Critical Care Transport Nurse
3 weeks ago
Minimum Education
Associate's Degree School of Nursing (Required)
BSN (Preferred)Minimum Work Experience
3 years Related and progressive nursing experience (Required)
3 years Pediatric critical care or pediatric emergency care experience. (Required)Required Skills/Knowledge
Clinical expertise, problem-solving, and independent decision making skills.
Ability to perform accurate medication dosing calculations under time sensitive situations.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Maintain skills and proficiency with the use of information technology.
Maintain excellent physical and mental health with no limitations.
Must be able to withstand the physical and emotional stresses of transport, including but not limited to altitude change, temperature extreme, vibration, noise, and confined spaces.
Demonstrates competence in required procedures in accordance with established practice guidelines.
Demonstrates advanced leadership and management skills.
Demonstrates cost containment by identifying practices that affect Service Area’s cost effectiveness.Required Licenses and Certifications
Basic Life Support for Healthcare Provider (BLS) (Required)
Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
Registered Nurse in District of Columbia (Required)Functional AccountabilitiesPatient Assessment
Anticipates patient needs and secures proper equipment and personnel for transport.
Assess stable and critically ill neonates/children thoroughly on arrival at referring hospital and throughout transport.
Anticipates clinical problems associated with patients individual diagnosis, makes appropriate preparations to deal with anticipated or potential problems during transport.
Assess parent/child’s learning needs at the time of transport and communicate these to admitting nurse.
Patient Plan of Care
Formulate care plan for transport; continuously reassess patient and make appropriate changes to plan based on patient response;
Ensure the safe transport of critically ill & convalescing infants between CNMC, community hospital or to an alternate site.
Provide for the safe transport of patients and team members by adhering to established transport procedures including regular air transport training and certification.
Communicates with referring hospital and CNMC staff to ensure smooth transition of care and appropriate family involvement.
Report care giver’s response to transport to receiving staff.
Document appropriately according to hospital standards.
Evaluation of Plan of Care
Determine the effectiveness of all interventions and make revisions as necessary .
Individualize problems on care plan, adapting nursing interventions to obtain optimum patient outcome.
Review the process of back transfer planning for all patients and make appropriate arrangements for transfers.
Patient Triage
As assigned performs call intake and documents clinical information.
Contacts admitting physician or subspecialists as needed to determine plan of care and disposition per call intake algorithm or Medical Command Officer (MCO) request.
Consults with MCO to confirm priority, team configuration and mode of transport.
Communicates and documents the treatment and transports recommendation to the referring hospital.
Coordinates call dispatch with the MCO and Communication Center.
Organizational AccountabilitiesOrganizational Commitment/Identification
Partner in the mission and upholds the core principles of the organization
Committed to diversity and recognizes value of cultural ethnic differences
Demonstrate personal and professional integrity
Maintain confidentiality at all times
Customer Service
Anticipate and responds to customer needs; follows up until needs are met
Teamwork/Communication
Demonstrate collaborative and respectful behavior
Partner with all team members to achieve goals
Receptive to others’ ideas and opinions
Performance Improvement/Problem-solving
Contribute to a positive work environment
Demonstrate flexibility and willingness to change
Identify opportunities to improve clinical and administrative processes
Make appropriate decisions, using sound judgment
Cost Management/Financial Responsibility
Use resources efficiently
Search for less costly ways of doing things
Safety
Speak up when team members appear to exhibit unsafe behavior or performance
Continuously validate and verify information needed for decision making or documentation
Stop in the face of uncertainty and takes time to resolve the situation
Demonstrate accurate, clear and timely verbal and written communication
Actively promote safety for patients, families, visitors and co-workers
Attend carefully to important details - practicing Stop, Think, Act and Review in order to self-check behavior and performance
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