Air Care Flight Nurse - RN

Job Title

Orlando Health Air Care Team Nurse

Base Location: Leesburg, FL

Shift: Variable non-cadenced 24 hour shifts

Must be available for New Hire orientation which consist of Mon - Fri from 8am - 4pm the first week of hire.

Orlando Health is home to Central Florida's only Level One Trauma Center. Our Air Care Team responds to the scene, transports calls, and serves all Orlando Health hospitals, the team also provides assistance and support to other hospitals located throughout Florida based on medical necessity. Our Air Care Team treats each patient with efficiency and compassion. We facilitate an organized, multidisciplinary response system that helps patients return to their prior level of function and interaction within society. This continuum of care includes injury prevention, EMS and medical oversight of pre-hospital care, appropriate triage and transport, resuscitation and emergency care, surgical intervention, intensive and general acute care, rehabilitative services, behavioral health, social services, community re-integration plans, and medical care follow-up. Our Air Care Team is equipped with state-of-the-art technology to provide safe and reliable transport to our most critically ill patients.

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.
• Observes, monitors, and assesses patients' condition, recognizes, identifies, and interprets serious situations and calls Physician or takes preplanned emergency measures when Physician is not immediately available.
• Communicates appropriate information regarding patient condition or unit concerns to other health care team members.
• Demonstrates caring practices by providing a compassionate and therapeutic environment for patients and their families.
• Demonstrates awareness of legal issues and patients' rights.
• Monitors overall status of patients within area of responsibility and closely monitors status of seriously ill patients.
• Coordinates and/or participates in the delivery of patient care ensuring compliance with physician orders and established policies, procedures, and standards of practice.
• Serves as a resource supporting frontline team members and providers as appropriate.
• Performs direct patient care activities as required to meet operational needs.
• Interfaces with patients and families to enhance customer experience by conducting Nurse Leader rounds and investigating and responding to patient/family and physician complaints.
• Embraces, communicates, and promotes change and problem solving.
• Assesses equipment needs to ensure staff have the needed equipment for patient care, and they can appropriately utilize equipment.
• Maintains a regulatory ready environment of care.

Qualifications

Education/Training

• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing Degree (BSN) preferred.
• Graduate from an approved Paramedic Training Center.

Licensure/Certification

• Current licensure as a registered nurse in the State of Florida or Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC).
• Current unrestricted paramedic license in the state of Florida
• Maintain current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
• Maintain current Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)
• Maintain current Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
• Maintain current Trauma Nurse Core Course (TNCC) or ATCN Certification upon hire.
• Obtains and maintains ATCN in future as required by OH Trauma Program education requirements.
• Preferred NRP
• Required CFRN
• Preferred CEN
• Preferred CCRN
• Air Medical Crew Core Curriculum Course (AMCCC). Required within 6 months of hire.

Experience

• Three to Five years of acute care hospital experience in related area (emergency department, intensive care unit) preferred
• Pre-hospital experience preferred
• 1 year flight critical care Air Transport experience