Travel Nurse RN - PICU - Pediatric Intensive Care
Rapid City, SD
Premier Medical Staffing Services
3x12 hrs, Nights

• Experience required: 1.5 years PICU RN experience
• Required Certifications: RN: BLS, PALS, NIHSS
• Required Education: Completion of a nursing education program that is approved by a board of nursing; Registered Nurse (RN) - South Dakota Board of Nursing
• Skills required: Physical assessment of patients, ages 0 Adult
• Skills required: Evaluate patient symptoms and associated vital signs
• Skills required: Administer medications as prescribed
• Skills required: Educate patients and families on plan of care
• Skills required: Proficient use of EPIC charting system
• Skills required: PICU experience ability to titrate drips and care for the mechanically ventilated patient.

ADDITIONAL DETAILS:

• Beds: 15 bed Pediatric Unit; 5 Bed PICU
• Patient Ratios: RN General Pediatrics - 1:5
• Patient Ratios: PICU: 1:1-2
• Patient Types: Will work through both Gen Peds and PICU
• Patient Types: Pediatrics: Patients 0-18 years of age and adult overflow (stable medical
  s/p appendectomy, s/p cholecystectomy, cellulitis, etc.).
• Patient Types: The diagnosis of these patients varies from respiratory illness, diabetes, septicemia, cellulitis, hyperbilirubinemia, neglect/abuse, mental health, trauma, neurology, and general surgeries.
• Patient Types: PICU: Patients 0-18 years of age requiring critical or intensive care services.
• Patient Types: The most common disease entities you may care for in our Advanced Care Pediatrics Unit include but are not limited to:?acute and chronic respiratory insufficiency, circulatory failure, infectious diseases leading to major organ system dysfunction, endocrine and metabolic disorders, neurologic diseases, toxic ingestions/exposures, trauma, hematologic and oncologic disease