Great NICU's/transport teams

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Hi everyone,

I've been a NICU nurse for about 2 years 3 months and have decided that I want to eventually do transport nursing. The problem is that my experience is limited to mostly level 2 with only occasional level 3. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what hospitals I can apply to where I can get some consistent, quality level three experience that also has a transport program? I'd really like it to be in an interesting city as well.

So far, I'm looking at Boston Children's, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Denver Childrens. Any other ideas?

Thanks so much!

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What about Children's Hospital of Philadelphia? They are a level IV NICU with a great transport team.

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Specializes in Maternal - Child Health.

Chicago has a number of excellent NICU's with transport teams. I would recommend Rush, Northwestern and/or Children's Memorial.

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Would these places do Peds in general transports or do they specifically have Neonatal transport? I always assumed you'd have to do everything in a transport team.

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Hi everyone,

I've been a NICU nurse for about 2 years 3 months and have decided that I want to eventually do transport nursing. The problem is that my experience is limited to mostly level 2 with only occasional level 3. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what hospitals I can apply to where I can get some consistent, quality level three experience that also has a transport program? I'd really like it to be in an interesting city as well.

So far, I'm looking at Boston Children's, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Denver Childrens. Any other ideas?

Thanks so much!

I just started at Mass General Hospital (in Boston) in their NICU and they have an excellent transport team. Children's Hospital and them are the only 2 Boston hospitals that do neonatal ECMO and MGH is the only one that does it in their NICU!

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Specializes in NICU/Neonatal transport.

Columbus Children's also does ECMO/surgery/you name it, we do it.

Our transport team is also top notch.

While technically they do occasionally transport other peds pts., predominantly, they only do our babies. They are even looking to get a separate transport team for the NICU, so maybe transport could help occasionally with other, older kids. (We usually keep them so busy, they have no time for anyone else!)

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Specializes in Peds/Neo CCT,Flight, ER, Hem/Onc.

There are actually several top notch teams in Ohio (Cleveland, Akron, Columbus and Cincinnati). All of these hospitals are Level IV, all do neonatal ECMO and most do Peds ECMO as well. Most teams do both neo/peds. Some have supplemental NICU teams who do the "in town" transports. Columbus does a larger percentage of neonatal but they do their fair share of peds as well. Akron does about half and half (app. 1800-2000 trips per year). Many of Cleveland's adult hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Childrens and UHC has Rainbow Babies and Children) have NICU's attached so I'm not sure of their transport numbers. Pretty much any team anywhere, especially those from teaching hospitals, are going to be good. The training and requirements are extremely rigorous.

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