Staff Nurse NICU

Children's of Alabama; Birmingham (AL); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 78,000; Full time

Job summary

Children's of Alabama is seeking an experienced staff nurse for the Critical Care NICU. You will provide professional nursing care to neonates and infants, performing assessments, interventions, and reassessments with minimal supervision.

The NICU is a Level IV, 48-bed unit including ECMO capabilities, established to care for complex cases from birth to age 2. Schedule is 7p-7a, 12-hour shifts, with a strong multidisciplinary team approach.

Qualifications

• Current RN license in the State of Alabama.
• Current BLS certification.
• Graduate of an accredited nursing program.

Responsibilities

• Assess, intervene, reassess patients and provide nursing care.
• Plan, implement, educate and evaluate care for patients/caregivers.
• Use medical equipment, access patient records and reports, and document care.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary team to support ECMO-capable NICU patients.

Skills

Medical equipment

Patient records

Computer literacy

Education

Associate of Science Nursing

Graduate of an accredited school of nursing

Job description

In Critical Care NICU at Main Campus Quarterback Tower

Work schedule will be Full-time on the Evening Night Shift, 7p-7a.

Summary:
The staff nurse is a professional nurse who, with minimal supervision, is responsible for providing nursing care to patients. Patient care includes assessment, interventions, and reassessments of the patient. The nurse is also responsible for planning, implementing, educating, and evaluating care of patients/caregivers.

• Must be able to use medical equipment, patient records, reports, and computer.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing

Licensures, Certifications, and/or Registries

• Current RN license in the State of Alabama
• Current BLS certification

Credentials with Equivalent Qualifications

• Registered Nurse AL Single State or any of the following equivalent qualifications below:
  • Registered Nurse AL NLC Multi State
  • Registered Nurse Non-AL NLC Multi State
• Basic Life Support

Education with Equivalent Qualifications

• Associate of Science Nursing in Nursing

The NICU is a Level IV 48-bed unit that cares for acute and chronic patients from birth to 2 years of age. We are the only ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) center in the state of Alabama. We house 4 ECMO surgical suites and have been awarded a Center for Excellence for multiple years in a row. We also care for infants on continuous dialysis therapy -Aquadex- the only hospital in the Southeast to offer this program as well as 1 of only 3 in the country. All rooms are private allowing parents to stay overnight if desired. Our patients are referred in from other hospitals for subspecialty care, with diagnoses that include respiratory illnesses, abdominal wall defects, neural tube defects, renal tube defects, congenital anomalies and many other illnesses. These infants frequently require management of mechanical ventilation, multiple intravenous fluid and drug administration, monitoring of cardiovascular status and support of family. All RN staff are skilled and trained to assess and care for infants with complex, multisystem dysfunctions. The nurse to patient ratio is usually 2:1, although occasionally depending on the acuity of the patient the ratio may be 1:1. The team uses a multidisciplinary approach in caring for infants involving nursing, physicians, respiratory, nutritionist, pharmacy, physical and occupational therapy, lactation specialist, child life, social workers and pastoral care.

Getting to Know Children's: The NICU

Schedule: 7p-7a, Evening-Night Shift, 12-Hour Shifts