Pediatric Stepdown RN
New Haven, Connecticut
Yale-New Haven Hospital

RN Pediatrics: Pediatric Stepdown

Assignment Overview

• Employment type: Travel/Contract
• Location: New Haven, Connecticut
• Contract length: 10 weeks, for winter coverage only
• Start date: ASAP, and must start by 12/18/2026
• Local radius restrictions: Waived for this 10-week assignment
• Shift: Night, 3x12-hour shifts (19:00-07:00), 12 hours per day and 36 hours per week
• Guaranteed hours: Yes
• Float requirement: Yes
• Nurse-to-patient ratio: Average 1:4
• Weekends: Every other weekend
• Time off (RTO): No holiday RTO, and no more than 5 days RTO

Facility

• Type: Short-term acute care
• Trauma designation: Level I Trauma Center
• Total staffed beds: 1,567
• Scrub color: Royal blue

Required Qualifications

• Licensure: Valid RN license in Connecticut
• Experience: Stepdown experience, 2 years required
• Recent experience: Stepdown experience within the last year
• Certification: BLS issued by the American Heart Association or American Red Cross
• Education: Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN) / Associate Degree in Nursing

Preferred

• Tdap vaccination within 10 years of start (highly preferred; a declination is acceptable)
• COVID vaccine initial series, if previously received

Facility Training and Attestations

Completed before start, with attestations sent to the facility:

• Language services training
• CAUTI education training
• Suicide risk and environmental assessment training
• CLABSI prevention training
• Preventing pressure injury training
• Patient transportation with oxygen education
• Pyxis MedStation modules
• Baxter pump interoperability training
• Patient bedside rounding module
• Ventricular assist device awareness module
• AME blood administration module (updated annually)
• 21st Century Cures Act module
• Chaperone policy training
• Fire safety module
• New employee orientation module, provided by end of day on start date

Not required for the pediatric population: NIH stroke certification, stroke education, EKG/dysrhythmia competency exam, and mobile heartbeat alarm module.