About This Position
Bring your neonatal nursing expertise to a 13-week Registered Nurse contract in Apple Valley, CA. This day-shift opportunity offers 36 guaranteed hours each week supporting newborns across a range of care needs.
Position Details
- Role: Registered Nurse (RN - General)
- Specialty: NICU RN
- Location: Apple Valley, CA
- Assignment length: 13 weeks
- Start date: August 25, 2026
- Schedule: Day shift, three 12-hour shifts, 6:00–18:30
- Guaranteed hours: 36 per week
Responsibilities
- Provide nursing care for neonates across gestational age groups, including under 24–28 weeks, 29–34 weeks, and over 34 weeks.
- Care for patients experiencing respiratory failure and follow infection precautions, including isolation procedures and neonatal sepsis workups.
- Monitor patient hemodynamic status using unit telemetry and support invasive monitoring as needed.
- Deliver neonatal emergency care and carry out medication administration using appropriate dosage calculations.
- Document patient care accurately and contribute to safe, coordinated care.
Requirements
- Certifications: BLS and NRP Advanced are required. NRP is accepted if you are willing to obtain NRP Advanced before the assignment begins.
- Required clinical experience: therapeutic hypothermia using a cooling blanket; Vapotherm; chest tube management; nitric oxide (INO); and administration of conscious sedation.
- Required care settings and experience: attending high-risk deliveries, Mother/Baby, NICU III, and NICU IV.
- Required specialty experience: gastroschisis/omphalocele and insulin administration.
- Additional skill: PICC line management.
- IV therapy and access: administration of blood and blood products; arterial line management; central line blood draws; central line and implanted line care; starting and maintaining IVs; UAC (umbilical arterial catheter); and UVC (umbilical vein catheter).
- Medication and emergency care: anti-seizure medications; antibiotics and antivirals; IV vasopressors; steroids; and surfactants.
- Professional and clinical topics: APGAR scoring; developmental care; patient/family teaching; phlebotomy; and thermoregulation.
- Neurologic care: assisting with lumbar punctures; neonatal abstinence syndrome; and seizure disorders.
- Additional work settings: level 1 nursery.
- Endocrine and metabolic care: blood glucose monitoring; hyperbilirubinemia; and phototherapy.
- Gastrointestinal care: bottle, breast, and gavage feedings; breastfeeding support and handling expressed breast milk; and NEC.
Compensation & Why Quick2Hire
Pay is $58–$65 per hour. Quick2Hire provides a dedicated recruiter throughout your assignment and reliable weekly pay. Per diem shifts are also available for added flexibility.
Experience
- At least 2 years of RN experience. Candidates with less than 2 years may be considered for screening if they have Level IV NICU experience.
- Experience with a 1:2–3 patient ratio is required.
- Epic charting experience is required.
- Community hospital experience is required.
- Travel experience is required. Candidates with 2 or more years of NICU experience may be screened without prior travel experience; candidates with less than 2 years of NICU experience are not eligible for screening without travel experience.
