Registered Nurse NICU
About The Position
As a NICU Registered Nurse, you facilitate communication and collaboration among the healthcare team and the patient’s family to meet the patient’s physical, emotional, and spiritual needs. You promote patient health, well-being, and safety through the nursing process, following patient care standards, guidelines, and the State Nurse Practice Act, while demonstrating accountability for relationship-based care and the organization’s mission. You assess patients’ physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs; develop and implement plans of care with the interdisciplinary team; provide therapeutic and diagnostic interventions; maintain confidential and accurate patient records; advocate for patient health, safety, and rights; and educate patients and families, evaluating the effectiveness of that teaching.
Requirements
- Associate degree in Nursing, nursing diploma, or equivalent by endorsement.
- RN license in the state of employment.
- One year of nursing experience in L&D, Mom/Baby, and any NICU.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree in Nursing.
Responsibilities
- Assess patients’ physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs through observation, interviews, and review of medical records and clinical data; evaluate responses and intervene to support optimal outcomes.
- Develop and implement patient plans of care, observe outcomes, and collaborate with the interdisciplinary team in accordance with nursing standards.
- Demonstrate competency in therapeutic and diagnostic interventions, including IVs, incision and wound care, medication administration, catheterization, and specimen collection.
- Maintain patient charts and records confidentially and thoroughly; document patient status, interventions, responses, and outcomes accurately and promptly.
- Use information technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate errors, and support decision-making.
- Promote, advocate for, and collaborate to protect each patient’s health, safety, and rights.
- Assess patient and family readiness and learning needs, provide education, and evaluate teaching effectiveness.
Benefits
- $20,000 sign-on bonus for new hires who meet eligibility requirements.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
