Travel Nurse RN - PICU - Pediatric Intensive Care - $2,444 per week
Company: UnityPoint - Blank Children's Hospital
Location: Des Moines
Posted on: October 23, 2024
Job Description:
- Certification Details
- PALS (AHA) required
- Job Details
- Travelers must be COVID vaccinated; Medical/Religious
Exemptions provided upon request
- Any candidates submitted with a taxable home address within 60
miles of the facility location will be billed at a rate 10%
less.
- As a member of the interdisciplinary team, contributes
professional nursing knowledge and skills in the provision and
management of care to patients through the application of the
nursing process.
- EMR - EPIC
- OT/Holiday Multiplier: 1.25x
- MAY FLOAT TO NICU - MUST BE WILLING TO FLOAT
- The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit features a 12-bed, all
private-room facility that is staffed by pediatric critical care
doctors. It is located on the second floor of the north wing on the
Iowa Methodist Medical Center/Blank Children's Hospital
campus.
- The intensive care team helps care for critically-ill or
injured infants, children and teens.
- The Pediatric Transport Team provides children throughout the
state access to a higher level of care.
- The Transport Team brings critical care expertise to children
by a pediatric nurse who is under the medical direction of a
pediatric critical care or pediatric emergency medicine physician.
- Job Requirements
- 2+ years of current PICU experience
- Critical Care experience strongly encouraged
- must be willing to float to NICU when needed
- PALS (AHA) required
- Client prefers that the Clinicians do not take more than 7 days
off in a 13 week contract.
- 1+ year of travel, OR, multiple travel contracts completed -
required
- Schedule Information
- NBO: 8 hrs
- Unit Specific Information
- In March 2017, we opened a new Pediatric Intensive Care
Unit.
- In order to enhance the care we provide, the new PICU includes:
12 single patient rooms with storage and space, including a private
bathroom and shower.
- Family Consultation Room where the health care team can meet
with families to discuss their child's plan of care.
- Family Lounge with a kitchenette and comfortable seating for
family members to spend time outside of their child's room.
- State-of-the-art design with equipment easily accessible from a
ceiling boom and features that allow staff to monitor patients
efficiently and act quickly as needed.
- Patient and family-centered environment with a pull-out bed and
reclining chair for families, privacy curtain, two televisions and
an individual sound system.
- Additional Details
- Work history/resume
- Skills checklist (must have been completed within 1 year of
submission date)
- License verification
- Copy of BLS (AHA) or ARC
- References - highly preferred (if not provided, will be
required to complete during onboarding if candidate accepts an
offer)
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