Permanent Critical Care Placement
Our flagship service. We refer permanent critical care nurses and nurse leaders whose experience aligns with your staffing and ratio goals. Stabilization outcomes depend on your facility's leadership and operations; we present candidates who fit, and you make the call. Need coverage while you search? Explore our interim placement option.
Targeted Passive Search
We do not post on job boards and wait. We proactively engage critical care nurses and nurse leaders from our national network who are currently working, not looking. Every outreach is personal, confidential, and tailored to what makes your opportunity compelling.
Experience-Based Conversations
Every candidate is discussed on stated experience first, then licensure status, and retention history. We talk through the candidate's background in patient assessment, ventilator management, and hemodynamic monitoring; clinical competency validation remains with the facility. We match unit acuity and specialty mix to candidate experience. Acuity to acuity, every time.
Cultural Alignment Matching
Technical fit is table stakes. We go deeper, assessing leadership style, communication approach, and cultural fit with your executive team. A nurse leader who thrives in a collaborative CNO-led culture is different from one who needs a hands-off reporting structure.
Employment History Review
We walk through every candidate's work history with them, including the short stays that often raise questions on paper. We have seen plenty of cases where a resume looked like job-hopping but the reality was a string of travel or interim assignments under one agency. We clarify those gaps and contract stints for the hiring manager up front, so nothing gets misread during the interview process.
Replacement Search Assurance
We stand behind our process. If a placement does not work out within the guarantee period, we will re-run the search at no additional fee. The employer remains responsible for all hiring, supervision, and employment decisions; we present candidates and you make the call.
Placement Fee Structures
Every search is different. Choose the engagement model that fits your hiring timeline and risk profile.
Contingency
You pay only when you hire a referred candidate. No upfront commitment; the fee is tied entirely to a successful placement.
Retained
An exclusive, dedicated search with a structured fee paid in stages. Best for director-level and hard-to-fill leadership roles where focus and discretion matter.
Hybrid
A blended model: one-third of the placement fee is paid to launch the search, and the remaining two-thirds is due upon successful hire. Balances commitment with flexibility.
What We Screen Every Candidate On (Candidate-Reported)
Candidate-reported experience working with intensivists, pulmonologists, and surgical specialists, building relationships that hold up under pressure
Reported experience managing ICU bed capacity, throughput planning, and high-acuity surgical or medical caseloads
Candidate-reported track record with staff retention, engagement, and managing the mix of travelers vs full-timers on the unit
Reported experience standing up new ICU wings, opening CVICU/Neuro ICU beds, or leading through hospital expansion projects
Start Your Permanent Search
A well-matched permanent critical care nurse can support your unit's long-term stability. Let us find them.