PICU RN

About the role

The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Nemours Children’s Health, Delaware is a 24-bed unit in a Level 1 Trauma Center. This is a 36-hour per week, rotating shift position.

Patients in the PICU may have conditions including, but not limited to, 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 and interventions performed in the PICU include advanced life support technology 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 is equipped with electrocardiographic, pulse oximetry, respiratory, hemodynamic, and intracranial pressure monitoring capability, as well as central EKG and respiratory monitoring. Portable monitoring is available during patient transport. Special equipment includes radiant warmer beds, heating/cooling blanket systems, Mapleson manual ventilation systems, end tidal CO₂ monitors, ventilators, hemodynamic monitoring systems, intracranial pressure monitoring systems, ventriculostomy systems, infusion pumps, blood warmers, continuous renal replacement systems, and peripheral nerve stimulators.

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing; BSN preferred
• At least 2 years of experience as a pediatric intensive care nurse preferred
• Current Delaware or Multistate Compact License
• CPR certified by the American Heart Association
• PALS and ACLS preferred
• CCRN certification preferred

About Us

Nemours Children’s Health is an internationally recognized pediatric health system serving more than 1.7 million patient encounters each year. We deliver care across six states through two freestanding children’s hospitals — Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida — along with a network of more than 80 primary, urgent, and specialty care practices and over 40 hospital partnerships.

Backed by the Nemours Foundation and Alfred I. duPont Trust, our $1.7B nonprofit system is dedicated to improving children’s health through clinical care, research, education, advocacy, and prevention. Our Whole Child Health approach focuses equally on prevention and treatment, partnering with communities to help every child thrive. We are committed to culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and fostering an environment where every associate, patient, and family feels supported and valued.

Schedule

36 hours per week, rotating shifts