PICU RN

Overview

The PICU is seeking a Registered Nurse to join our team in Wilmington, DE. This is a 36-hrs/wk night shift position.

The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of Nemours Children's Health, Delaware is a 24-bed unit in a Level 1 Trauma Center. Patients requiring care and surveillance in the PICU may have conditions and diagnoses including acute and reversible loss of consciousness, respiratory failure, compromised air exchange, cardiovascular dysfunction, hepatic failure, hemodynamic instability, renal dysfunction, CNS injury or dysfunction, acute trauma and organ failure requiring transplantation.

Treatments or interventions in the PICU include advanced life support measures such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, tracheal intubation, ECMO, pharmacologic support of circulation, mechanical ventilation, point-of-care monitoring, CRRT, thoracentesis, and hemodynamic, intracranial pressure, and intravascular monitoring. Each patient room has monitoring capabilities (ECG, pulse oximetry, respiratory, hemodynamic and intracranial pressure) and portable monitoring during transport. Special equipment includes radiant warmer beds, heating/cooling blanket systems, Mapleson manual ventilation system, end-tidal CO2 monitors, ventilators, hemodynamic monitoring systems, intracranial pressure monitoring system, ventriculostomy systems, infusion pumps, blood warmer, continuous renal replacement systems, and peripheral nerve stimulators.

• Be a graduate of an accredited school of nursing; BSN preferred.
• Experienced pediatric intensive care nurse of at least 2 years preferred.
• Current Delaware or Multistate Compact License
• Must be CPR certified by the American Heart Association. PALS and ACLS preferred.
• Certifications:
  
  CCRN preferred