Travel Nurse (RN) - Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Required Skills/Experience:
Must have delivery attendance experience.
Placement of IVs in neonates is required.
Drawing labs is required.
Compassion, empathy, and customer service skills are required.
Experience as a Level III NICU nurse is required.
Management of ventilators and central lines is required.
Medication administration is required via IV, IM, SQ, ETT, OGT, NGT, oral, rectal, and/or topical routes, as well as instilling eye drops or ointment.
Blood administration is required.

Preferred Skills/Experience:
Previous Charge Experience: Preferred
Teaching hospital experience is preferred.
Community hospital experience is preferred.

Special Requests:
You must be able to complete labs within 48 hours of signing.

Unit Details:
The patient population is neonatal.
Work includes attending vaginal and cesarean deliveries and assisting with newborn transition.
Work includes admitting neonates to NICU and newborns to NOU, discharging NICU and NOU newborns home, coordinating care with NNPs, physicians, RNs, social services, respiratory therapy, radiology, occupational therapy, and other patient-care team members, educating and updating parents, and assisting new mothers with breastfeeding.
Procedures include assisting with chest tube insertion, PICC, UAC and UVC placement, x-rays, CBGs and ABGs, ultrasounds, echocardiograms, EEGs, intubation, oxygen administration, nitric oxide administration, and exchange transfusions.
Equipment includes cardiac/respiratory monitors, pulse oximeters, ventilators, HFNC, CPAP, radiant heat warmers, isolettes, bili-meters, phototherapy equipment, and IV pumps.
NICU patient ratios are 1:1, 1:2, and 1:3.
GE-CPN is used for documentation in NOU.

Shift & Scheduling:
You must be willing to work weekends and generally just be very flexible.
Self-scheduling is available.
Every other weekend is required.
Holiday requirement: at least 1 major and 1 minor holiday; scheduling lists 2 major and 1 minor holiday per year for full-time positions and 1 major and 1 minor holiday per year for PRN positions.

Floating Requirements:
You must be willing to float.
May float to NOU with 1:4-6 ratios and will be expected to float to the normal newborn nursery.
NICU and NOU nurses may be asked to task in other departments, with priority for the third floor.

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