Registered Nurse - PICU

The Nemours Foundation•Wilmington, NC

About The Position

The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Nemours Children's Health, Delaware is seeking a Registered Nurse to join its team in Wilmington, Delaware. This is a full-time, rotating position. The PICU is a 24-bed unit in a Level 1 Trauma Center. PICU patients require intensive care and surveillance for conditions that may include acute and reversible loss of consciousness, respiratory failure or compromised air exchange, cardiovascular dysfunction, hepatic failure, hemodynamic instability, renal dysfunction, central nervous system injury or dysfunction, acute trauma, and organ failure requiring transplantation. Treatments and interventions use advanced life support technology, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation, tracheal intubation, ECMO, pharmacologic support of circulation, mechanical ventilation, point-of-care monitoring, CRRT, thoracentesis, and hemodynamic, intracranial pressure, and intravascular monitoring. Patient rooms have electrocardiographic, pulse oximetry, respiratory, hemodynamic, and intracranial pressure monitoring capabilities, as well as central EKG and respiratory monitoring. Portable monitoring is available during patient transport. Special equipment includes radiant warmer beds, heating and cooling blanket systems, a Mapleson manual ventilation system, end-tidal CO2 monitors, ventilators, hemodynamic and intracranial pressure monitoring systems, ventriculostomy systems, infusion pumps, a blood warmer, continuous renal replacement systems, and peripheral nerve stimulators.