Registered Nurse II - Pediatric Meducare

Job Description Summary

Job Summary:

Provide total clinical nursing care for critically ill children during transportation. Communicating and coordinating care with multidisciplinary team members from sending and receiving facilities. Under general supervision, the Registered Nurse II provides individualized, goal-directed patient care to families and patients at a competent level utilizing the principles and practices of the nursing process; delivers safe and effective care and interacts with other members of the health care team to achieve desired results.

Medical University Hospital Authority (MUHA)

Employee

Regular

CC000516 CHS - Meducare Flight Activities Fund (SJCH)

Hourly

Health-28

36

Rotating (United States of America)

Scheduled Work Hours/Shift: Rotating 12 or 24 hour shifts, 2-3 days per week, including nights and weekends.

Job Purpose:

Provides professional nursing care for patients in the clinical setting. Provides leadership to nursing staff members and collaborates with other members of the health care team to assure quality care for the patients. Promotes, plans, directs, and implements medical management and safe transportation for critically ill/injured infant or child, in consultation with the attending physician. Maintains standards of professional nursing practice.

Assesses, plans, implements and evaluates delivery of nursing care in accordance with the medical plan of care, nursing practice standards, nursing care standards, and policy and procedures to achieve optimum patient outcomes for patients of all ages. Collaborates with other transport team members to ensure the safety of all transport operations. Provides rapid assessment, emergency measures and transportation for the critically ill/injured , neonate, infant or child, utilizing the latest technique and state-of-the-art equipment.

Acquires and maintains advanced neonatal skills such as intubation, ventilation, insertion of UAC/UVC’s, and chest needle aspirations. Maintains all required certifications, licenses, and continuing education. Organizes, prioritizes, directs, supervises and evaluates nursing care delivered by various levels of staff both in hospital and on transport. Participates in providing outreach education. Maintains pediatric transport quality data. Functions as patient advocate, protector of patient rights and provider of psychosocial support.

Frequent direct contact and communication within and outside the MUSC with patients, families, physicians, nurses, EMS personnel, aviation personnel, administrators, and the public. Some communication and coordination with community agencies. Transport work is performed under high tension and sometimes adverse conditions due to the critical nature and location of the patients. Moderate physical effort is required for frequent moving and lifting of transport equipment.

Requires substantial walking and standing. Frequently uses mechanical devices. High risk of danger involved in working in and around an aircraft and on an ambulance. Physical requirements include weight restrictions, good general health, and high tolerance to stress.

Graduation from an accredited school of nursing and a minimum of 5 years of pediatric critical experience in NICU, PICU, PCICU or equivalent. Bachelor of Nursing degree preferred. RN staff hired on or after July 1, 2013, with an Associate or Diploma degree in nursing are required to be enrolled in an accredited BSN program within two years and successfully obtain a BSN degree within four years of the RN hire or reclassification date.

Refer to policy A141 for more details.

Licensure as a registered nurse by the South Carolina Board of Nursing or a compact state. Current Basic Life Support (BLS) required.

If selected, candidate must maintain current BLS, ACLS, PALS, NRP and complete an advanced trauma course (ex: PATC or TNCC) within 1 year of orientation.