AirCare Flight Nurse, Ground Transports, PRN, Winston-Salem
JOB SUMMARY: Transports patients from referral facilities and EMS to the Medical Center. Provides education of referral hospital staff members, community support, nursing care, performs advanced practice skills, collaborates with medical control officer and other multidisciplinary team members to provide age/developmentally appropriate care to patients being transported. Follows North Carolina Office of Emergency Medical Services (NCOEMS) guidelines.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE: Graduation from an accredited School of Nursing with two years recent critical care pediatric/neonatal nursing for BCH Transport. ACLS/PALS and two years emergency department/ICU experience for Adult Transport preferred.
LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION, and/or REGISTRATION: Registered Nurse licensure from the State of North Carolina Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) required Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) required within 1 year of hire for Adult Critical Care, Adult ED Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) required within 1 year of hire for Network ED, Peds ED, PICU and NICU, and other areas per unit guidelines.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 1. Ensures patient care standards to optimize patient outcomes. 2. Creates an environment that meets patient and family psychosocial and physical needs to allay anxiety and promote recovery. 3. Promotes a safe and supportive environment during transport for all passengers in the transport vehicle - patient, crew, and drivers. 4. Practices professional and courteous conduct in accordance with the key values of the institution by ensuring the continuous quality of professional services. 5. Conserves and maximizes utilization of resources.
SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS: Strong oral, written, and listening communication skills Ability to provide direct and indirect patient care
WORK ENVIRONMENT: Subject to highly stressful conditions involving multiple personnel and critically ill, injured patients, occasionally deceased or dying patients Potential exposure to infectious disease Moderate to high noise environment Physically demanding during transport role Handles emergency or crisis situations PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: 0% 35% 65% to to to 35% 65% 100% N/A Activity X Standing X Walking X Sitting X Bending X Reaching with arms X Finger and hand dexterity X Talking X Hearing X Seeing Lifting, carrying, pushing and or pulling: X 20 lbs. maximum X 50 lbs. maximum X 100 lbs. maximum
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s two main components are an integrated clinical system – anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.
Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.
This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.
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