Travel Nurse RN - PICU - Pediatric Intensive Care
Tacoma, WA
TNAA TotalMed RN
3x12 hrs, Nights
Referral Bonus

Units: PICU

Experience Required: 2 years. Will consider a 1st time traveler.

Certs Required: BLS, PALS, Active WA/Compact license.

Skills Required: MUST have PICU exp within the last year. Ability to pass Traveler Tele Comp, strong assessment skills, quick learner, critical thinker, have good time management, be engaging; knowledgeable on: aseptic and sterile techniques, basic dressing changes, ventilator and trach management, suctioning, g-tube/j-tube management, feeding tubes, chest tubes, epidurals, PCAs, drip management, Foley insertion and management, discharge skills, CRRT experience with Prismax preferred.

Floating: MedSurg, NICU (low acuity) , or ED – Helping hands

Patient Types: Respiratory patients (high flow, CPAP, BiPAP), trachs, chemo, RSV, asthma, Covid; Medical: MIS-C, new onset diabetes with insulin drips, chronically ill, oncology; Trauma (falls, MVAs, etc.); Surgical – appys, g-tubes, ENT, fresh trachs, bowel obstructions, broken bones, VP shunts, cardiac, neuro; NO solid organ transplant, major burns, stem cell transplant; bad facial wounds, eye injuries or penetrating trauma will go to Level 1 Trauma Center- Harborview; Non – Cardiac ECMO (ECMO specialist will deal with the ECMO machine), CRRT

EMR: EPIC (experience preferred)

Unit Info: 
Level II Trauma Center
On call: only if Low Censused, response time = 1 hr
82 bed Level 2 Trauma Center with 16 PICU beds that are interchangeable between MedSurg and PICU