RN - PICU/Peds

• General job duties. Types of procedures required. Care for peds patient between the age of 3 days to 18 years of age.
  
  

This would include common childhood illness, including COVID patients. The nurse will need to have a high knowledge base for pediatric patient at all levels of care. (PICU and Peds) PICU - respiratory, traumas, donations, seizures, and poisoning, anything highly specialized or cardiac sent out, no burns. Peds - trauma, respiratory, RSV, general surgical, birth defects, send out more complex surgicals.

• Equipment utilized in the unit/dept. (Is there computerized charting, medication systems, etc.)
  
  

EPIC, Pyxis

• Required skills and minimum years of experience.
  
  

2 years Peds AND PICU minimum experience required, IV skills a plus. EPIC experience is required. Experience in 400 bed facility with similar acquity (L2 trauma) required.

• Specific licensures and certifications/registrations required. (ARRT, CRT, BLS, ACLS, etc)
  
  

BLS thru AHA required, PALS required, compact or IN RN license

• Shift or schedule requirements. (Will the employee ever work alone? Is call required? If so, how often? Are weekends required?)
  
  

3 - 12 hour shifts per week. OT options may be available.

• Floating to other units/departments. (If so, to which units/departments?)
  
  

Will float to areas like NICU.

• Bed size/number of rooms for this unit/dept.
  
  

Peds - 28 beds, PICU - 7 beds

• Nurse to patient ratio of this unit. (nursing only)
  
  

1:4 patients Peds, 1:2 PICU

• Dress Code:
  
  

Caribbean blue scrubs

• Tell us about the unit/department specific training and orientation program.
  
  

Orientation will be as any other traveler, then 24 hours on the floor with a preceptor.