Required Skills/Experience:
Full-time Level III NICU experience is required. Floating experience is not acceptable to fulfill this requirement.
Strong experience required with high-frequency vents, conventional ventilators, iNO, trachs, 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, LP, PICC placement/dressing changes, umbilical line placement, and chest tube placement.

Preferred Skills/Experience:
Level IV NICU experience is highly 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 candidates may submit with it pending. Cost: $200.

Special Requests:
Assignment length may vary: 13 or 26 weeks.
Time off around Christmas cannot be approved.
Time off cannot be approved during the first two weeks of assignment.
Travelers are not eligible to return after reaching 365 total assignment days, regardless of time away.

Unit Details:
Neonate and infant patient population.
Patient population includes extreme prematurity (22 weeks and above), IUGR, RDS, BPD, TTN, PPHN, pneumonia, NEC, sepsis, cardiac anomalies, neurologic/endocrine/renal/gastrointestinal/skeletal/genetic anomalies, ROP, NAS, hypoglycemia, jaundice, and FTT.
Admits all infant cardiac patients; patients go to PICU after open chest surgery.
Patient ratios are 1:1 or 1:2 for ICU and 1:3 for stepdown.

Shift & Scheduling:
Flexible contract hours: 36 or 48 per week.
3 weekends of the 6 week scheduling period.
Must work 2 out of the 3 winter holidays.
Maximum 40 hours of time off may be approved.

Floating Requirements:
Required to float to Catch & Transition Newborns in L&D, Newborn Care in MB/PP, Infant Care under 1 year old in Peds, and Infant Care under 1 year old in PICU.

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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