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Find travel ICU nurse jobs in Tennessee near you or anywhere you'd rather be: distance sorting covers Nashville, Memphis, and Knoxville.

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    A Tennessee ICU contract can shift from a large subspecialty service to a mixed community unit within the same referral region. ICU travel nurse jobs in Tennessee appear across Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga, and the Tri-Cities, with smaller hospitals feeding patients into those hubs. Major centers may divide medical, cardiac, neuro, trauma, and pediatric critical care, while regional units can expect broader diagnosis coverage and transfer coordination. Review the unit subtype, common ventilators and vasoactive drips, invasive monitoring, postoperative exposure, progressive-care floating, and traveler duties during rapid response or code events. At community hospitals, confirm which patients remain on site and which move to another system. Clinical fit depends on the unit's specialty resources, not simply the Tennessee market.

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    Tennessee Pay by Service Line

    Updated today

    Pair compensation with the listed ICU scope, schedule, call, weekend rotation, onboarding and cancellation provisions.

    4 ICU contracts are open in Tennessee right now, with +2 added in the last 7 days. Open postings have been live about 22 days on average.

    4
    Open ICU jobs
    22 days
    Median time active
    +2
    Added last 7 days
    0.654
    Tennessee critical-care CLABSI standardized infection ratio, 2024 (CDC)
    Why demand stays strong
    0.347
    Tennessee critical-care CAUTI standardized infection ratio, 2024 (CDC)
    0.767
    Tennessee critical-care VAE standardized infection ratio, 2024 (CDC)
    72,200
    Registered nurses employed in Tennessee (BLS OEWS, May 2025)

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

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    Tennessee Referral Hubs and Feeder Hospitals

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    A Tennessee ICU search may cover Nashville, Memphis, Knoxville, Chattanooga, and the Tri-Cities. The location is secondary to the unit description, which should state patient population, specialty, devices, schedule, floating, orientation and contract details.

    Highest weekly pay · ICU
    Smyrna
    $2,261
    Nashville
    $1,784
    Chattanooga
    $1,783
    Springfield
    $1,783

    Before accepting in Tennessee, make sure the stated ICU specialty, device expectations, weekend pattern, float policy, compact privilege and complete pay breakdown agree across the posting and offer.

    Weekly pay reflects current open Advantis contracts — marketplace contract value, not a staff-nurse wage.
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    Tennessee ICU Infection-Prevention Results

    Device-associated infection data provides a clinical lens on Tennessee critical care rather than a generic demand claim. Tennessee's July 2025 HAI report found 31% fewer central line-associated bloodstream infections than predicted in adult and pediatric ICUs in 2022. It also reported 47% fewer catheter-associated urinary tract infections than predicted in those ICU settings. Both comparisons use a national 2015 baseline and describe infection surveillance, not staffing levels or travel-job volume. For an ICU traveler, the useful questions are operational: how the unit manages central-line and catheter bundles, which device competencies are expected on arrival, and how orientation covers local escalation and review practices. Those details may differ between large Memphis or Nashville referral centers and community units that stabilize and transfer selected patients.

    The Authority narrative summarizes Tennessee's 2022 adult and pediatric ICU results published in July 2025; the KPI row separately reports 2024 CDC critical-care CLABSI, CAUTI, and VAE SIRs. All are infection-surveillance measures, not ICU staffing or travel-job demand estimates.
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    Tennessee ICU Contracts, Answered

    Does a multistate license cover ICU jobs in Tennessee?
    It does, as long as both things are true at once: your license says multistate, and you live in a compact state. Tennessee's a member, so there's nothing else to file. Having one without the other is the usual problem, and it means applying to Tennessee first. Sort that out before you look at start dates.
    What do Tennessee ICU jobs require?
    You'll need BLS and ACLS. CCRN is preferred rather than required, and it reads best at the academic units in Nashville and Memphis. Most jobs want a recent year or two of critical care. Around 72,200 RNs work in Tennessee, spread across four metros that don't really overlap. Each hospital writes its own list.
    Why do two Tennessee ICU jobs pay differently?
    Because one is harder to fill than the other. How many nurses live near that hospital, which shift it is, and how long the job's been open do the work. Two units with the same title can land far apart. What's behind any one number is up to the hospital and the unit, so ask your recruiter. Live pay by city is in the chart above.
    What should I have ready to apply for Tennessee ICU jobs?
    License verified, BLS and ACLS current, critical care checklist done, two references who've seen you recently, and your immunizations on hand. Screening timelines are different at every hospital. Having the file ready is what turns a job you like into an application the same day instead of next week.