Registered Nurse (RN) - Pre-Op & Discharge Holding

Registered Nurse, Advanced Care | Pacu | Pre/Post Op

Orlando Health Dr. P. Phillips is a "Best Regional Hospital" by U.S. News & World Report and selected as one of the "Best Places to Work in Healthcare" by Modern Healthcare. This award-winning, full-service medical/surgical facility has been serving the residents of southwest Orange County and Orlando's growing tourist population since 1985. With a highly qualified team of nurses, support staff, and physician specialists, our 285-bed facility provides combined expertise and advanced technology in numerous areas of specialty.

The onsite Team Member Wellness Center features a state-of-the-art fitness facility, a dedicated tranquility space, and wellness activitiesmaking it easy to recharge and get your workout in before or after your shift.

Top reasons to choose Orlando Health - Dr. P. Phillips Hospital include:

• Onsite state-of-the-art gym and wellness center
• All inclusive benefits (start day one)
• Forbes recognizes Orlando Health as a Best-In-State Employer
• Employee-centric

Responsibilities:

• 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.

Qualifications:

• Education/Training: Graduate of an approved school of nursing.
• 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: 1+ year of RN experience. Must have 1+ year of PACU, Pre Post-Op, or procedural experience.