Job Summary
Registered Nurse, Pediatric Step Down Unit, Baltimore, Maryland. This position provides nursing care for pediatric and adolescent patients in a mixed rehabilitation and step-down setting. The role requires experience with tracheostomy and ventilator management, pediatric care, and complex rehabilitation diagnoses.
Job Details
- Schedule: Three 12-hour rotating shifts, including days and nights from 7:00 AM–7:30 PM or 7:00 PM–7:30 AM, with 36 hours per week.
- Required Qualifications:
- Two years of nursing experience.
- Active Maryland or compact Registered Nurse license.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
- Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) certification.
- Experience with tracheostomy care and management and ventilator management.
- Skills in central line and implanted line care, bottle, breast, and gavage feedings, infection prevention, isolation precautions and personal protective equipment (PPE), nasogastric (NG) tube insertion and management, oral and nasal suctioning, oxygen delivery systems, pediatric medical-surgical care, pediatric step-down care, peripheral line care and management, spinal cord injury care, starting and maintaining intravenous (IV) access, and wound assessment and care.
- Preferred Qualifications: Previous charting system experience is preferred. Pediatric rehabilitation or pediatric medical-surgical experience is acceptable when the required clinical skills are present.
- Additional Information:
- Patient population includes pediatric and adolescent patients.
- Typical patient ratio is 1:4 on days, nights, and weekends.
- Patient conditions may include traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, gunshot wounds, motor vehicle accident injuries, burns, feeding disorders, failure to thrive, spina bifida, cerebral palsy, and post-orthopedic surgical needs requiring extensive speech, physical, and occupational therapy.
- Care may include patients requiring tracheostomy and ventilator support for respiratory or cardiac conditions.
- Physical therapy, respiratory services, interpretation services, phlebotomy, radiology, pharmacy, and unit secretary support are available.
- Weekend coverage is required every other weekend, and holidays are required as scheduled.
- On-call coverage is not required.
- Any color or pattern of scrubs may be worn.
- A flu vaccine is required without exemptions.
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
