PICU RN (DAYSHIFT)

The Nemours Foundation; Wilmington (DE); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Nemours Children's Health in Wilmington, Delaware, seeks a Registered Nurse to join the 24-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in our Level 1 Trauma Center.

The unit provides advanced life support and continuous monitoring for critically ill children, with equipment and capability for ECMO, mechanical ventilation, and more. BSN preferred; Delaware license; CPR; PALS/ACLS preferred; CCRN preferred.

Qualifications

• Be a graduate of an accredited school of nursing; BSN preferred.
• Experienced pediatric intensive care nurse of at least 2 years preferred.
• Current Delaware or Multistate Compact License.
• Must be CPR certified by the American Heart Association. PALS and ACLS preferred.
• Certifications: CCRN preferred.

Skills

PICU experience

RN with pediatric critical care

CPR certified

CCRN preferred

PALS preferred

Education

RN license: Delaware or Compact

BSN preferred

Tools

EMR / Electronic Medical Records

Job description

The PICU is seeking aRegistered Nurse to join our team in Wilmington, DE.

The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of Nemours Children's Health, Delaware is a 24-bed unit in a Level 1 Trauma Center. Patients requiring care and surveillance in the PICU will have conditions and diagnoses which may include, but are not limited to, those producing: acute and reversible loss of consciousness, respiratory failure, compromised air exchange, cardiovascular dysfunction, hepatic failure, hemodynamic instability, renal dysfunction, central nervous system injury or dysfunction, acute trauma and organ failure requiring transplantation.

Treatments or interventions performed in the PICU include measures utilizing advanced life support technology. These include, but are not limited to cardiopulmonary resuscitation, tracheal intubation, ECMO, pharmacologic support of circulation, mechanical ventilation, point of care monitoring, CRRT, thoracentesis, and hemodynamic, intracranial pressure, intravascular monitoring.

Each patient room has electrocardiographic, pulse oximetry, respiratory, hemodynamic and intracranial pressure monitoring capability, as well as central EKG and respiratory monitoring. Portable monitoring during patient transport is provided.

Special equipment includes radiant warmer beds, heating/cooling blanket systems, Mapleson manual ventilation system, end tidal CO2 monitors, ventilators, hemodynamic monitoring systems, intracranial pressure monitoring system, ventriculostomy systems, infusion pumps, blood warmer, continuous renal replacement systems, and peripheral nerve stimulators.

REQUIREMENTS

• Be a graduate of an accredited school of nursing; BSN preferred.
• Experienced pediatric intensive care nurse of at least 2 years preferred.
• Current Delaware or Multistate Compact License
• Must be CPR certified by the American Heart Association. PALS and ACLS preferred.
• Certifications: CCRN preferred