Children's Critical Care Transport RN - NICU - Full Time

About the Role

To provide optimum critical/emergency care to sick or injured infants and children transported by aircraft or ground ambulance to UMMC or other designated facilities.

Responsibilities

• Evaluates, plans, administers, and documents nursing care for patients during transport.
• Provides physical and psychological comfort to patients.
• Monitors patient condition during transport and adverse reactions to drugs or treatment.
• Guides assisting personnel in the provision of patient care.
• Ensures equipment and supplies are available and functional; reports any equipment failures.
• Promotes a positive image of UMMC by participating in community outreach programs.
• Ensures regulatory compliance of patient care provided during transport.
• Prepares and maintains applicable reports and documentation.
• Participates in disaster preparedness and operational support, including EMS unit operations and supporting UMMC’s role in the State Medical Response System.

The duties listed are general in nature and are examples of the duties and responsibilities performed. Management retains the right to add or change duties at any time.

Requirements

• Associate's degree or diploma in Nursing.
• Three (3) years of neonatal, pediatric intensive care, or pediatric emergency experience.
• Valid RN license.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
• Either Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) or Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) certification.
• Weight may not exceed 225 pounds when fully clothed.
• Must be able to lift a patient weighing 250 pounds onto a stretcher or an infant in an incubator, carry a minimum of fifty (50) feet, and load into an aircraft or ground ambulance (with the help of another provider).

Skills

• Knowledge of techniques needed to assess and treat injuries and diseases for pediatric and neonatal patients.
• Knowledge of agents, equipment, procedures, and techniques for emergency and critical care nursing during interfacility and scene transports.
• Verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to remain calm in emergency conditions.
• Ability to provide physical and psychological treatment and comfort to patients.
• Ability to withstand exposure to noise, external weather conditions, and work in high altitudes.
• Ability to maintain and comply with weight and lifting restrictions and requirements.

Physical and Environmental Demands

• Constant exposure to unpleasant or disagreeable physical environment such as high noise levels and exposure to heat and cold.
• Constant handling or working with potentially dangerous equipment.
• Constant exposure to biohazardous conditions, including risk of radiation exposure, bloodborne pathogens, fumes, or airborne particles, and/or toxic or caustic chemicals.
• Frequent working hours significantly beyond regularly scheduled hours.
• Constant traveling to offsite locations.
• Constant activities subject to significant volume changes of a seasonal/clinical nature.
• Constant work produced subject to precise measures of quantity and quality.
• Frequent bending, lifting, and carrying more than 100 pounds.
• Occasional climbing.
• Frequent crouching/stooping, driving, kneeling, pushing/pulling, reaching, sitting, standing, twisting, and walking.

(Occasional: up to 20%, Frequent: from 21% to 50%, Constant: 51% or more)

Schedule

• Full Time
• Work hours may significantly exceed regularly scheduled hours.

Benefits

Benefits eligibility applies (not grant funded).