Travel Nurse (RN) - Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Required Skills/Experience:
2 years of strong Level 3 and/or Level 4 NICU experience. Must be comfortable in a high-acuity, fast-paced environment.
Experience with EVDs and the Camino device (ICP and temperature monitoring device) is required, along with management of critical-care vasoactive drip titration.
Required skills include management of invasive lines (ART lines/CVP), aseptic and sterile techniques, basic dressing changes, ventilator and tracheostomy management, and HFOV management.
Required skills include oral/nasal suctioning, G-tube/J-tube management, feeding tubes, chest tubes, epidurals, PCAs, sedation and analgesic drip management, and Foley insertion and management.
Required skills include Alaris and Medfusion pump management, bedside procedures with providers, discharge skills, CRRT experience, and the baby side of ECMO.
The manager has been flexible regarding EVD, ICP, ECMO, and CRRT experience.

Special Requests:
First-time travelers require manager approval depending on current staffing.
RTO requires manager approval; travelers with a significant amount of RTO will need to extend the contract to accommodate it.

Unit Details:
RN-to-patient ratios vary by acuity: 1:1, 1:2, or 1:3.
Common respiratory diagnoses include respiratory distress syndrome, TTN (transient tachypnea of the newborn), MAS (meconium aspiration), and bronchopulmonary dysplasia.
Common cardiac diagnoses include congenital heart defects (TOF, VSD, and HLHS), PDA, and persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN).
Common neurologic diagnoses include seizures, IVH, and hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.
Common GI/GU/musculoskeletal/endocrine diagnoses include necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), feeding intolerance, GER, acute/chronic renal failure, birth trauma, congenital anomalies, sepsis, NAS, TORCH infections, hypothermia, and hypoglycemia.
Equipment includes Alaris and Medfusion syringe pumps, Philips monitors, PIV ultrasound, and Tecotherm.
Omnicell is used for medication dispensing.
Breast milk scanning uses MOMs.
Centralized and bedside telemetry monitoring are available.

Shift & Scheduling:
Weekend rotation requires 2 Fridays and 2 Mondays, plus every other weekend (Saturday/Sunday) on each 6-week schedule.
The combination of the 2 Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, and Mondays can be grouped together or worked separately as long as those eight (8) shifts occur within the 6-week period.
Travelers will work holidays as scheduled.
The unit requirement is the eve and/or day after the holiday and the day of the holiday, every other holiday while contracted.
Schedules are set every 6 weeks based on unit needs after the team schedule is completed and approved; the clinical supervisor will provide dates of need.

Floating Requirements:
Travelers have no call; if the NICU cannot utilize them, they may be floated as needed to Pediatric CVICU, PICU, and general pediatrics as a helping hand, unless they have prior experience in any of these populations.

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