Transport Nurse Specialist, Clinical Nurse II, $15,000 Sign-On Bonus

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside.

Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Nursing and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state's future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland.

UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System's anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties.

For more information, visit www.umms.org.

Job Description

The Transport Nurse Specialist is a Registered Nurse with an expanded scope of practice who provides high acuity critical care and emergency ground / surface transportation for the following patient populations;

Stroke, STEMI, trauma, medical, surgical, cardiac, neurologic, high risk obstetrics, neonatal, and pediatric transport emergencies.

The transport registered nurse specialist works with physician medical directors and consultants to provide high acuity medical therapies and interventions.

The Transport registered nurse specialist functions under the authority of (1) Maryland ExpressCare clinical guidelines and (2) Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems (MIEMSS) protocols when appropriate.

The RN works closely with healthcare providers at sending and receiving facilities to articulate a comprehensive transport plan.

Finally, the scope of practice for the transport nurse specialists includes patients from all age groups. Maryland ExpressCare provides treatment for neonatal, pediatric, adult, and geriatric patients.

Qualifications

Education and Experience :

Transport nurses need a mechanism by which competence in the knowledge base is essential for safe, high-quality critical care transport nursing practice.

Required Upon Hire :

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing. BSN Preferred
• Current licensure in the State of Maryland as a Registered Nurse
• Minimum two years of relevant clinical work experience within intensive care settings. Per COMAR regulations associated with transport nurses, experience must be within the past five years.
• Active and valid certifications required in : in the following certifications required : Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
• Maintenance of 10 contact hours of education / year.
• Member of a professional organization.
• Critical Care Nurse Certification (CCRN) is required or must be obtained within one year of employment. Management may grant a six-month extension for special circumstances.

Additional Information

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