Staff Nurse PANDA Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Transport
About the role
Join our dedicated healthcare team where compassion meets innovation! As a Registered Nurse with us, you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact in patients' lives while enjoying a supportive work environment that fosters professional growth and work-life balance. Ready to be a vital part of our mission? Apply today and bring your passion for nursing to a place where it truly matters!
Children’s Hospital of Michigan is an international leader in pediatric and adolescent medicine. Surgical services include general, thoracic, reconstructive and cardiovascular. Imaging technology designed specifically for children provides advanced diagnostic services including Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and MRI. The Children’s Hospital of Michigan Emergency Department is a verified Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center and dedicated pediatric burn center. Experts in pediatric critical care, rehabilitation, and neonatal and perinatal medicine provide care for thousands of children every year at Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Children’s Hospital of Michigan - Troy and six ambulatory sites.
Responsibilities
Under the direction of Medical Directors and Patient Care Services Transport Manager, provides comprehensive, safe, and effective medical care to neonatal, pediatric, and adult patients transported by the CHM Critical Care Transport Team, PANDA One, via ground and air ambulance. Applies special techniques, precautions, and procedures in providing basic care and responding to life-threatening situations. Conducts a comprehensive initial and ongoing assessment of patient’s health status to determine patient’s physical and emotional status, initiating appropriate intervention as needed. Utilizing the nursing process, clinical judgment, and technical skills, performs routine as well as complex therapeutic and diagnostic procedures as directed by policies, treatment guidelines and medical control directive. Performs Procedures Unique To The Transport Function Including Oral Endotracheal Intubation; Maintain Oral / Nasal Endotracheal Tubes; LMA Insertion and Maintenance; Emergent Cricothyrotomy; Maintenance of Tracheostomy Tubes; Effective Ambubag Mask ventilation; Initiation and maintenance of mechanical ventilation – conventional and high frequency; Evaluation and administration of oxygen, nitric oxide and heliox; Conduct effective resuscitation as outlined by BLS, NRP, PALS, ACLS, and ABLS protocol; Establish venous access – Peripheral IV insertion, External Jugular Cannulation, Umbilical Vein catheterization, Intraosseous access; Interpret laboratory reports and radiographic studies; Needle decompression of Pneumothorax; Septic work-up; Defibrillation, cardi