Registered Nurse-Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Job Type

Full-time

Description

Platinum Business Corporation is currently seeking a full-time Registered Nurse-Pediatric Intensive Care Unit to support Tripler Army Medical Center, Hawaii.

Platinum Business Corporation provides experienced, committed health care personnel and related services to the federal government and private industry. Founded in February 2006, PBC is a nationwide healthcare staffing and services firm headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, with satellite offices in San Antonio, Texas, and active project locations across the country. PBC is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, including individuals with disabilities and veterans. For more information, please visit their website at: Platinum Business Corporation.

W-2 Option

• Medical/Dental/Vision Coverage
• Long/Short Term Disability/Life Insurance
• Paid Federal Holidays, Paid Sick, and Paid Vacation time
• License/Certification Reimbursement
• 401K

Work Schedule:

Services May Include 8, 10, and 12-Hour Shifts-7 Days per week, including weekends and federal holidays. All shifts include a 30-minute meal break (non-paid) and two 15-minute breaks (paid)

PICU: The duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Knowledge of interpersonal relationships and the ability to maintain composure and react appropriately while relating to patients and families; to manage distraught, irritable, unreasonable, or angry individuals, and to maintain a positive rapport with all individuals involved in patient care.
• Ability to react with alertness and skill in any emergency, e.g., cardiac or respiratory arrest, hemorrhage, shock, severe physical trauma, and psychiatric reaction.
• Serves as a member of the resuscitation team.
• Assess patients' conditions for potential or life-threatening crises. Distinguish between normal and abnormal physical findings (from physical assessment and vital sign assessment).
• Plan appropriate nursing care.
• Obtain patient history and pertinent family history.
• Document plan of care and care given in the patient's medical record.
• Able to perform advanced cardiopulmonary resuscitation, mixing and administering special, potent and potentially lethal drugs (i.e., Atropine, dopamine, dobutamine) based on weight.
• Perform various pulmonary ventilation treatments such as administration of oxygen through various invasive and noninvasive means.
• Assist the physician with complex and potentially life-threatening procedures as cardioversion, insertion of central lines and intubation.
• Operate and monitor highly complex technical equipment such as hemodynamic monitoring devices, ventilators, oxygen monitors etc.
• Provide patient and family teaching and counseling to possible reactions to medications, health maintenance, and illness prevention.
• Manage nursing care of the patient on multiple medications and technical equipment, complete thorough assessments and determine abnormalities, make decisions, and take corrective action immediately.
• Possesses the knowledge of a wide range of nursing care principles, practices, and procedures required to perform highly specialized nursing assignments to assess the needs of the critically ill infant, child, adolescent and teenage patient.
• May be required to work in the Pediatric Ward, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, or Mother Baby

Requirements

• Degree: Associate's Degree in Nursing.
• Experience: Minimum one year of experience within the last five years in a PICU or critical care area for pediatric patients as a Registered Nurse.
• Licensure: Must possess a current, unencumbered RN license from any state or territory of the United States.
• Life Support: Must possess and maintain current course completion with hands-on training through an American Heart Association-approved training program; for Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support, and Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP)