About this opportunity
Children's of Alabama lists this Staff Nurse NICU opportunity in birmingham, Alabama. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
In Critical Care NICU at Main Campus Quarterback Tower
Work schedule will be Full-time on the Evening Night Shift, 7p-7a.
Summary:
The staff nurse is a professional nurse who, with minimal supervision, is responsible for providing nursing care to patients. Patient care includes assessment, interventions, and reassessments of the patient. The nurse is also responsible for planning, implementing, educating, and evaluating care of patients/caregivers.
Must be able to use medical equipment, patient records, reports, and computer.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Education
Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
Licensures, Certifications, and/or Registries
Current RN license in the State of Alabama
Current BLS certification
Credentials with Equivalent Qualifications
Registered Nurse AL Single State or any of the following equivalent qualifications below: Registered Nurse AL NLC Multi State
Registered Nurse Non-AL NLC Multi State
Basic Life Support
Education with Equivalent Qualifications
Associate of Science Nursing in Nursing
The NICU is a Level IV 48-bed unit that cares for acute and chronic patients from birth to 2 years of age. We are the only ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) center in the state of Alabama. We house 4 ECMO surgical suites and have been awarded a Center for Excellence for multiple years in a row. We also care for infants on continuous dialysis therapy -Aquadex- the only hospital in the Southeast to offer this program as well as 1 of only 3 in the country. All rooms are private allowing parents to stay overnight if desired. Our patients are referred in from other hospitals for subspecialty care, with diagnoses that include respiratory illnesses, abdominal wall defects, neural tube defects, renal tube defects, congenital anomalies and many other illnesses. These infants frequently require management of mechanical ventilation, multiple intravenous fluid and drug administration, monitoring of cardiovascular status and support of family. All RN staff are skilled and trained to assess and care for infants with complex, multisystem dysfunctions. The nurse to patient ratio is usually 2:1, although occasionally depending on the acuity of the patient the ratio may be 1:1. The team uses a multidisciplinary approach in caring for infants involving nursing, physicians, respiratory, nutritionist, pharmacy, physical and occupational therapy, lactation specialist, child life, social workers and pastoral care.
Getting to Know Children's: The NICU
Schedule: 7p-7a, Evening-Night Shift, 12-Hour Shifts
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Worksite address
birmingham, AL, 35275, US
Who can apply
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