10 Virginia Critical Care (CCU) Jobs
Contract Details
Travel Pay Breakdown
Benefits
Additional Information
Required Skills/Experience
PACU, PICU, and NICU experience required.
2 years PICU experience required.
Must have a minimum of PICU experience and be comfortable with NICU, Acute Pediatrics, and the Pediatric ED.
Can consider clinicians with previous NICU/PICU float pool experience.
Teaching hospital experience is required.
Preferred Skills/Experience
Pediatric PACU experience highly preferred.
Level III NICU experience preferred.
Previous Charge Experience: Preferred.
Community hospital experience is preferred.
Required Credentials
Any hits 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 required; cost is $185.
Special Requests
Travelers are not eligible to return after reaching 365 total assignment days, regardless of time away.
No RTO can be approved in the first 2 weeks of assignment.
Unit Details
Neonate, infant, pediatric, adolescent, and adult patient population.
NICU care includes high-risk deliveries, neonatal resuscitation, extreme prematurity, congenital defects, surgical needs, respiratory distress, neurological disorders, ECMO, hypothermia treatment, and respiratory, hemodynamic, and thermoregulation support.
Acute Pediatrics includes cardiology, surgery, general pediatric medicine, hematology-oncology, intermediate stepdown, and epilepsy monitoring.
PICU cares for newborn to 18-year-old patients with cardiac and medical illnesses, congenital cardiac defects, respiratory disease, trauma injuries, transplants, and neurosurgical, orthopedic, and general surgical interventions; patients may require vasoactive infusions, mechanical ventilation, intracranial and hemodynamic monitoring, ECMO, and VAD support.
Pediatric ED cares for patients ages 0-21.
Ratios: NICU 1:2 in ICU and 1:3 in ICN; Acute Pediatrics 1:3 in intermediate care and 1:4-5 in acute care; PICU 1-2 patients depending on severity; Peds ED varies by required level of care.
Shift & Scheduling
Flexible contract hours: 36 or 48 per week.
Every other weekend. Every other holiday.
Maximum RTO: 40 hours per 13-week assignment.
Floating Requirements
Float to various pediatric units including PICU, NICU, Peds Med Surg/Acute Pediatrics, Peds PACU, and Peds ED boarders/Peds ER; may also float to postpartum/Mother-Baby and, on occasion, L&D during staffing crisis.
Must adhere to UVA's float policy.
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.
Pre-employment modules may be required for this role. Please upload any certifications or health documents you have to your profile to expedite your on-boarding process.
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