NICU RN Local or Travel Contract

The Registered Nurse – NICU cares for newborn babies who are delivered pre-term or at-term newborns who experience complications at the time of birth. The Registered Nurse – NICU provides intensive around-the-clock care, including both medical needs and basic daily care activities. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care of the neonatal patient and coordinates with healthcare team members
• Cares for infants transitioning to extrauterine life
• Provides age and culturally appropriate care to patient
• Provides nutritional assessment & specialized feedings
• Changes dressings, inserts catheters, starts IVs
• Provides arterial & intravenous therapy
• Monitors and adjusts specialized equipment used on patients, such as incubators and ventilators
• Assists NICU Physician during examination, treatment and procedures, which can include lifesaving measures
• Participates in discharge planning
• Assesses signs and symptoms indicating changes in patient’s condition, documents changes and informs physician/charge nurse
• Collects, analyzes, and interprets data and information from health care members and documents actual and/or potential nursing diagnoses
• Identifies and prioritizes actions based upon patient care requirements
• Performs interventions according to identified priorities, and the hospital policies and patient care outcome standard
• Provides a safe, comfortable and therapeutic patient/family environment
• Initiates and evaluates family education
• Documents and revises the plan of care according to evaluation, changes in medical plan of care, and effective/ineffective nursing interventions
• Participates in activities to facilitate good interpersonal communications with facility • Performs other duties as assigned/necessary

Minimum Requirements:

• Current Registered Nurse license for the state in which the nurse practices
• One year NICU experience required
• NRP card per contract requirement
• Complies with all relevant professional standards of practice 
• Participation and completion of Amergis’ Competency program when applicable
• Current CPR if applicable
• TB questionnaire, PPD or chest x-ray if applicable 
• Current Health certificate (per contract or state regulation) 
• Must meet all federal, state and local requirements 
• Successful completion of new hire training as applicable to job site 
• Understand patient confidentiality and HIPAA requirements  
• Ability to effectively elicit/provide information to and from appropriate individuals (including, but not limited to, supervisors, co-workers, clients) via strong communication skills; proficiency in the English language is required  
• Computer proficiency required 
• Must be at least 18 years of age