NICU RN
Baltimore, MD
Host Healthcare
3x12 hrs, Nights
Referral Bonus

Peds RN – NICU

• Location: Baltimore, Maryland
• Employment type: Travel/Contract
• Start date: 11/16/2026
• Contract length: 13 weeks
• Reason for opening: Backfill
• Schedule: Rotating nights and days, 3x12-hour shifts (night 19:00–07:30 or day 07:00–19:30), 36 hours per week
• Weekends: Every other weekend required
• Holidays: Required as they fall, as scheduled
• Floating: Float within the specialty and sister units as needed
• On-call: Not required
• Ratio: 1:3, up to 1:4 with a lower-acuity patient group
• Patient age group: Neonates, infants, pediatrics
• Patient diagnoses: Prematurity, AOP, ROP, BLD/CLD, cardiac defects, feeding issues, NAS, iatrogenic NAS
• Special equipment: Trach/vents, PICCs/CL, TPN/IL
• Scrubs: Any color or print
• First-time travelers: Accepted

Required Qualifications

• Valid RN license in Maryland
• Associate of Science in Nursing / Associate Degree in Nursing
• NICU - Neonatal Intensive Care experience (minimum 2 years), including experience within the last year
• Pediatrics experience
• Experience with ventilator management and tracheostomy care
• BLS issued by American Heart Association (AHA only)
• CPI (Crisis Prevention Institute) training
• Active RN MD state license
• NURSYS verification
• Age-specific competency exam within 1 year of start, scored 80% or higher
• Color blindness test
• Tdap within 10 years of start (required for units working with children)
• Physical exam within 1 year of start
• Negative QuantiFERON-TB Gold or T-SPOT within 1 year of start, or two PPDs (first within 1 year, second within 3 months of start), or a 2-step PPD within 6 months of start (positive responders need a negative chest X-ray after the positive result and an annual TB questionnaire)
• Measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella: positive titer or proof of 2 vaccines (2 boosters for low/equivocal titer)
• Hepatitis B: series of 3 and positive titer (a declination is allowed if the candidate is confident of 3 doses and has a positive titer)
• Negative 10-panel drug screen within 90 days of start (instant test acceptable)
• Flu vaccine or medical/religious exemption for 10/1–3/31 (agency exemption acceptable; documentation on file by 12/1 for working travelers)
• Fit test within 1 year of start, updated annually
• Background check within 1 year of start, updated annually, including a 7-year criminal search, sanction lists, and highest-level education verification
• Work history verification for the previous 5 years (attestation accepted if necessary)
• Two supervisory references within 1 year of start (charge RNs or supervisors/managers acceptable)
• I-9 and E-Verify (or attestation)
• Employment application completed within 30 days of start
• Government-issued photo ID
• Badge photo (head and shoulders, solid white or beige background)
• Badge application within 72 hours of signing
• Latex allergy questionnaire
• Confidentiality agreement signed before start
• Dress code review before start
• Maryland state exclusions list search within 30 days of start
• Lab items completed within 72 hours of contract signing

Preferred Qualifications

• ACLS

Conditionally Required (per unit description)

• PALS (AHA only)
• NRP (AHA/AAP only)
• NIH Stroke Certification
• STABLE
• CHEMO
• TNCC
• EFM
• Software training test-out form (if eligible)