Job description
Registered Nurse - NICU
Start Date: 11-09-2026
End Date: 02-08-2027
Contract Type: Travel Contract
Hours per Week: 36
Candidate Pay Rate: $70.70 per hour
About United Health Care Staffing
At United Health Care Staffing (UHC Staffing), we believe healthcare staffing should be more than just finding a job. We are here to connect amazing professionals with opportunities that make their careers exciting, rewarding, and meaningful. With us, you're not just signing up for a contract you are joining a team that's got your back, answers your calls, and maybe even cracks a joke or two to brighten your day. Think of us as the travel buddy who handles the logistics while you focus on what you do best helping people heal.
Education
- Trauma Level: 3
- Charting System: Cerner
- Unit Notes: - Unit: NICU - Level 3 NICU
- # beds: 4 beds in PICU (future state)
- NICU 21 beds
- Peds 8 beds(ped medsurg acuity)
- Certs: BLS, NRP
- PALS and STABLE preferred...
- Ratios: 1 to 1 and 1 to 3
- Peds 1 to1 or 1 to 4 (PICU 1 ot 1 or 1 to2 NICU 1to1 through 1 to 3 , ped unit 1 to 4 could be less
- EMR: Cerner
- Charge Nurse: NICU almost always
- Peds not always
- Nurse Aides: No aides
- Weekend Requirement: EOW
- Holidays: 2 major
- Scrub Color: Navy
- Tele: Phillips tele - not required to read them
- Vents: oscillators, draeger, cpap and high flow nasal cannula
- Hospitalist or Intensivist in house: neonataologist - not only on 24/7
- IV Team: no
- RT 24/7: Yes
- Pharmacy 24/7: Yes
- Call: Sometimes, low census (Standby)
- Shifts: 12's (7-7), self scheduling primarily
- Floating: NICU float to Nursery and Peds
- Mother Baby (not typical)only if they have that experience, lenient with ped expereince, level 3 NICU
- Floor specific orientation: NICU (2-3 shifts) Peds (2 shifts)
- Common diagnosis / Types of patients: 23 weeks and bove, cooling-expreience preferred, feeders/growers, no ecmolevel 3 or above for experience, must be comfortabel with high frequency oscilattors and vents
- Additional Notes: 2 years experinece or more, previous travel experience is not required.
- Years of Experience: 2
- Shift Notes: 7p-7a, EOW first to float
- Specialty: NICU
- Start Date: 2026-11-09
- End Date: 2027-02-08
- Created Date: 2026-10-12
- Required Hours/Week: 36
- Start Time: 19:00
- End Time: 07:00
- Positions: 3
- Short Description: RN (Registered Nurse)
- Contract Type:
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Ready to start your next adventure as a Registered Nurse - NICU? Let's get you moving forward!
Send your resume to [email protected] or call us at 408-441-9200 today.
Why UHCS
Weekly or bi-weekly pay, medical/dental/vision, a SIMPLE IRA with employer contribution, tests paid on qualifying assignments with payroll deduction available, and one recruiter who stays with you for the whole assignment — reachable after hours. Every placement is credentialed to Joint Commission standards, so your packet is accepted the first time.