PICU Registered Nurse (RN)

We are seeking experienced Registered Nurses (RNs) to provide comprehensive, high-quality nursing care in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). The RN will care for critically ill pediatric patients with complex medical and surgical conditions across a range of ages and acuity levels.

This role requires a dependable nursing professional who can meet government qualification, credentialing, security, and onboarding requirements while working under a personal services arrangement. The ideal candidate will bring recent registered nursing experience in a primary care or occupational medicine setting, a current unrestricted RN license, strong clinical judgment, and a commitment to supporting mission readiness and high-quality care for service members and eligible patient populations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Patient Assessment & Care: Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate nursing care for critically ill patients with complex medical and surgical conditions. 
• Critical Care: Manage patients requiring hemodynamic monitoring, vasopressors, ventilators, and other advanced life-support equipment. 
• Clinical Procedures: Perform or assist with invasive and advanced procedures such as arterial lines, central lines, pulmonary artery catheters, chest tubes, temporary pacemakers, and other procedures within their scope. 
• Medications & Treatments: Administer medications using the Five Rights and through various routes, including IV, IM, oral, subcutaneous, transdermal, and rectal. Verify medication compatibility and appropriate use. 
• Emergency Response: Recognize life-threatening conditions and initiate lifesaving measures when necessary. Operate emergency equipment such as defibrillators, EKG machines, and cardiac monitors and participate in rapid response/code teams as required. 
• Documentation: Accurately document patient assessments, treatments, medications, progress, admissions, discharges, and other required information in accordance with MAMC nursing standards. 
• Patient & Family Education: Act as a patient advocate, assess patient/family understanding, provide education, and document their level of understanding. 
• Direct Patient Care: Assist with hygiene, feeding, positioning, lifting, turning, transporting, range-of-motion exercises, linen changes, and other routine patient-care needs. 
• Communication & Coordination: Communicate patient status and pertinent information to physicians, charge nurses, and other healthcare providers. Participate in handoffs, care conferences, discharge planning, and multidisciplinary coordination. 
• Infection Control & Safety: Follow established infection-control procedures and address situations that could compromise patient or staff safety. 
• Quality & Risk Management: Participate in quality assurance, risk management, research, committees, and projects as assigned. 
• Staff Coordination: RNs may distribute or redistribute staff resources based on patient-care needs and the capabilities of available personnel. 
• Professional Conduct: Maintain composure and professionalism when dealing with patients, families, and difficult or distressed individuals. 
• Emergency Readiness: Respond quickly and appropriately to cardiac/respiratory arrest, hemorrhage, shock, trauma, psychiatric emergencies, and other critical situations.