Registered Nurse Transition Newborn Nursery

Registered Nurse Transition Newborn Nursery

Strong staffing support when it matters most. Technology and tools that streamline patient monitoring and communication to help you work more efficiently. Robust supply chains to keep you fully equipped. Ongoing clinical education to improve your skills. As a Registered Nurse at UCF Lake Nona Hospital, you'll have all the staffing support, technology and resources you need to deliver safe, high-quality careso you can focus on what you do best.

Job Summary and Qualifications

We are seeking a Transition Newborn Nursery RN to join our healthcare team. The Registered Nurse coordinates and delivers high quality, patient-centered care in accordance with the nature and specific requirements of the department, and consistent with the scope and standards of practice for the relevant state and specialty. In collaboration with medical providers and other members of the care team, the RN provides individualized, comprehensive, and compassionate care using established nursing models such as "Assess, Perform, Teach, and Manage." The RN serves as an advocate for patients/families/caregivers and models a commitment to the organization's vision/mission/values to support an unparalleled patient experience and clinical outcomes that contribute to overall departmental performance.

In this role you will:

• Collect comprehensive data pertinent to the patient's health or situation
• Advocate for patients as part of the interdisciplinary team
• Identify expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the patient and the situation
• Ensure effective care and use of time, supplies, and equipment.
• Educate patients regarding their medications, procedure and treatments, providing patients and their families with support throughout their stay.
• Assigns initial Apgars and facilitates skin-to-skin bonding for a minimum of 1 hour
• Assists with breastfeeding or feeding choices during the first hour and beyond prior to moving to M/B.
• Assesses and re-assesses the newborn(s) respiratory and airway support using neonatal resuscitation program guidelines, thermoregulation, and metabolic stability as appropriate.
• Develops care plans that promote, facilitate, and maintain newborn wellness.
• Provides newborn care at the bedside while promoting skin to skin, breastfeeding, bonding and transition support.
• Administers medications as needed, provides neonatal abstinence scoring and urine/meconium collection as needed, as well as, blood glucose and Sa02 monitoring, lab work.
• Implements appropriate patient care interventions, and evaluates patient care interventions to ensure appropriate level of care is provided.
• Communicates effectively with other departments in an effort to resolve issues ensuring efficient and optimal patient care outcomes.
• Acts as mentor to Labor and Delivery & Mother-baby Nurses as the relief to transition care during busier times.
• Ensures that physician orders for the NB are noted and correctly transcribed.
• During adoption follows maternal requests for STS and bonding. Follows the guide of the delivering mom in allowing the adoptive parents the same experience.
• Surrogacy adoption is also given the opportunity for STS bonding.

Job Requirements:

• Florida RN license and/or approved multistate RN license required. Compact license holders have 60 days to obtain the Florida license after relocation.
• 1 year of RN experience within Women's Services PreferredNursery, L&D, NICU
• BSN is preferred
• Neonate Resuscitate must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
• Associate Degree, or Registered Nurse Diploma
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support, or ACLS Instructor must be obtained within 4 months of employment start date
• Basic Cardiac Life Support, or BCLS Instructor must be obtained before employment start date
• STABLE certification within 6 months
• NIH Stroke Scale within 30 days

Benefits

UCF Lake Nona Hospital, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

HCA Florida UCF Lake Nona Hospital is located in the southern Orlando suburb of Lake Nona, known as Medical City. We are a newly opened hospital. Our hospital provides full-service healthcare to Osceola County and surrounding communities. We offer a wide range of specialties including 24/7 emergency care, women's care, and comprehensive surgical services, including robotic surgery. We are home to the Advanced Imaging Center and a Family Birthing Unit. We are committed to patient-centered care.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

Nurses play a pivotal role and are the backbone of healthcare delivery. At HCA Healthcare, we are dedicated to ensuring nurses have necessary tools and resources to provide world-class patient care, advocating for the profession and helping to shape the future of nursing.

Sammie Mosier, DHA, MA, BSN, NE-BC

Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Executive, HCA Healthcare

If growth and continued learning is important to you, we encourage you to apply for our Registered Nurse Transition Newborn Nursery opening. Our team will promptly review your application. Highly qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Unlock the possibilities apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.