About this job
Active NY License Accepted
Recruitment:
- COVID VACCINE required
- Previous Elizabeth Seton employees must be away for one year before being considered to come back as a traveler
- Orientation is only held 1x per month - Paperwork due 10days before start (SCR Form must be submitted 2 weeks prior to start date for clearance with State of NY - Travelers cannot start with this clearance pending)
- Only submit for 13 weeks and 36hrs. 48hrs is not available at this facility.
- Facility does not accept requests for 'Block Scheduling'. Candidates who are flexible with scheduling work best at this facility
- All employees are required to clock out for 30 mins break/lunch time - (no working through lunch, leaving early or demanding pay for not taking lunch break)
- If candidate is approved, hospital will typically do a phone screen and based on that they will ask them to log on for a ZOOM interview or come in for an in person interview at the hospital if they are local to NY.
- Parking: onsite parking is free
***RECRUITERS - please include summary of vent experience with the machines listed below with your submit. RN will be declined without summary of recent vent experience.
1. Do you have experience with the following machines (LTV1200, Vision BiPap and Cpap) If so, how much experience/how often did you work with them?
2. Which hospitals did you work with these machines?
3. Can you function independently with responding to and resetting alarms on these machines?
4. Do you rely on respiratory therapists to control/monitor the equipment or can you do this yourself?
Unit Details:
- Required Certs: BLS (PALS preferred)
- The ideal candidate needs to have a minimum of 2 years of acute care pediatric experience documented in work history (will not accept candidates with only ER/home care experience) - looking for candidates with a background in PICU. Must have a PICU skills checklist completed.
- Experience taking care age group:
- New Born to 26 year old. Be able to handle ratio: 5-6:1
- Must be able to do Total Care: Diaper change, Bath, Showers, assist with ADL’s, Transfer
- Must have Vent, trach care & G-Tube Feeding Experience.
- Every other weekend required, rotating holiday coverage
- Schedule: 12 hour shifts - travelers are guaranteed 36 hour per week with every other weekend factored in. (every other Saturday and Sunday required) no 8 hour shifts for RNs.
- Facility cannot accommodate scheduling requests - must be flexible to meet the needs of the facility
- OT for travel nurses requires prior approval from facility’s CNO
- All nurses are required and expected to participate in total care of the facility’s residents when needed/required
- 24 beds per unit, 169 bed facility
- 6-8 ratio
- Float through-out the house: Staff nurses are assigned a specific unit to work on. Travel nurses float between all of our units depending on where the needs are on that particular day. The preference is for ALL of our nurses to have experience with ventilators. It is a very different environment from the acute care hospital setting. Not every nurse is going to be comfortable working with this special population but for those who are, it will be a very rewarding experience!! Many of our past travelers have extended their contracts and some have even transitioned to staff nurses.
- Scrubs: Nurses can wear child friendly pediatric scrubs
- EMR: Sigma Care
Facility / Services:
Elizabeth Seton Pediatric Center is currently a 169 bed long term care / short term rehab center for chronically ill and medically fragile children. The facility (we are NOT a hospital) is not accredited by the Joint Commission but our standards and practices are equivalent to facilities whom are. We have nurse managers, house supervisors 24/7, in house physicians and nurse practitioners. We have a variety of ancillary support including certified nursing assistants, respiratory therapists, PT, OT, speech therapy, music and art therapy in addition to child life specialists. Interaction with family members varies completely depending on the child. Many have little to no family involvement.
Children’s conditions:
Some of our children stay with us for only a short time for things such as feeding therapy. Many of our children stay with us for years, leaving only when they graduate to an adult nursing home type setting. Typical diagnoses include hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, seizure disorders, cerebral palsy and chronic lung disease. We offer palliative care and pain management. Most of our children have G tubes or GJ tubes and tracheostomies with some requiring ventilator assistance.
Long Term Children’s Home vs Acute Care Nursing:
We recently expanded from 6 units with a total of 137 children to 8 units with 169 children. There are no traditional nursing stations as everything is set up to feel like a home rather than an institution. We use Sigma Careas our EMR.
There are no FULL CODES here at all. We stabilize children and transfer them out as needed. Full life support is not available here. When we transfer a child out, it is standard procedure for nurses (both staff and travelers) to accompany the child. Nurses are also needed to, at times, accompany children to routine clinic appointments at nearby hospitals.
There are no peripheral IVs here. We do a lot of tube feedings (NG, Gtube and Jtube) and give a lot of anti-seizure meds. We also do dressing changes and trach care / suctioning. Some of our children use bair huggers for temp instability. During the day many of the children attend school which is located within our building. They also receive the majority of their therapies during the day. At night, most kids are sleeping so there are fewer ancillary staff. (no PT, OT, Speech therapy)
Typical assignments per nurse can include between 4 to 8 children. Nurses are responsible for providing some total care for the children. This includes bathing, dressing and applying braces.
Local Rate: $87.00 Duties & Responsibilities
Travel nursing in Yonkers, NY
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