NICU Registered Nurse
Salt Lake City, UT
Cross Country Nurses
3x12 hrs, Days
Referral Bonus

Job Summary

Registered Nurse, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), Salt Lake City, Utah. This travel nursing position supports a high-acuity neonatal intensive care unit caring for premature and critically ill neonates, including patients requiring respiratory support. The role involves neonatal assessment, stabilization, critical care interventions, family-centered care, and collaboration with neonatologists, neonatal nurse practitioners, respiratory therapists, and multidisciplinary teams.

Job Details

• Schedule: Day shifts, 12 hours per shift, with a minimum of 36 hours per week. Rotating weekends are required, including approximately four weekend shifts per month.
• Required Qualifications:
  • Current registered nurse license
  • Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) certification
  • Basic Life Support (BLS) certification
  • STABLE certification
  • At least 2 years of recent Level III or higher neonatal intensive care unit experience
  • Experience caring for premature and critically ill neonates, including infants requiring respiratory support
  • Competency managing patients receiving continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), high-flow nasal cannula, and mechanical ventilation
  • Experience with umbilical arterial and venous catheters, peripherally inserted central catheter lines, and central line management
  • Experience administering and monitoring total parenteral nutrition, lipids, intravenous medications, and neonatal infusions
  • Proficiency in neonatal assessment, stabilization, and recognition of clinical deterioration
• Preferred Qualifications:
  • Level IV or regional referral neonatal intensive care unit experience
  • Experience caring for micro-preemies born before 28 weeks of gestation and extremely low birth weight infants
  • Experience with high-frequency ventilation and inhaled nitric oxide
  • Experience assisting with and caring for infants after peripherally inserted central catheter placement, chest tube placement, and neonatal procedures
  • Experience with therapeutic hypothermia protocols
  • Experience caring for infants with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy
• Additional Information:
  • Provides care for intensive care and feeder-grower neonatal populations with patient assignments based on acuity.
  • Performs neonatal resuscitation and stabilization, respiratory support management, surfactant administration, line management, peripheral intravenous care, blood product administration, phototherapy, and enteral tube feeding.
  • Manages neonatal medications and infusions, sepsis evaluations, therapeutic hypothermia protocols, discharge planning, and caregiver education.
  • Requires a calm, collaborative, adaptable, and family-centered approach in rapidly changing clinical situations.
  • Hospital-laundered scrubs are provided for each shift.
  • Floating to a well-baby nursery may be required.

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