Travel Nurse (RN) - Pediatric Critical Care Float Pool

Required Skills/Experience:
NICU experience is required.
Must be comfortable with NICU, Acute Pediatrics, and the Pediatric ED.
Previous NICU/PICU float pool experience may be considered.
Teaching hospital experience is required.

Preferred Skills/Experience:
Peds PACU experience highly preferred.
Level III NICU experience preferred.
Previous Charge Experience: Preferred
Community hospital experience is preferred.

Required Credentials:
Any hit on your license must be disclosed. Hits will be sent to UVA leadership for approval prior to proceeding.
Dr. Brown's Infant-Driven Feeding Certificate is required, but it may be pending at submission; the certification costs $185.

Special Requests:
Travelers are not eligible to return after reaching 365 total assignment days, regardless of time away.
Up to 40 hours of RTO may be approved.
No RTO can be approved during the first 2 weeks of the assignment.

Unit Details:
Patient population includes neonates, infants, pediatric patients, adolescents, and adults.
NICU cares for intensive and intermediate-care infants, including those with extreme prematurity, congenital defects, surgical needs, respiratory distress, neurological disorders, and other diagnoses.
NICU nurses attend high-risk deliveries and provide neonatal resuscitation for infants with extreme prematurity and other birth complications.
NICU care includes respiratory, hemodynamic, and thermoregulation monitoring and support, ECMO, and hypothermia treatment. Care emphasizes relationship-based practice with families as care partners.
Acute Pediatrics primarily admits cardiology, surgery, general pediatric medicine, and hematology-oncology patients and includes an epilepsy-monitoring area.
PICU cares for cardiac and medical illnesses, including congenital cardiac defects, respiratory disease, trauma injuries, liver, heart, and kidney transplantation, neurosurgical, orthopedic, and general surgical cases.
PICU care includes vasoactive infusions, mechanical ventilation, intracranial and hemodynamic monitoring, ECMO, and ventricular assist devices (VADs).
The Pediatric ED cares for patients ages 0-21 and prioritizes cases according to emergency level.
Typical ratios include 1:2 in the PICU; 1:2 or 1:3 in the NICU; 1:3 in the Acute Pediatrics intermediate area; 1:4, possibly 1:5, in Acute Pediatrics; and variable ratios in the Pediatric ED depending on the level of care required.

Shift & Scheduling:
Flexible contract hours: 36 or 48 per week.
Every other weekend and every other holiday.
Must work 2 out of the 3 winter holidays.

Floating Requirements:
Floats to various pediatric units, including PICU, NICU, Acute Pediatrics, pediatric Med-Surg, pediatric PACU, pediatric ED boarders, and postpartum/Mother-Baby.
May be required to float to L&D and Mother/Baby if those areas are experiencing a staffing crisis.

Details:

• AUTO OFFER - NO INTERVIEW: This is an auto-offer position. You will likely not interview with the facility prior to receiving an offer. However, an interview can be arranged upon request. All time off requests must be submitted at application. Scheduling requests must be worked out with the manager directly upon starting the assignment. Any offers for this job will require a clear "Yes" or "No" response from the nurse within 24hrs or the offer must be declined.

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