Dialysis RN

Dialysis Registered Nurse - FULL-TIME Open!! Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida | Orlando

Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida is seeking a FULL-TIME Dialysis Registered Nurse to join our Renal Dialysis team. This role is ideal for experienced pediatric nurses seeking clinical complexity, strong team support, and opportunities for professional growth within a stable, mission-driven organization.

Nemours Children's Health is a nationally recognized nonprofit pediatric health system with a long, stable financial history and the backing of the Nemours Foundation. We are investing in our talent, expanding programs, and growing our Orlando campus to support children with complex medical needs. Our Orlando campus expansion is enhancing surgical capacity, specialty services, and advanced pediatric programs to meet the needs of Central Florida's rapidly growing population. This growth creates new opportunities for nurses to help shape programs, advance best practices, and deliver world-class pediatric cardiac care. Our culture encourages perseverance, teaching, collaboration, shared governance, and professional development.

The Registered Nurse implements the patient care delivery model for the patient and their family.

Clinical Judgment

• Utilize policies, procedures, guidelines, and reliable methods to make clinical practice decisions.
• Independently develop, implement, evaluate, and modify clinical practice matching formal knowledge with critical thinking and nursing skills.
• Collect and interpret complex patient data with clinical events to make clinical decisions to meet individual patient and family needs.
• Recognize and respond to the dynamic situation while sorting out extraneous detail and exercises clinical judgment based on an immediate grasp of the whole picture for the patient population of the assigned clinical area.
• Engage in multidisciplinary collaboration, proactively seek expert consultation, and delegate to other clinicians, as appropriate, while using evidence-based guidelines.

Clinical Inquiry

• Demonstrate knowledge seeking behaviors and identify clinical questions. Seek advice, resources, and/or education opportunities to improve patient care.
• Participate in the research process and implement changes in practice based upon the evidence.

Caring Practices

• Create a safe, compassionate, supportive, and therapeutic environment for patients, family, and Associates.
• Promote comfort and healing and prevent unnecessary suffering with vigilance, engagement, and responsiveness.
• Develop professional and trusting relationships that facilitate patient/family coping while maintaining appropriate boundaries.

Response to Diversity

• Recognize, appreciate, and incorporate differences into the provision of patient and family centered care, including cultural, spiritual, gender/gender identity, lifestyle, race, ethnicity, linguistic, socioeconomic status, age, developmental, and values.
• Demonstrate effective methods of communication as required to meet the patient and family health care literacy needs.
• Preserve and protect the confidentiality, autonomy, dignity, and rights of patient and families,
• Acknowledge and adapt to the organizational culture and healthcare environment.

Advocacy/ Moral Agency

• Advocate on behalf of patients, families, and Associates while promoting adherence to the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses.
• Act as resource for patients and families working towards resolution of ethical and moral issues. Initiate ethics consult when appropriate.
• Serve as a moral agent in identifying and help to resolve ethical and clinical concerns within and outside the clinical setting.

Collaboration

• Work with patients, families, and Associates in a way that respectfully promotes each person's contributions toward developing and achieving optimal patient and family goals across the continuum.
• Participate in team meetings and discussions regarding patient care and/or practice issues.
• Involve intra- and inter-professional work with colleagues and community.
• Participate in nursing/hospital governance, councils, committees, ad hoc teams and/or initiatives to improve clinical practice and patient care outcomes.

Systems Thinking

• Utilize appropriate resources to plan and provide nursing services that are safe, effective, and financially responsible.
• Develop, integrate, and apply strategies across the continuum of care that are driven by the unique needs and strengths of the patient and family.
• Contribute to the development and revision of standards of care policies and procedures.

Facilitation of Learning

• Identify areas of educational needs and facilitate formal and informal learning for patients, families, Associates, and the community.
• Assess patients and family's readiness to learn.
• Utilize patient teaching plans that incorporate evidence based practice and evaluate effectiveness.
• Seek out a mentor to facilitate individual professional growth.
• Serve as a mentor, coach, preceptor, based upon unit needs and individual preferences and/or abilities.

Job Requirements

• ASN required
• Active Florida or multi-state RN license, required
• National certification in area of clinical specialty (preferred)
• Minimum of 6 months of RN experience required 2 years of dialysis experience (peds experience preferred)

The Following Must Be Obtained Within 30 Days Or Hire

• American Heart Association BLS Health Care Provider
• American Heart Association PALS

Nemours Children's Health is an internationally recognized pediatric health system serving more than 1.7 million patient encounters each year. We deliver care across six states through two freestanding children's hospitals Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida along with a network of more than 80 primary, urgent, and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospital partnerships. Backed by the Nemours Foundation and Alfred I. duPont Trust, our $1.7B nonprofit system is dedicated to improving children's health through clinical care, research, education, advocacy, and prevention. Our Whole Child Health approach focuses equally on prevention and treatment, partnering with communities to help every child thrive. Inclusion and belonging guide our strategy and growth. We are committed to culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and fostering an environment where every associate, patient, and family feels supported and valued. Learn more at Nemours.org.