Required Skills/Experience:
Must have PICU and NICU experience and be comfortable with pediatrics, Acute Pediatrics, and the Pediatric ED.
2 years of PICU experience required.
Teaching hospital experience is required.

Preferred Skills/Experience:
Pediatric PACU experience is highly preferred.
Previous NICU/PICU float-pool experience may be considered.
Level III NICU experience is preferred.
Previous Charge Experience: Preferred.
Community hospital experience is preferred.

Required Credentials:
Dr. Brown's Infant-Driven Feeding Certificate is required; it may be pending at submission and costs $200.
Any hit on your license must be disclosed. Hits will be sent to UVA leadership for approval prior to proceeding.

Special Requests:
40 hours of time off can be approved; no RTO can be approved during the first 2 weeks of assignment.
Travelers are not eligible to return after reaching 365 total assignment days, regardless of time away.

Shift & Scheduling:
Flexible contract hours: 36 or 48 per week.
Every other weekend.
Every other holiday.
Must work 2 out of the 3 winter holidays.

Floating Requirements:
Float pool coverage includes PICU, NICU, pediatric med-surg, pediatric PACU, pediatric ED boarders, Acute Pediatrics, and postpartum/Mother-Baby.
During staffing crises, the assignment may also float to L&D and Mother/Baby.

Unit Details:
Patient population includes neonates, infants, children, adolescents, and adults.
The NICU provides intensive and intermediate care, including care for infants with extreme prematurity, congenital defects, surgical needs, respiratory distress, and neurological disorders; nurses attend high-risk deliveries and provide neonatal resuscitation.
NICU monitoring and support includes respiratory, hemodynamic, and thermoregulation support, with advanced therapies including extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and hypothermia treatment.
Acute Pediatrics cares for cardiology, surgery, general pediatric medicine, and hematology-oncology patients and includes intermediate/stepdown and epilepsy-monitoring areas.
The PICU cares for cardiac and medical illnesses in patients from newborns through 18 years old, including congenital cardiac defects, respiratory disease, trauma, 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).
The Pediatric ED cares for patients ages 0-21 years, with cases prioritized according to emergency acuity.
Patient ratios vary by area and acuity: NICU ratios are typically 1:2 in ICU and 1:3 in ICN; Acute Pediatrics ratios are 1:3 in intermediate care and 1:4-5 in acute care; PICU ratios are typically 1:1 or 1:2; Pediatric ED ratios vary based on the level of care required.

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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