Job description

The PICU has Day shift and Night shift availability for Full-time positions in the Weekend Incentive Program. Scheduling includes 5 of 6 weekends with every third holiday rotations.

$10,000.00 sign on bonus!**

**Requirements for sign on bonus: 2 yrs ICU experience, night shift commitment, and BSN required

The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of the A.I. duPont Hospital for Children is a 24-bed unit in a Level 1 Trauma Center. . Patients requiring care and surveillance in the PICU will have conditions and diagnoses which may include, but are not limited to, those producing: acute and reversible loss of consciousness, respiratory failure, compromised air exchange, cardiovascular dysfunction, hepatic failure, hemodynamic instability, renal dysfunction, central nervous system injury or dysfunction, acute trauma and organ failure requiring transplantation.

Treatments or interventions performed in the PICU include measures utilizing advanced life support technology. These include, but are not limited to cardiopulmonary resuscitation, tracheal intubation, ECMO, pharmacologic support of circulation, mechanical ventilation, point of care monitoring, CRRT, thoracentesis, and hemodynamic, intracranial pressure, intravascular monitoring.

Each patient room has electrocardiographic, pulse oximetry, respiratory, hemodynamic and intracranial pressure monitoring capability, as well as central EKG and respiratory monitoring. Portable monitoring during patient transport is provided.

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.

REQUIREMENTS

Be a graduate of an accredited school of nursing; BSN preferred

Experienced pediatric intensive care nurse of at least 2 years preferred

Have a current registration or be for eligible Delaware State Board of Nursing Licensure.
Must be CPR certified by the American Heart Association. PALS preferred.

Certifications: CCRN preferred

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