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Time Type:
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Department:
CC014404 Jonesboro Ground TransportVariable shifts & schedule; Rotating base location (LR and Jonesboro)
Provides comprehensive nursing care to critically ill or injured neonates, children and specifically referred adults. The Transport RN is responsible for accurate assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient care in accordance with established protocols while on transport and in the Intensive Care Units or Emergency Room. The Transport RN is responsible for the stabilization and care of patients during transport under the direction of designated AC physicians.
**Pediatric ICU, Neonatal ICU, Pediatric CVICU or Pediatric Emergency Experience Preferred.
Associate Degree Nursing
Bachelor's Degree Nursing
Nursing - 3 years of experience
Basic Certified (NREMT) - National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT), Must obtain National Registry of EMT-Basic within 18 months of hire - NREMT-Basic- NREMT, Must obtain Neonatal Pediatric Transport (C-NPT) within 24 months of Hire - C-NPT-NCC, Must obtain Transport EMT within 18 months of hire - EMT-ADH, Neonatal Pediatric Transport (C-NPT) - NCC, Registered Nurse (RN) license - Arkansas or Compact State, Transport - EMT (AR) - Arkansas Department of Health
1. Demonstrates and promotes excellence in the application of the AC Model of Patient and Family-Centered care. Evaluates and treats patients prior to and during transport, ensuring patient safety and implementing life support measures as needed.
2. Monitors patient's condition, documents nursing care, and reports patient status to clinical staff. Performs patient assessments, problem identification, administers IV medications and implements plan of care.
3. Coordinates plan of care with other healthcare team members and initiates action to prevent current or potential risk to patient in an emergency situation.
4. Recognizes, reports, responds to, records and re-evaluates changes in pertinent patient information on conditions in appropriate time frame.
5. Communicates and collaborates through verbal and written reports to assure continuity of care.
6. Provides and promotes safe transportation of patient while delivering quality care. Complies with safety instructions, maintains inflectional control, secures patient in transport, and loads all required equipment into aircraft.
7. Assists in maintaining a safe transport environment by performing second crewmember walks, foreign object damage inspection, assisting pilot in pre-flight checklist, and maintaining a sterile cockpit until instructed by the pilot.
8. Promotes performance improvement and activities to improve quality of care.
9. Performs other duties as assigned.
Arkansas Children's is the only healthcare system in the state solely dedicated to caring for Arkansas' more than 700,000 children. The private, non-profit organization includes two pediatric hospitals, a pediatric research institute and USDA nutrition center, a philanthropic foundation, a nursery alliance, statewide clinics, and many education and outreach programs — all focused on fulfilling a promise to define and deliver unprecedented child health. Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH) is a 336-bed, Magnet-recognized facility in Little Rock operating the state’s only Level I pediatric trauma center; the state's only burn center; the state's only Level IV neonatal intensive care unit; the state's only pediatric intensive care unit; the state’s only pediatric surgery program with Level 1 verification from the American College of Surgeons (ACS); the state’s only magnetoencephalography (MEG) system for neurosurgical planning and cutting-edge research; and the state's only nationally recognized pediatric transport program. Arkansas Children’s Hospital is nationally ranked by U.S. News & World Report in seven pediatric specialties (2022—2023): Cancer, Cardiology & Heart Surgery, Diabetes & Endocrinology, Nephrology, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Pulmonology and Urology. Arkansas Children’s Northwest (ACNW), the first and only pediatric hospital in the Northwest Arkansas region, is a level IV pediatric trauma center. ACNW operates a 24-bed inpatient unit; a surgical unit with five operating rooms; outpatient clinics offering over 20 subspecialties; diagnostic services; imaging capabilities; occupational therapy services; and Northwest Arkansas' only pediatric emergency department, equipped with 30 exam rooms. Generous philanthropic and volunteer engagement has sustained Arkansas Children's since it began as an orphanage in 1912, and today ensures the system can deliver on its promise of unprecedented child health. To learn more, visit archildrens.org.
