Register Nurse Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
Location: Tacoma, WA
Company: Decypher
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Join Decypher and make a direct impact on the health and readiness of America’s service members, veterans, and their families. Since 2008 Decypher has offered healthcare industry professionals careers where their expertise is valued, and their work makes a meaningful impact. Decypher partners with the Defense Health Agency to deliver professional services, technology, and management solutions. Our mission is to provide and support quality care for our veterans, servicemembers and their families, across the United States.
Job Summary: The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) Registered Nurse provides comprehensive, age-specific nursing care to critically ill neonatal patients while coordinating care with a multidisciplinary healthcare team. This role is responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating patient care to achieve optimal clinical outcomes, quality.
Required Qualifications:
- Education: Associate's in nursing from accredited school (ACEN or CCNE)
- Certifications:
- Basic Life Support (BLS)
- Neonatal Resuscitation Provider-Advanced (NRP)
- Sugar, Temperature, Airway, Blood pressure, Lab work, and Emotional support (STABLE)
- License: Current unrestricted RN license in one of the 50 US States and/or territories
- Experience: 1 year of nursing experience as an RN in NICU specialty/unit
U.S. Citizenship is required
Key Responsibilities:
- Coordinate patient care in collaboration with a wide array of healthcare professionals. Facilitate the achievement of optimal outcomes in relation to clinical care, quality, and cost effectiveness. Perform critical care duties to include assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating age-specific nursing care across all ages.
- Ensure compliance with standards of care and practice in accordance with all established policies, procedures, and guidelines used in the MTF. Perform physical exam and health histories.
- Provide health promotions, counseling, and education.
- Administer medications, wound care, and numerous other personalized interventions.
- Accountable for making patient care assignments based on the scope of practice and skill level of assigned personnel. Recognize adverse signs and symptoms and quickly react in emergency situations.
- Communicate and collaborate with a diverse group of people for the purpose of informing the healthcare team of plans/actions, for teaching/education to benefit the patient/family and organization.
- Make referral appointments and arrange specialty care as appropriate. Conduct research in support of improved practice and patient outcomes.
- Provide comprehensive professional neonatal care to critically ill neonatal patients in the NICU. The NICU RNs are responsible for infants throughout tour of duty and have extensive knowledge and experience and have the skill for concentrated effort and are self–motivating to carry out patient care requirements.
- Responsible for caring for infants with a variety of respiratory support devices such as oscillators, vents, iNO, CPAP, SIPAP, nasal cannula and trach tubes.
- Participate in the development and updating of patient care plan.
- Monitor IV fluids, blood and blood products, check rate, volume and insertion site. Perform neonatal catheter care. Change fluid containers and tubing. Recognize potential problems and take corrective action.
- Perform basic infant care procedures, lifting, turning, transporting, and positioning. Providing personal hygiene care, changes linens, clothing, and feeds infants to include NG/ OG, PO, G-tube feedings.
- Support, assist and instruct breast feeding Mothers to promote maximum nutritional needs based on Mothers’ desire to breast feed.
- Set up or assist in setting up and use specialized equipment such as ventilator support oxygen delivery systems, drainage suction devices, hypothermic units, and infusion pumps.
- Mix and administer prescribed medication orally, intramuscularly, subcutaneously, intravenously, topically, etc., and knows which drugs shall alter the effects of another drug if administered concurrently prior to the administration of medication.
- Serve as a resource person whom other critical care nurses and other health providers consult when particularly difficult problems in care of critically ill patients arise.
- Serves as a member of the Neonatal Resuscitation Team; attends high-risk deliveries and initiates neonatal resuscitative measures as directed.
Work Environment & Schedule: Sunday to Saturday 3 - 12-hour shifts. 2 weeks of training. Usually start on nights and do 3 months of nights, 3 month days.
Compensation & Benefits: Up to $ 65.20 per hour + Health and Welfare
Decypher is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce (M/F/D/V)