Registered Nurse, (VFT, Night) Peds PICU - PICU - Pediatric Intensive Care

Company: Orlando Health
Location: Orlando
Posted on: March 19, 2023

Job Description:

Registered Nurse, (VFT, Night) Peds PICUPosition Summary

Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children

Providing compassionate care to the children, teenagers and young adults of Central Florida for more than 30 years, Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children is located on the downtown Orlando campus and includes 156 licensed beds for specialized care for children as well as the Bert Martin's Champions for Children Emergency Department & Trauma Center, offering trauma care for children as the pediatric site of the Orlando Health ORMC Level One Trauma Center. State-of-the-art pediatric services are provided by a comprehensive staff that includes pediatric subspecialty physicians and a nursing team that is "Magnet" recognized for nursing excellence and high-quality patient care. The hospital also has earned national recognition for 12 consecutive years as a "Best Children's Hospitals" by U.S. News & World Report and was included, together with Orlando Health ORMC, in the IBM Watson Health 100 Top Hospitals - list for 2021.

The Registered Nurse Advanced Care administers patient care in an area in a hospital or inpatient setting where patients have an advanced illness or injury that routinely requires timely, intense, and complex care to stabilize and support the patient's medical condition. These areas require a lower caregiver-to-patient ratio and highly trained team members with advanced skills.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions

* Demonstrates critical knowledge, skills, and judgement to care for patients requiring complex assessment and therapies, high intensity interventions, and high-level continuous nursing vigilance.
* Utilizes information and assessment data to anticipate and respond with confidence and adapt to rapidly changing patient conditions.
* Identifies and prioritizes information to take immediate and decisive evidence-based, patient focused action.
* Monitors and adjusts specialized equipment used on patients, and interprets and records electronic displays, such as intracranial pressures, central venous pressures, pulmonary artery pressures, and cardiac rhythms from cardiac monitors, respirators, ventilators, oxygen pumps, etc.
* Responds to life-saving situations based on nursing standards and protocol.
* needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his or her age specific needs.

Other Related Functions

* The professional nurse contributes to the knowledge and skills of others, and the continuous improvement of the quality of health care practice and organizational outcomes
* Participates and may lead unit level and/or organizational level committees of nursing practice and performance improvement.
* Participates in department and organizational peer review, mentoring, and coaching regarding professional practice or role performance.
* Practices efficient use of supplies and maintains a clean, safe, and organized work area.
* Attends staff development in-services, department meetings, and/or nursing committee meetings.
* Partners with the nursing leadership team to identify professional development needs.
* Assumes responsibility for one's own professional development and continuing education.
* Performs all other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education/Training

* Graduate of an approved school of nursing.
* Meets all mandatory, developmental, and performance competency requirements for Orlando Health and unit/department

Licensure/Certification

* Maintains current licensure as a registered nurse in the State of Florida or Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC)
* Maintains current BLS/Healthcare Provider certification
* ACLS, NRP, PALS, TNCC are required for certain areas.

Experience

* At least two (2) years of experience as a Registered Nurse in an acute care setting.



Education/Training

* Graduate of an approved school of nursing.
* Meets all mandatory, developmental, and performance competency requirements for Orlando Health and unit/department

Licensure/Certification

* Maintains current licensure as a registered nurse in the State of Florida or Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC)
* Maintains current BLS/Healthcare Provider certification
* ACLS, NRP, PALS, TNCC are required for certain areas.

Experience

* At least two (2) years of experience as a Registered Nurse in an acute care setting.



Essential Functions

* Demonstrates critical knowledge, skills, and judgement to care for patients requiring complex assessment and therapies, high intensity interventions, and high-level continuous nursing vigilance.
* Utilizes information and assessment data to anticipate and respond with confidence and adapt to rapidly changing patient conditions.
* Identifies and prioritizes information to take immediate and decisive evidence-based, patient focused action.
* Monitors and adjusts specialized equipment used on patients, and interprets and records electronic displays, such as intracranial pressures, central venous pressures, pulmonary artery pressures, and cardiac rhythms from cardiac monitors, respirators, ventilators, oxygen pumps, etc.
* Responds to life-saving situations based on nursing standards and protocol.
* needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his or her age specific needs.

Other Related Functions

* The professional nurse contributes to the knowledge and skills of others, and the continuous improvement of the quality of health care practice and organizational outcomes
* Participates and may lead unit level and/or organizational level committees of nursing practice and performance improvement.
* Participates in department and organizational peer review, mentoring, and coaching regarding professional practice or role performance.
* Practices efficient use of supplies and maintains a clean, safe, and organized work area.
* Attends staff development in-services, department meetings, and/or nursing committee meetings.
* Partners with the nursing leadership team to identify professional development needs.
* Assumes responsibility for one's own professional development and continuing education.
* Performs all other duties as assigned.

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