**Job Title:** Registered Nurse
**Job Specialty:** Neonatal Intensive Care (NICU) Level II or III
**Job Duration:** 13 weeks
**Shift:** 12-hour night shift, 6:30 PM - 7:00 AM, every other weekend
**Guaranteed Hours:** 36 hours per week
**Experience:** Minimum 1 year of NICU experience preferred
**License:** State RN license or RN license from a participating state in the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) required
**Certifications:**
- American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) - Required
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Certification - Required
- STABLE certification - Preferred
**Must-Have:** Nursing skills and knowledge base specific to NICU specialty
**Job Description:**
- Assess patients' physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs through observation, interview, review of medical records, and clinical data.
- Evaluate patients' responses and intervene to ensure optimal patient outcomes.
- Develop and implement patient care plans and observe outcomes in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
- Demonstrate competency in various therapeutic and diagnostic interventions, including IVs, incision/wound care, medication administration, catheterization, and specimen collections.
- Promote, advocate, and collaborate to protect the health, safety, and rights of each patient.
- Provide education to patients and families by assessing their readiness and needs for learning, and evaluate the effectiveness of teaching.
- Provide relationship-based care that respects patient preferences, values, and needs, recognizing the patient or designee as a full partner in care.
- Delegate tasks to non-RN personnel in accordance with state board regulations and hospital policy.
- Utilize time, personnel, equipment, and supplies effectively to deliver high-quality, cost-effective care.
- Serve as a professional role model, demonstrating ethical, legal, and professional nursing practices.
- Manage resources and patient flow by aligning nursing competencies with patient and unit needs.
- Use standards of care, hospital policies, procedures, and regulatory guidelines to guide practice.
- Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making.
- Mentor new staff or nursing students as needed, seeking learning opportunities and continuing education to maintain skills and competence.
- Participate in unit-based quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and research activities.
- Use healthcare research findings and evidence to enhance clinical knowledge and role performance.
- Participate actively in hospital and unit-based meetings to support the organization's goals.
- Use quality measures to improve performance and accountability for patient outcomes, safety, and experiences.
- Take care of neonatal patients ranging from feeder-grower to bubble CPAP and TPN. May initiate cooling protocols where appropriate.
- Possibly care for well babies in the OB unit if there are no patients in NICU; adult patients will not be in care scope.
- Floating may be required to any affiliated location within 60 miles of the original assignment location, including duties outside original job requirements according to policy.