The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) provides 24 hour intensive nursing care for patients aged neonate through adolescence.
Number of Beds: 18 ; Nurse Patient Ratio: 1:1-2
The primary conditions and diagnoses treated are:
• Congenital heart disease, pre and post operative cardiac surgery
• Hematology/Oncology, Immunocompromized patients
• Metabolic disorders
• Pediatric General Surgery, Neurosurgery
• Vascular Surgery, ENT, Endocrinology
• All sick medical patients requiring intensive care
Frequent Procedures/Services/Functions:
The PICU utilizes numerous nursing diagnostic and therapeutic modalities to facilitate patient care, including the following:
• Use of nursing process, assessment, planning, interventions, and evaluation
• IV Therapy
• Thermo-regulation
• Hemodynamic monitoring
• Cardiac and neurologic monitoring
• Ventilatory support
• Psychosocial care
• Patient and family education
• Medication administration
• Trauma care
• Continuous renal replacement therapy (Prisma)
• Pain management
Hours of Operation:
24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Nursing, and
- Current nursing license in Canada or the United States, and
- A minimum of six years experience as a Registered Nurse, including a minimum of two years of current experience as a Nurse Manager/Head Nurse in PICU, at a large acute-care teaching hospital in North America.
Benefits:
- Tax-free income
- Accommodations provided
- Relocation allowance
- Annual Air Transportation
- Medical coverage
- More than 7 calendar weeks of vacation
Apply to this Job
To apply to this job please fill out the form below, email your resume to hza@hziegler.com or call us at 1-800-387-4616.
Since we are a North American based recruitment company we are only able to recruit citizens of Canada and the United States.
