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:
Pediatric PACU experience is highly preferred.
Level III NICU experience is 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 certificate costs $185.

Special Requests:
Travelers are not eligible to return after reaching 365 total assignment days, regardless of time away.
Assignment lengths available are 13 weeks, 26 weeks, or 52 weeks.
Up to 40 hours of time off may be approved; no RTO may be approved during the first 2 weeks of the assignment.

Unit Details:
Patient population includes neonates, infants, pediatric patients, adolescents, and adults.
The NICU includes intensive and intermediate care for infants, including high-risk deliveries, extreme prematurity, congenital defects, surgical needs, respiratory distress, and neurological disorders.
NICU nurses provide neonatal resuscitation and care involving respiratory, hemodynamic, and thermoregulation monitoring and support, as well as ECMO and hypothermia treatment.
PICU care includes cardiac and medical illnesses in patients from newborn through 18 years, including congenital cardiac defects, respiratory disease, trauma injuries, transplantation, neurosurgical, orthopedic, and general surgical cases.
PICU patients may require vasoactive infusions, mechanical ventilation, intracranial and hemodynamic monitoring, ECMO, and ventricular assist devices (VADs).
Acute Pediatrics primarily admits cardiology, surgery, general pediatric medicine, and hematology/oncology patients.
Acute Pediatrics includes an intermediate stepdown area and an epilepsy monitoring area.
Pediatric ED patients range from 0 to 21 years, and cases are prioritized according to emergency acuity.
Typical nurse-to-patient ratios are 1:2 in PICU, 1:2 or 1:3 in NICU/ICN, 1:3 in the Acute Pediatrics intermediate area, and 1:4 or possibly 1:5 in Acute Pediatrics; Pediatric ED ratios vary according to the level of care required.
PICU nurses usually care for one or two patients depending on illness severity.

Shift & Scheduling:
Flexible contract hours: 36 or 48 per week.
Every other weekend and every other holiday.

Floating Requirements:
Floats to various pediatric units, including PICU, NICU, pediatric med-surg, pediatric PACU, pediatric ED boarders, and postpartum/mother-baby.
May be required to float to L&D and Mother/Baby during staffing crises in those areas.

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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