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General Information
The Inpatient Float Pool provides a unique opportunity to work with a variety of pediatric patients in a variety of units. Within the Inpatient Float Pool, there are two subgroups: the Med/Surg Float Pool and the Critical Care Float Pool. We fill in staffing gaps wherever they occur, finding out where we are assigned to work a few hours before the start of each shift.
- Med/Surg Float Pool
- hires Staff Nurses, Nurse Techs, and Care Assistants
- covers the following units:
- 2 Henson
- 3 Henson
- 4 Henson
- 5 Henson
- 6 Henson
- 3 West
- 4 Sutherland
- 5 Sutherland
- Children's Mercy South Inpatient
- Low acuity patients in the ICN, PICU, and ED
- Critical Care Float Pool
- Hires Staff Nurses
- Covers the following units:
- Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
- Intensive Care Nursery (ICN)
- Emergency Department (ED)
- Med/Surg units listed above, if not needed in critical care areas
We are based at Children's Mercy Hospital Hill, Hospital Hill, 2401 Gillham Road, Kansas City, Missouri.
We also cover Children's Mercy South, 5808 West 110th Street, Overland Park, Kansas.
Nurses hired into the Med/Surg Float Pool must have a minimum of two years of nursing experience, with some of that experience in pediatrics. Nurses hired into the Critical Care Float Pool must have experience working in a critical care area (neonatal, PICU, or ED) or in our Med/Surg Float Pool. Both Missouri and Kansas nursing licensure must be maintained; CMHC reimburses for the second nursing license. PALS certification is required for all Float Pool Nurses. Nurses who join the Float Pool are adventuresome and looking for the opportunity to expand or maintain a broad pediatric nursing practice.
Minimum experience is not required for Nurse Techs and Care Assistants, but floating requires flexibility and a willingness to work with unfamiliar people in an unpredictable variety of areas. It is for the adventuresome!
Float Pool staff members are paid a differential for their commitment to floating.
Click here to learn more about the Inpatient Float Pool!
