For any NH nurses looking for a pedi/women's & children's job :)

Published Jun 25, 2011

945 Posts

Specializes in Pediatrics, ER.

Parkland Medical Center in Derry, NH is hiring on pedi (mostly nights). They pay for you to become NRP and PALS certified. Their pedi census is low but they recently started a pilot program for nurses to flex to the pediatric ED when the floor is closed. The floor nurses are orienting now and in the process of decorating the pedi rooms down there. The ED has a high pedi census, and if a patient is admitted you bring them up to the floor and continue to be their nurse up there. It's great. You also have the option to learn postpartum and float over there. You ARE required to flex to other units if needed when the floor is closed, but you can opt to be helping hands (starting IVs, taking vitals, doing a transfusion, being a sitter, administering meds, helping with admissions) instead of taking an assignment until you feel comfortable because if the pedi floor needs to open you have to be able to drop everything and go because the ED is not allowed to hold patients. The pedi problems that come to the floor include blood transfusions for anemia, appendectomies, orthopedic surgery, GI/dehydration, respiratory, newborns needing phototherapy, and your other basic community hospital peds problems. You also start your own IVs. The floor is a women's and children's unit, so you get hysterectomies a few times a week, some antepartum issues like hyperemesis gravidarum requiring TPN, perioperative female patients (mostly cholecystectomies, lysis of adhesions, and appies). You also finish recovering stable post-op kids and female adults after hours. The average census is 1:3 (I know!!) You get a long orientation (as long as it takes), because you're the ONLY pedi nurse on the floor and you need to feel comfortable being the pedi resource. PMC also pays for you to becoming a certified pediatric nurse through ANCC. I love working here. Message me if you want anymore info. I'm not marketing for them, just a satisfied RN who works there.