Registered Nurse - Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children

Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children provides compassionate care to children, teenagers, and young adults in Central Florida. Located on the downtown Orlando campus, it includes 156 licensed beds for specialized pediatric care and the Bert Martin's Champions for Children Emergency Department & Trauma Center. The hospital offers state-of-the-art pediatric services by a comprehensive staff that includes pediatric subspecialty physicians and a nursing team recognized for nursing excellence and high-quality patient care. It has earned national recognition for 12 consecutive years as a "Best Children's Hospitals" by U.S. News & World Report and was included in the IBM Watson Health 100 Top Hospitals list for 2021.

Orlando Health is part of the Orlando Health system of care, which includes award-winning hospitals and ERs, specialty institutes, urgent care centers, primary care practices, and outpatient facilities that span Florida's east to west coasts and beyond. The organization's 27,000+ team members honor a 100-year legacy by providing professional and compassionate care to patients, families, and communities.

Top Reasons to Choose Orlando Health

• Competitive Pay: Evening, nights, and weekend shift differentials offered for qualifying positions.
• All Inclusive Benefits: Student loan repayment, tuition reimbursement, back up elder and childcare, pet insurance, and more for full time and part time employees.
• Employee-centric: Orlando Health has been selected as one of the 2020 "Best Places to Work in Healthcare" by Modern Healthcare.
• Committed to Community: Orlando Health provides more than $450 million in total value to the community in the form of charity care, community benefit programs and services, community building activities and more.
• Forbes Recognizes Orlando Health as a Best-In-State Employer: Forbes has named Orlando Health as one of America's Best-In-State Employers for 2021.

Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children Pediatric Intensive Care Unit is seeking an Advance Registered Nurse. 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.

Shift: (VFT, Night)

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.
• Assesses patient's needs and develops/revises an individualized plan of care based on patient needs and responses.
• Evaluates the patient's progress toward attaining expected outcomes.
• Respects diversity by building respectful relationships with all team members and customers.
• Functions as a patient and family advocate.
• Demonstrates advanced knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served on his or her assigned unit/department.
• Serves as a preceptor, charge nurse, unit educator, and/or nurse clinician.
• Communicates and collaborates with medical staff and interdisciplinary team to effectively plan and manage the unit/department.
• Serves as a role model for staff and supports the hospital and nursing department's goals and strategies.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span, assesses the data reflective of the patient's status, and interprets the necessary information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his or her age specific needs.
• Coordinates the care and delegates as appropriate to other team members on a defined group of patients.
• Documents patient care in a knowledgeable, skillful, and consistent manner meeting all required and regulatory standards.
• Demonstrates competency in nursing skills and use of patient care/unit equipment as defined by unit/department-specific requisite skills.
• Prioritizes patient care in an ongoing manner in accordance with Evidence-Based Practice Standards of Care.
• Practices effective problem identification and resolution.
• Delegates tasks and duties to healthcare team members in accordance with the patient's needs and the team member's capabilities and qualifications.
• 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.
• Collaborates with the education department and nursing leadership team to effectively transition and support new team members and/or students.
• Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA, and other federal, state, and local standards.
• Maintains compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedures.

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 (1) years of experience as a Registered Nurse in an acute care setting.