Job Title: Registered Nurse, Pediatric Emergency Room
Profession: RN
Specialty: ER PEDS
Duration: 13 Weeks
Shift: Night
Hours per Shift: 12
Experience: 2 Years
License: RN (Compact Accepted)
Certifications: PALS; BLS; CERT-Crisis Prevention Intervention
Must-Have:
- Pediatric ER Experience: 2 Years
- CPI Blue Card
- Triage Experience
- TNCC, ACLS
Description:
All clinicians must have a current flu vaccine.
Clinicians without a flu vaccination during flu season are not accepted.
No exceptions will be made.
The position involves providing care in a busy emergency department setting.
Common diagnoses include asthma, DKA, neonate with fever, and Sickle Cell Disease.
The unit has 31 to 40 beds/rooms/bays.
The nurse to patient ratio is 1:4.
Special procedures include moderate sedation, breathing treatments, chest tube setup/care, CPAP/BiPap, home vents, high-frequency vents, procedure sedation, and rapid sequence intubation.
Candidates will be responsible for administering blood and blood products, cardioversion/defibrillation, and CVP monitoring.
There is a need for 12-lead EKG interpretation and rapid transfusions.
The unit utilizes ancillary staff including techs and LPNs/LVNs.
Critical care areas include burns, cardiac, medical, neuro, PICU, surgical, transplant, and trauma.
Relevant medical-surgical areas include general, hematology/oncology, and ortho.
Dress code is scrubs.