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Education and Experience Required: Associates degree or diploma in Nursing and three (3) years neonatal pediatric intensive care or peds emergency experience.
Certification Licenses or Registration Required: Valid RN license Basic Life Support (BLS) Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) and Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP).
Other Requirements: Weight may not exceed 225 pounds when fully clothed. Must be able to lift a patient weighing 250 pounds onto a stretcher or infant in incubator carry a minimum of fifty (50) feet and load into an aircraft or ground ambulance (with the help of another provider).
Knowledge Skills and Abilities: Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to assess and treat injuries and disease for pediatric and neonatal patients. Knowledge of agents equipment procedures and techniques for the provision of emergency and critical care nursing for interfacility and scene transports. Verbal and written communication skills. Ability to remain calm in emergency conditions. Ability to provide physical and psychological treatment and comfort to patients. Ability to withstand exposure to noise external weather conditions and work in high altitudes. Ability to maintain and comply with weight and lifting restrictions and requirements.
Responsibilities
Physical and Environmental Demands:
Requires constant exposure to unpleasant or disagreeable physical environment such as high noise level and exposure to heat and cold constant handling or working with potentially dangerous equipment constant exposure to biohazardous conditions such as risk of radiation exposure blood borne pathogens fumes or airborne particles and/or toxic or caustic chemicals which mandate attention to safety considerations frequent working hours significantly beyond regularly scheduled hours constant travelling to offsite locations constant activities subject to significant volume changes of a seasonal/clinical nature constant work produced subject to precise measures of quantity and quality frequent bending frequent lifting and carrying more than 100 pounds occasional climbing frequent crouching/stooping occasional driving frequent kneeling frequent pushing/pulling frequent reaching frequent sitting frequent standing frequent twisting and frequent walking. (occasional-up to 20% frequent-from 21% to 50% constant-51% or more).
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