Graduate Nurse, Advanced Care

Orlando Health•Orlando, FL

14h•Onsite

About The Position

Administers patient care in an area within a hospital or inpatient setting where patients have advanced illnesses or injuries that routinely requires timely, intense, and complex care to stabilize and support their medical conditions. These areas require a lower caregiver-to patient ratio and highly trained team members with advanced skills.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
Authorized by the Florida Board of Nursing (BON) to practice as a graduate nurse and has received a “Graduate Nurse” letter.
Authorized to take the NCLEX by the examination vendor.
Meets all mandatory, developmental, and performance competency requirements for Orlando Health and the unit/department.
Must obtain licensure as a Registered Nurse in the State of Florida or Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) multistate RN license within three (3) months of placement in this job.
Maintains current BLS/Healthcare Provider certification.

Nice To Haves

ACLS, NRP, PALS, TNCC are required for certain areas. NRP is required for the Neonatal Intensive care Unit (NICU).

Responsibilities

Administers bedside patient care in a hospital or inpatient setting under the supervision of a preceptor, leader, and/or charge nurse.
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, respond with confidence, and adapt to rapidly changing patient conditions.
Identifies and prioritizes information to take immediate and decisive evidence-based, patient focused actions.
Monitors and adjusts specialized equipment used on patients, 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’ conditions, recognizes, identifies, and interprets serious situations and calls the Physician or takes preplanned emergency measures when the Physician is not immediately available.
Assesses patient’s needs and develops/revises individualized plans of care based on their needs and responses.
Evaluates patients’ progress toward attaining expected outcomes.
Respects diversity by building respectful relationships with all team members and customers.
Functions as an advocate for patients and their families.
Demonstrates advanced knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served on their assigned unit/ department.