Experience
- Minimum 2 years NICU experience required
- Previous travel experience preferred
- Experience with patient ratios of 1:3 required
License & Certification Required
- California RN license
- BLS
- NRP
Desired Skills
- Charge experience preferred
- NRP Advanced certification preferred
- Experience with Meditech charting system preferred
Skills Required
- Administration of blood & blood products
- Anti-Seizure Medications
- Antibiotics/Antivirals
- APGAR scoring
- Arterial line management
- Assist with lumbar puncture
- Attend High Risk Deliveries
- Blood glucose monitoring
- Breastfeeding Support/Handling of Breast Milk
- Bubble CPAP
- Conscious Sedation
- Developmental Care
- Feedings (bottle, breast, gavage)
- High Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC)
- High Frequency Ventilation
- Hyperbilirubinemia management
- ICP monitoring
- Isolation Precautions/PPE
- IV vasopressors management
- Management of Chest Tubes
- Meconium Aspiration management
- Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome management
- Neonatal Dosage Calculations
- Neonatal Sepsis management
- Care for Neonates 34 weeks
- Care for Neonates 29-34 weeks
- NICU III and NICU IV skills
- Nitric Oxide (INo) management
- Oscillators operation
- Oxygen Delivery Systems
- Patient/family teaching
- Phlebotomy
- Phototherapy
- Placement/Management of oral/nasogastric/nasojejunal tubes
- Respiratory distress syndrome management
- Seizure disorders management
- Sepsis Work Up
- Starting and maintaining IVs
- Use of Steroids
- Suctioning (ETT, NT)
- Surfactants use
- Telemetry monitoring
- Therapeutic hypothermia (cooling blanket)
- Thermoregulation
- Tracheostomy care/management
- UAC (Umbilical Artery Catheter) management
- UVC (Umbilical Vein Catheter) management
- Ventilator management (AC/PC/SIMV/CPAP/BIPAP/PEEP)
