NICU - Neonatal Intensive Care

Opportunity:

RN - NICU

Job Details:

• 13-week assignment with 36 or 48 hours per week accepted
• Night shift schedule
• 3 weekends required per 6-week scheduling period; every other holiday
• Unable to approve time off Labor Day weekend
• Maximum of 40 hours of time off per 13-week contract; no additional time off approved after offer acceptance
• Cannot approve time off during the first two weeks of assignment
• Patient ratios: 1:2 days, 2-3 nights and weekends; 1:1 or 1:2 for ICU and 1:3 for Stepdown
• Required to float to PICU, Pediatrics, Postpartum, and L&D (baby catcher); floats include catching and transitioning newborns in L&D, newborn care in MB/PP, and infant care under 1 year in Peds and PICU
• 2 years of experience required
• Full-time Level III NICU experience is required; floating experience does not fulfill this requirement; Level IV experience is highly preferred
• Charting system: Epic (required)
• Required certifications: BLS, NRP (must be in-hand at time of submission), and Dr. Brown's Infant Driven Feeding Certificate (can submit with certification pending)
• BSN preferred
• Required skills include: High Frequency Ventilation, conventional ventilators, iNO, tracheostomy care, NIPPV/NIMV, CPAP/BiPAP, IV fluid management including drips, hemodynamic support, post-op care, whole body cooling, admissions, IV placements, lab draws (heels and venous), wound/drain/line care, ostomy care, CVL dressing changes, IV fluid changes, titrating IV fluids, ABG interpretation, medication calculations, and assisting with intubation, lumbar puncture, PICC placement, umbilical line placement, and chest tube placement
• Special equipment includes: ECMO, Arctic Sun for whole body cooling of HIE patients, Drager Ventilators, HFOV/HFJV, and bCPAP
• Patient population includes neonates and infants with diagnoses such as extreme prematurity (22 weeks and above), IUGR, RDS, BPD, TTN, PPHN, pneumonia, NEC, sepsis, all cardiac anomalies, neurologic, endocrine, renal, gastrointestinal, skeletal, and genetic anomalies, ROP, NAS, hypoglycemia, jaundice, and FTT
• Admits all infant cardiac patients prior to transfer to PICU following open chest surgery
• Interdisciplinary support available including physical therapy, respiratory services, interpretation services, radiology, social services, pharmacy, transportation, and unit secretary
• 54-bed unit with a daily census of 54