Pediatric Critical Care Transport Nurse

Job ID: 105029

About the Role

The St. Louis Children's Hospital critical care transport team offers the most comprehensive and experienced pediatric, maternal-fetal and newborn transport service in the Midwest.

This is a full-time position with 36 hours per week, including 12 and 24-hour shifts, on-call duties, and weekend/holiday rotation as required by the department. Positions are available in St. Louis, MO and Cahokia, IL locations. This role is benefit eligible.

The BJC Registered Nurse Career Ladder differentiates BJC as the place for nurses to work in the greater St. Louis area. This tool empowers nurses to work at the top of their license and own their career progression. The BJC RN Career Ladder promotes professional development, leadership, collaboration, education, and service excellence, offering opportunities to advance to higher ladder levels with corresponding pay increases.

Responsibilities

• Provides direct patient care activities including assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation within the guidelines of the standards of nursing care.
• Promotes patient and family-centered care in a healing environment.
• Educates patients and their families on managing illness or injury, including post-treatment home care needs and medication administration.
• Participates in activities that promote patient safety, quality, and regulatory compliance.

Requirements

• Active RN license.
• 5 years of RN experience in pediatric transport, pediatric ICU, pediatric ER, pediatric CICU, or neonatal ICU strongly preferred.

About the Organization

St. Louis Children’s Hospital is dedicated to improving the health and lives of children. As one of the top-ranked children’s hospitals in the country, St. Louis Children’s provides care in more than 50 specialty areas through a dedicated team of physicians, nurses, staff, and volunteers. Along with inpatient and outpatient medical care, the hospital offers education, wellness, and injury-prevention programs to fulfill its mission to "do what’s right for kids."

Serving patients and families across a 300-mile service area, the hospital has seen patients from all 50 states and more than 80 countries. St. Louis Children’s consistently ranks among America’s Best Children’s Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report in all surveyed categories. In 2021, St. Louis Children’s was one of eight children’s hospitals to rank in the top 25 of all 10 specialties.

The hospital’s academic and physician partner, Washington University School of Medicine, is one of the top-ranked medical schools in the United States. Since 2005, St. Louis Children’s has been designated as a Magnet® hospital for nursing excellence by the American Nurses Credentialing Center® (ANCC).