Registered Nurse 2 CC - PICU - Nights

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

21d•Onsite

About The Position

Join a premier, 42-bed regional referral epicenter delivering world-class critical care to pediatric patients from birth to young adulthood. As a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit nurse here, you will care for the highest-acuity patients from Tennessee and surrounding states. This is an environment built for elite clinicians who thrive on clinical complexity, rapid pacing, and family-centered advocacy. We do what is right for the patient in the moment. Our acuity is high and we regularly face the profound reality of pediatric loss. We ensure you never walk that path alone. We protect our team's emotional well-being through strong teamwork, robust support staff, and monthly compassionate caregiver support meetings facilitated by dedicated counselors and ethics staff to celebrate the wins, mourn the losses and ask the difficult questions.

Requirements

LIC-Registered Nurse - Licensure-Others
Relevant Work Experience
Graduate of an approved discipline specific program
Clinical Thinker: Thrives in a highly motivated, positive, and technically demanding environment.
Team Player: Values collaborative, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration at the bedside.
Resilient & Empathetic: navigates emotional challenges while caring for patients and supporting families.
Care Planning (Novice): Demonstrates ability to anticipate resource needs, identify distinct tasks, set priorities, schedule activities, meet deadlines, and organize work within areas of direct responsibility. Competently handles multiple assignments often simultaneously by prioritizing work into manageable and measurable units. Ability to adapt to changes to patient care and area needs with minimal disruption and loss of productivity. Follows up to assure problems and issues are resolved.
Nursing Patient Education (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency in providing patient education in practical applications of moderate difficulty.
Nursing Patient Assessment & Evaluation (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate the ability to assess and evaluate patients in practical applications of moderate difficulty. Conducts primary care patient interviews and physical examinations. Demonstrates sufficient acumen to recognize problems, ask questions and to contact the patient's primary care provider and other members of the healthcare team. Has experience in gathering pertinent clinical data that aid in referral, treatment, or other primary care pathways.
Evidence-Based Practice (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully search for evidence to answer clinical questions. Generally works under the direction of others while accomplishing assignments.

Responsibilities

Provide Elite Critical Care: Manage complex 1:1 or 1:2 patient assignments.
Treat Diverse Pathologies: Care for Level 1 trauma, major burns, post-op liver/kidney transplants, advanced neurological and respiratory conditions and pediatric patients with multiple, complex diagnoses.
Manage High-Velocity Throughput: coordinate multiple admissions and targeted transfers
Collaborate in Real-Time: Partner directly with on-unit, 24/7 medical teams of Attendings, Fellows, Residents, and Nurse Practitioners.
Collaborates in establishing the plan of care, coordinates and implements care delivery while anticipating patient care needs across the continuum.
Analyzes comprehensive information pertinent to the patient's care and management to determine nursing diagnosis.
Continually utilizes the nursing process to evaluate patient's progress towards goals and applies appropriate interventions to ensure effective outcomes.
Employs strategies to promote health and a safe and healthy environment.