PICU Registered Nurse
Tacoma, WA
Cross Country Nurses
3x12 hrs, Days
Referral Bonus

Job Summary

Pediatric Intensive Care Unit position supporting complex pediatric patients in a high-acuity critical care environment. The role provides care for respiratory, cardiovascular, medical, surgical, neurological, trauma, and chronically ill pediatric populations, with consideration given to first-time travelers.

Job Details

• Schedule: 12-hour day or night shifts, 7:00 AM7:00 PM or 7:00 PM7:00 AM, with a minimum of 36 hours per week and every-other-weekend rotation.
• Required Qualifications:
  • Minimum of 2 years of experience
  • Basic Life Support (BLS) certification
  • Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification
  • Skills in aseptic and sterile techniques, basic dressing changes, ventilator and tracheostomy management, suctioning, gastrostomy and jejunostomy tube management, feeding tubes, chest tubes, epidurals, patient-controlled analgesia, drip management, Foley catheter insertion and management, and discharge procedures
• Preferred Qualifications:
  • Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy experience using PrisMax
  • Cardiac Intensive Care Unit experience
• Additional Information:
  • Patient populations include respiratory conditions requiring high-flow oxygen, continuous positive airway pressure, or bilevel positive airway pressure; tracheostomies; oncology; respiratory syncytial virus; asthma; coronavirus disease; multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children; new-onset diabetes requiring insulin drips; congenital heart defects; trauma; neurological conditions; and complex medical and surgical diagnoses.
  • The role may involve care for patients from infancy through young adulthood, including postoperative cardiac, neurological, respiratory, gastrointestinal, otolaryngological, and other surgical conditions.
  • Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy assignments may be available for clinicians with prior experience and completion of unit-specific training.
  • Clinical support may be provided in medical-surgical, emergency, or neonatal intensive care settings as needed.
  • Scrub attire may be any color; hooded shirts and long sleeves must not be worn below the elbows.

Benefits

The benefits of taking a travel assignment with Cross Country include:

• Private housing or generous housing allowance
• Comprehensive health insurance with prescription coverage
• Dependent health insurance with prescription coverage
• Competitive salaries
• Referral bonuses
• Travel reimbursement
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Direct deposit/free checking
• Unlimited free CE credits