Registered Nurse (RN) - Pediatric ICU Augsuta

Wellstar Health System

About The Position

The RN Clinical Nurse is a proactive member of an interdisciplinary team responsible for providing individualized, high-quality, safe patient care to pediatric patients and supporting their families and significant others. The nurse works in a clinical environment administered by Nurse Managers and other leaders, with practice guided by Wellstar’s Shared Governance Model, Professional Practice Model, evidence-based practice, research, and organizational values. The role upholds the Georgia Professional Nurse Practice Act, the American Nurses Association’s Scope of Practice and Code of Ethics, system policies, and service excellence goals. The nurse manages complex and high-acuity or critical pediatric patients, providing culturally and developmentally appropriate care and monitoring patients at least hourly. Clinical duties include respiratory support and device management, cardiac rhythm analysis, trending vital signs, titrating medications, bedside point-of-care testing, assisting with procedures, supporting or leading pediatric codes, and performing sterile dressing changes. The position also involves interdisciplinary collaboration, documentation, quality improvement, professional development, mentoring, evidence-based practice, research utilization, and effective use of resources. This is a full-time night position scheduled for 36 hours per week (three 12-hour shifts). The role is sign-on bonus eligible.

Requirements

Associate degree in Nursing or nursing diploma.
Current RN license: multi-state compact RN or single-state registered nurse license.
Current BLS certification: BLS-I, BLS, or American Red Cross BLS.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor of Science in Nursing.

Responsibilities

Perform the nursing process, including assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation, using evidence-based practice and critical thinking.
Coordinate individualized patient care through effective partnerships and provide relationship-based, patient-centered care adapted to cultural and population-specific needs.
Partner with patients and significant others, keep them informed, and make patient goals central to the plan of care.
Manage and oversee care for complex, high-acuity, and critical pediatric patients, including at least hourly assessment and monitoring.
Provide culturally and developmentally appropriate direct clinical care.
Manage ventilators, BiPAP, CPAP, and oscillators.
Assess and analyze cardiac rhythms and trend continuous vital signs, including cardiac rhythm, respiratory rate, oxygen saturation, blood pressure, and arterial line waveforms.
Manage and appropriately titrate vasoactive, sedation, and insulin infusions.
Perform and analyze bedside point-of-care testing, including iSTAT and ABG/VBG tests.
Assist with bedside procedures, including sedated lumbar punctures, arterial line and CVL/PICC placement, intubation, and chest tube placement.
Support and/or lead pediatric codes using the PALS algorithm.
Perform sterile dressing changes.
Coordinate and document safe, high-quality care, including timely documentation and interdisciplinary communication.
Participate in performance improvement, research and research utilization, and shared governance; initiate or lead related activities as appropriate.
Complete initial and ongoing competency assessments and required mandatory and population-specific education.
Serve as a preceptor and/or mentor to nurses, staff, or students, modeling professional nursing practice and supporting a healthy work environment.
Promote evidence-based practice, nursing research, and performance improvement, including participation in value analysis of patient care products.
Uphold organizational policies, clinical competencies, legal and regulatory requirements, accreditation standards, and patient safety goals.
Participate in data collection, raise relevant clinical questions, and consult experts and appropriate evidence-based resources.
Plan for patients’ care across the care continuum and contribute to the development of protocols and procedures when called upon or through self-initiation.
Support efficient and effective use of human and material resources.
Perform other duties as assigned and comply with Wellstar policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.