NICU RN
Kansas City, Missouri
Saint Luke's North Hospital - Barry Road Campus

Registered Nurse / NICU

Overview

• Travel/Contract role in Kansas City, Missouri
• Night shift: 3x12 hours, 19:00–7:00
• 36 hours per week
• 13-week contract
• 5-bed, Level II NICU
• Ratios: 1:2–3

Required Qualifications

• Valid RN license in Missouri
• NICU - Neonatal Intensive Care (2 years of experience)
• NICU - Neonatal Intensive Care experience within the last year
• One completed travel assignment
• BLS issued by American Heart Association
• NRP - Neonatal Resuscitation Procedure
• Associate of Science in Nursing / Associate Degree in Nursing
• Experience working with Neonate patients
• Experience with central line management
• Experience with umbilical line (UAC/UVC) management
• Attending high risk deliveries

Preferred

• STABLE
• Cross-trained to attend deliveries and provide 1:1 recovery care of a newborn
• Experience with postpartum/couplet care
• Travelers with couplet care experience are preferred

Clinical Setting / Scope

• Work settings: Mother/Baby, NICU II
• Patient types: neonates 29–34 weeks and neonates >34 weeks
• Admits infants 34 weeks and above; lower gestational age infants are transferred to a higher-level NICU
• Expected to assist/support well newborn assessments and procedures when there is no NICU census
• Expected to stabilize and transfer higher acuity and/or lower gestational age newborns
• May assist with procedures including needle aspiration, chest tube placement, UVC/UAC line placement, lumbar puncture, intubation, surfactant administration, resuscitation, and initiation of passive cooling
• Attending and catching newborns at delivery

Skills and Experience

• Blood glucose monitoring
• Bottle, breast, and gavage feedings
• Isolation precautions
• Central line/implanted line care
• UAC and UVC care
• Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
• Patient/family teaching
• Attending high-risk deliveries

Equipment / Support

• Standard NICU equipment including IV pumps, syringe feeding pumps, phototherapy equipment, incubator/isolette/Omnibed, and radiant warmers
• Neonatal echo available
• Telehealth support/consultation from neonatologist

Scheduling / Assignment Notes

• Holiday shifts and Charge RN assignments as needed per unit
• Regular floating may be required between departments, units, and facilities as needed
• No block schedule accommodation
• RTO restriction: no more than 7 days