RN Critical Care Transport - Part Time

Description

• →Evaluates, plans, administers, and documents nursing care for patients during transport.
• →Provides physical and psychological comfort to patients. Monitors patient condition during transport and adverse reactions to drugs of treatment.
• →Guides assisting personnel in the provision of patient care.
• →Ensures equipment and supplies are available and functional and reports any equipment failures.
• →Promotes a positive image of UMMC by participating in community outreach programs.
• →Ensures regulatory compliance of patient care provided during flight transport. Prepares and maintains applicable reports and documentation.
• →Participate in disaster preparedness and operational support to include EMS unit operations as well as supporting UMMC’s role in the State Medical Response System.
• →The duties listed are general in nature and are examples of the duties and responsibilities performed and are not meant to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive. Management retains the right to add or change duties at any time.

Physical and Environmental Demands: Requires constant exposure to unpleasant or disagreeable physical environment such as high noise level and exposure to heat and cold, constant handling or working with potentially dangerous equipment, constant exposure to biohazardous conditions such as risk of radiation exposure, blood borne pathogens, fumes or airborne particles, and/or toxic or caustic chemicals which mandate attention to safety considerations, frequent working hours significantly beyond regularly scheduled hours, constant travelling to offsite locations, constant activities subject to significant volume changes of a seasonal/clinical nature, constant work produced subject to precise measures of quantity and quality, frequent bending, frequent lifting and carrying more than 100 pounds, occasional climbing, frequent crouching/stooping, occasional driving, frequent kneeling, frequent pushing/pulling, frequent reaching, frequent sitting, frequent standing, frequent twisting, and frequent walking. (occasional-up to 20%, frequent-from 21% to 50%, constant-51% or more).

Requirements

Education and Experience Required: Associate's degree or diploma in Nursing and three (3) years neonatal, pediatric intensive care or peds emergency experience.

Certification, Licenses or Registration Required: Valid RN license, Basic Life Support (BLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), and Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP).

Other Requirements: Weight may not exceed 225 pounds when fully clothed. Must be able to lift a patient weighing 250 pounds onto a stretcher or infant in incubator, carry a minimum of fifty (50) feet and load into an aircraft or ground ambulance (with the help of another provider).