Registered Nurse - PICU

Nemours Children's Health; Wilmington (DE); Vor Ort; USD 90.000 - 110.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Nemours Children's Health, Delaware, is seeking a Registered Nurse to join the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in Wilmington, DE. This is a full-time, dayshift position in a 24-bed Level 1 Trauma Center, dedicated to delivering high-acuity pediatric care.

Responsibilities include monitoring and supporting critically ill patients using advanced life support equipment, coordinating with a multi-disciplinary team, and ensuring patient safety and family communication.

Qualifikationen

• 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.

Kenntnisse

PICU experience

CPR certified (AHA)

PALS ACLS preferred

Team-oriented

Ausbildung

BSN preferred

Delaware license or Multistate Compact

Jobbeschreibung

The PICU is seeking a Registered Nurse to join our team in Wilmington, DE. This is a full-time, dayshift position.

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