Pediatric Cardiac ICU RN
Tacoma, WA
Cross Country Nurses
3x12 hrs, Nights
Referral Bonus

Job Summary

Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Nights. This position provides care for predominantly pediatric cardiac intensive care patients, including postoperative congenital heart cases, medical cardiac conditions, respiratory diagnoses, surgical cases, and neuro patients. The role supports patients through critical care management from surgery through discharge.

Job Details

• Required Qualifications: Minimum of 2 years of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) experience, including at least 1 year of Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (PCICU) experience; Basic Life Support (BLS); Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS); experience with cardiac patients, cardiac surgeries and diagnoses, aseptic and sterile technique, dressing changes, ventilator and tracheostomy management, suctioning, G-tube, GJ-tube and J-tube management, nasogastric tubes, chest tubes, epidurals, patient-controlled analgesia pumps, drip management, Foley catheter insertion and management, central line dressing changes and care, central line blood draws, peripheral laboratory draws, and patient discharge.
• Preferred Qualifications: Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) experience, peritoneal dialysis experience, continuous renal replacement therapy experience, Prismax experience, and electronic medical record experience.
• Schedule: Night shifts from 7:00 p.m. to 7:30 a.m.; 12-hour shifts; minimum of 36 hours per week.
• Float: Float rotation may be required.
• Additional Information: The patient population includes mixed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (PCICU) cases involving neuro, cardiac, respiratory, surgical, and medical conditions. Responsibilities may include care for fresh open-heart patients, post-catheterization patients, congestive heart failure, cardiomyopathy, myocarditis, post-cardiac arrest patients, respiratory cases requiring high-flow oxygen, continuous positive airway pressure, bilevel positive airway pressure, or tracheostomy care, trauma cases, appendectomies, gastrostomy tubes, Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) procedures, bowel obstructions, fractures, ventriculoperitoneal shunts, and neuro patients receiving chemotherapy. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) specialists manage the ECMO machine. No on-call shifts are required; low-census standby may result in being called in for a later portion of the shift. Weekend rotation occurs every other weekend unless otherwise requested or stated. A first-time traveler may be considered. Solid-color professional attire is required.
• Assignment Dates: 11/30/202602/27/2027.

Benefits

The benefits of taking a travel assignment with Cross Country include:

• Private housing or generous housing allowance
• Comprehensive health insurance with prescription coverage
• Dependent health insurance with prescription coverage
• Competitive salaries
• Referral bonuses
• Travel reimbursement
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Direct deposit/free checking
• Unlimited free CE credits