Pediatric Registered Nurse PICU

Job Description:

Join Our Pediatric ICU Team at Primary Children’s Hospital

Are you ready to make a difference in the lives of critically ill children and their families? At Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, we’re looking for passionate, driven, and compassionate nurses to join our Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)—a nationally recognized, Magnet-designated Level I Pediatric Trauma Center serving the Intermountain West.

Why Choose Us?

Our 28-bed PICU is a fast-paced, highly specialized environment where we care for infants, children, and teens facing the most complex and critical health challenges—from trauma and transplants to ECMO and respiratory failure. Our reach spans across Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Nevada, Idaho, and beyond—making us a vital lifeline for families across the region.

What Makes Our PICU Special?

• Unmatched Acuity & Autonomy: With an average nurse-to-patient ratio of 1:1.2, you’ll have the time and support to provide truly individualized, high-quality care.
• Collaborative Excellence: Work side-by-side with a world-class team of physicians, advanced practice providers, respiratory therapists, and critical care techs who value your voice and expertise.
• A Culture of Learning: Our robust education program spans 3–5 years and includes didactic learning, research, projects, and both oral and written evaluations. You’ll gain advanced knowledge in neurotrauma, respiratory, cardiovascular, and metabolic care—setting you apart as a leader in pediatric critical care.

Conditions We Treat Include:

• Multiple trauma
• Complex surgical recovery
• Pre- and post-solid organ transplants
• Respiratory failure (Jet, Oscillator, VDR)
• Metabolic disorders
• Multi-organ system failure
• Sepsis
• ECMO (VA and VV)
• CRRT

Who We’re Looking For:

We’re seeking nurses who thrive in high-acuity settings and are committed to lifelong learning. If you’re looking for a place where your skills will grow and your contributions will matter—this is it.

Essential Functions

• Assess: Performs appropriate assessment of physical, social, and psychological status (including cognitive, communicative, and developmental skills as appropriate). Seeks and evaluates information acquired from other members of interdisciplinary team: patient, family, physician, non-nursing disciplines, support staff, others.
• Plan: Uses assessment information and critical thinking skills to collaboratively develop individualized plan of care. Actively seeks patient, family, team, and physician involvement to develop plan of care including needed education. Collaboratively plans and prepares patients for further support needs once the current episode of care outcomes are met (i.e., teaching, referrals, and follow-up).
• Implement: Directs the interdisciplinary care team via delegation, coordination, and collaboration as appropriate. Provides or delegates care consistent with plan of care, guidelines of care and professional licensure provisions. Demonstrates the ability to set priorities and to coordinate and organize patient care delivery through effectively managing time, supplies, and resources.
• Evaluate: Evaluates patient response to interventions through review of achievement of goals, clinical outcomes, patient, and family satisfaction. Revises plan of care as indicated and reassesses changes as appropriate.
• Professionalism: Promotes nursing profession and participate in development of others.
  Integrates legal and ethical standards into practice, complies with regulatory standards, practices within scope of licensure, provides accurate & timely documentation, and understands legal implications of care delivery.

Skills

• Patient Care Delivery
• Nursing Fundamentals
• Interdisciplinary Teams
• Documentations
• Professional Etiquette
• Accountability
• Patient Care Coordination
• Communication
• Patient Evaluation
• Critical Thinking

Full time, 36 hours a week, 12 hour shifts

Start Date: 3/2/2026

Benefits eligible

Minimum Qualifications

• Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in state of practice. Valid compact licenses must be transferred to the state of practice within 60 days of the start of employment.
• Bachelor's degree in nursing (BSN). Education must be obtained from an accredited institution. Degree will be verified or obtain within four (4) years of their hire date.
• Basic Life Support Certification (BLS) for healthcare providers.

Preferred Qualifications

• One or more years of RN work experience (if you are applying and have 12 months of less of RN work experience, please apply on new grad posting)
• Pediatric RN work experience
• Critical Care RN work experience

Physical Requirements

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.
• Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc.
• Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
• Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment. This includes pushing/pulling gurneys and portable equipment, including heavy items. Often required to navigate crowded and busy rooms (full of equipment, power cords on the floor, etc.)
• May be expected to stand in a stationary position for an extended period of time.
• For roles requiring driving: Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.

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The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.

Learn more about our comprehensive benefits package here.

Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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