Travel Nurse RN - NICU - Neonatal Intensive Care
Tacoma, WA
Care Career
3x12 hrs, Days
Referral Bonus

NICU RN – Job Breakdown

🏥 Position / Facility

• Specialty: NICU RN
• NICU Level: Level IV NICU
• Hospital: 152-bed Level II Children's Hospital
• NICU Beds: 70
• Typical NICU census: ~50
• NICU is part of the pediatric hospital attached to the adult hospital.
• High-risk Labor & Delivery services.
• Private NICU rooms
• Level II Nursery overflow for feeders/growers

🕐 Schedule

• 12-hour shifts
• Days: 7:00 AM–7:30 PM
• Nights: 7:00 PM–7:30 AM
• Guaranteed: 36 hours/week
• Contract: 89 weeks listed
• Weekend: Every other weekend
  • Occasional back-to-back weekends may occur, but rare.
• On-call: No
• Block scheduling: Possible, but not guaranteed

👩‍⚕️ Required Experience

• Minimum 2 years Level III–IV NICU experience – REQUIRED
• Respiratory support for ventilated patients – REQUIRED
• First-time travelers accepted
• Travel experience is strongly preferred

📋 Required License & Certifications

• Washington State RN license
• BLS
• NRP

🩺 Required / Preferred Skills

Required:

• Ventilator/respiratory support
• G-tubes
• NG/OG tubes
• NCPAP
• UAC/UVC management
• PICC lines
• Medication administration
• Care plans
• Discharge planning / DC to home

Highly Preferred:

• Trach experience

👶 Patient Population

Experience with:

• Premature infants as young as 22 weeks gestation
• Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS)
• High-risk deliveries
• High-risk newborns
• Feeders/growers
• NAS (Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome)

Preferred:

• Surgical NICU patients
• HIE – Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy

💻 EMR

• EPIC

🔄 Floating

May float to:

• Med-Surg
• PICU

Floating applies for certain patient-support situations, including patients under 1 or as Helping Hands, according to the posting.

👕 Scrubs

• Any color