Island include academic, transplant, trauma, cardiac, neuro, and pediatric referral services, while Albany, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, and regional hospitals may combine populations or depend on transfer pathways. Before comparing contracts, identify whether the role is adult ICU, PICU, mixed critical care, or a unit adjacent to neonatal or progressive care. Confirm admission sources, intensivist and subspecialty coverage, accepted devices, and floating boundaries. The statewide counts establish reach; the facility's certified service and staffed operation determine the actual assignment.

    NYSDOH profile counts identify service categories, not real-time staffed or available beds.
    New York authorization and onboarding questions

    New York ICU Contracts: Plan the Licensing

    How far ahead do I need to plan for a New York ICU job?
    Further than for most states. New York enacted compact legislation but hasn't implemented it, so a multistate license won't authorize you here yet. You'll need a New York license by endorsement through the State Education Department's Office of the Professions, and that timeline sets your earliest start. File it before you shortlist anything.
    What do New York ICU jobs require?
    You'll need BLS and ACLS. CCRN is preferred rather than required, and it reads well at the academic centers. Most jobs want a recent year or two of critical care. The state health profiles list 208 hospitals with bed counts and 56 with neonatal intensive care, so the range of units here is unusually wide.
    What lifts one New York ICU rate above another?
    The shift, how long the unit's been looking, and how many nurses live nearby. New York is really several separate markets rather than one, and upstate answers that question very differently than the city does. Anything tied to a specific job is up to the hospital and the unit. Live weekly pay by city is ranked in the chart above.
    What should I have ready to apply for New York ICU jobs?
    The license application in motion first, because it gates everything else. Then BLS and ACLS current, a critical care checklist, two recent references, and immunization records. Run the license and your paperwork side by side, and the hospital's clock can start the moment the state's clock stops.