Required Skills/Experience:
Must have PICU and NICU experience and be comfortable with pediatric patients, 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:
Dr. Brown's Infant-Driven Feeding Certificate is required; submission is permitted while it is pending, and it costs $200.
Any hit on your license must be disclosed. Hits will be sent to UVA leadership for approval prior to proceeding.

Special Requests:
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.

Unit Details:
Patient population includes neonates, infants, pediatric patients, adolescents, and adults.
NICU care includes intensive and intermediate (ICN) care, high-risk deliveries, neonatal resuscitation for infants with extreme prematurity and other birth complications, and patients with congenital defects, surgical needs, respiratory distress, and neurological disorders. The unit provides extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and hypothermia treatment, with respiratory, hemodynamic, and thermoregulation monitoring and support.
Acute pediatrics commonly cares for cardiology, surgery, general pediatric medicine, and hematology/oncology patients, including intermediate stepdown and epilepsy-monitoring patients.
PICU care includes cardiac and medical illnesses in patients from newborn to 18 years old, including congenital cardiac defects, respiratory disease, trauma, liver, heart, and kidney transplantation, neurosurgical, orthopedic, and general surgical cases. Common therapies and equipment include vasoactive infusions, mechanical ventilation, intracranial and hemodynamic monitoring, ECMO, and ventricular assist devices (VADs).
Pediatric ED care covers patients ages 0-21, with care varying according to the patient's level of acuity.
Patient ratios vary by unit and acuity: PICU is 1:2, NICU/ICN is 1:2 or 1:3, acute pediatrics is 1:3 in intermediate care and 1:4-5 in acute care, and pediatric ED ratios vary based on the level of care required.

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.
40 hours of time off can be approved.

Floating Requirements:
Floats to various pediatric units, including PICU, NICU, pediatric med-surg, acute pediatrics, pediatric PACU, pediatric ED boarders, and postpartum/mother-baby.
May be required to float to L&D and Mother/Baby if they are having a staffing crisis 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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