Nurse, RN, Pediatric Intensive Care, PICU, 7pm - 7am
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Description: Nemours is currently interviewing Nurse, RN, Pediatric Intensive Care, PICU, 7pm - 7am right now, this occupation will be delegated in Delaware. More details about this occupation opportunity kindly see the descriptions. Nemours is seeking a Registered Nurse PICU - 7pm-7am to join our team in Delaware.
As one of the nation's premier pediatric health care systems, Nemours provides world-class clinical care in four states â€" Delaware, Florida, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In Wilmington, Delaware, the Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children offers intensive and acute inpatient and outpatient services covering more than 30 pediatric specialties. Ranked among the nation's best in pediatric specialty care by U.S. News & World Report , we care for thousands of children in the Delaware Valley, across the country and around the world. Extending the world-class care of the duPont Hospital for Children, the Nemours Children's Clinic provides expert care for even more children across the Delaware Valley through community-based physician services and collaborative partnerships with health and hospital systems.
To meet the needs of even more children, the duPont Hospital for Children will be expanding our pediatric intensive care unit with state-of-the-art technology. In 2011, we will be breaking ground on a new inpatient pavilion that will include all private patient rooms, an expanded Emergency Department and patient family amenities.
This is a full time postion. It is 72 hours every two weeks (7pm-7am), every third weekend, every other holiday.
The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of the A.I. duPont Hospital for Children is a 22-bed unit. 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. 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, pharmacologic support of circulation, mechanical ventilation, sampling of arterial blood gases, thoracentesis, and hemodynamic, intracranial pressure, and 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.
Must be an experienced nurse. Be a graduate of an accredited school of nursing. Have previous experience in pediatric critical care experience nursing preferred. Have a current registration or be for eligible Delaware State Board of Nursing Licensure.
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This occupation starts available on: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 01:11:44 GMT
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