The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) provides 24 hour intensive nursing care for patients aged neonate through adolescence.

The primary conditions and diagnoses treated are:
• Congenital heart disease, pre and post operative cardiac surgery
• Hematology/Oncology, Immunocompromized patients
• Metabolic disorders
• Pediatric General Surgery, Neurosurgery
• Vascular Surgery, ENT, Endocrinology
• All sick medical patients requiring intensive care

Frequent Procedures/Services/Functions:
The PICU utilizes numerous nursing diagnostic and therapeutic modalities to facilitate patient care, including the following:
• Use of nursing process, assessment, planning, interventions, and evaluation
• IV Therapy
• Thermo-regulation
• Hemodynamic monitoring
• Cardiac and neurologic monitoring
• Ventilatory support
• Psychosocial care
• Patient and family education
• Medication administration
• Trauma care
• Continuous renal replacement therapy (Prisma)
• Pain management

Hours of Operation:
24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Shifts are 12-hours in length and follow the American rotation. Overtime is available.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or Associate’s degree or Diploma in Nursing, and
• Current nursing license in Canada or the United States, and
• A minimum of two years current experience as a Registered Nurse, of which at least one must be in the specialty area, working in a mid- to large-sized acute-care hospital in North America.

Benefits:

• Tax-free income
• Single-status contract
• Accommodations provided
• Relocation allowance
• More than 7 calendar weeks of vacation