Registered Nurse (Experienced RN) - Neonatal/Pediatrics Team - Duke Life Flight
Company: Duke Health
Location: Chapel Hill
Posted on: May 27, 2023
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Job Description:
Duke University Hospital Duke University Hospital is
consistently rated as one of the best in the United States and is
known around the world for its outstanding care and groundbreaking
research. Duke University Hospital has 1,048 licensed inpatient
beds and offers comprehensive diagnostic and therapeutic
facilities, including a regional emergency/trauma center; a major
surgery suite containing 65 operating rooms; an endo-surgery
center; a separate hospital outpatient surgical department with
nine operating rooms and an extensive diagnostic and interventional
radiology area. For , U.S. News and World Report ranked Duke
University Hospital nationally in 11 adult specialties: cancer,
cardiology & heart surgery, diabetes & endocrinology, ear, nose &
throat, gastroenterology & GI surgery, gynecology, neurology &
neurosurgery, ophthalmology, orthopedics, pulmonology & lung
surgery, and urology. Duke University Hospital is also ranked first
in North Carolina and first in the Raleigh-Durham area.
In addition to its hospitals, Duke Health has an extensive,
geographically dispersed network of outpatient facilities that
include primary care offices, urgent care centers, multi-specialty
clinics and outpatient surgery centers.
Duke Nursing Highlights:
As of 10/1/22, Experienced RNs that accept positions on the Duke
Life Flight Team are eligible for a $15000 sign on bonus (or former
Duke employees coming back after 1 year into the Duke Health
System)
Join our CAMTS Accredited multi-disciplinary team of RNs, RRTs,
Paramedics, EMTs, and Communications Specialists working in a
cohesive environment that expands across the Duke Health System. As
part of our team, you will expand your knowledge base by practicing
in an evidenced-based and protocol driven autonomous environment.
Every day has the potential for different experiences - when not
transporting, you will round on the inpatient units, conduct
medical record audits, participate in continuing education, and
policy revisions/updates.
Along with a strong neonatal and pediatrics knowledge base your
ambition, energy, flexibility, adaptability, trust and compassion
make you the ideal candidate.
When time and specialized services are crucial to patients' outcome
and survival, the Duke Life Flight team is called. The intense
level of care patients receive, from the time we pick them up to
the time they arrive at Duke University Hospital, makes a
significant difference in their survival and recovery.
Helicopter Transport
As a critical part of our Neonatal/Pediatric transport program,
each aircraft is staffed with a pilot and two highly trained
critical care providers (Respiratory Therapist and Registered
Nurse). Coordinated by our communications center as well as DUHS
Neonatology and Pediatric physician support, this team responds to
ill and injured patients with state of the art equipment utilizing
the safest and most appropriate mode of transport possible.
The neonatal/pediatric team utilizes isolettes, nitric oxide, ECMO,
Neo Mate, Pedi Mate, Baby Pod and high flow oxygen therapies, to
name a few, during rotor wing operations. Rotor wing operations
comprise of approximately 10% of this specialized teams transport
volume.
Ground Transport
Although Duke Life Flight was founded as an air-only transport
program, the teams ground assets are utilized more often and for
all levels of care from ALS to critical care.
Serving as "rolling intensive care units' that can meet any
patient's transport needs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, each
ambulance is staffed with team members that complement the
patient's needs.
A minimum of 3 years pediatric/neonatal emergency and or critical
care experience preferred. Air and/or ground transport nursing
experience is preferred.
6' 4" in height.
Duke is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed
to providing employment opportunity without regard to an
individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression,
gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race,
religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.
Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration,
innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success
depends on the robust exchange of ideas-an exchange that is best
when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and
experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential
that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the
contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices
are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to
uphold these values.
Essential Physical Job Functions: Certain jobs at Duke University
and Duke University Health System may include essentialjob
functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities.
Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable
accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.
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