Registered Nurse (RN) - Women's ICU - VFT/Knights - Winnie Palmer Hospital
About The Position
Orlando Health Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies is a specialized facility focused on women's and newborns' unique needs, offering comprehensive gynecological services, minimally invasive surgeries, obstetrics, and high-risk pregnancies. It is a "Magnet" recognized hospital for nursing excellence and certified in perinatal care. The hospital welcomes nearly 14,000 babies annually and boasts one of the largest neonatal intensive care units in the country. The Women’s Intensive Care Unit (WICU) operates as a Level III Perinatal Center, providing 24/7 comprehensive care for critically ill female patients in its five-bed unit. The WICU offers advanced hemodynamic monitoring, artificial airway and ventilator management, and obstetrical monitoring. Care is delivered by a multi-disciplinary team, including critical care intensivists and maternal-fetal medicine services, emphasizing quality patient/family care, education, and continuous improvement. The role of the Rapid Response Nurse (RRT) is crucial for patient assessment and stabilization through proactive and reactive rounding. This involves communication and collaboration with physicians and consultants, providing nursing support and education, and patient rescue. The RRT aims to reduce Code Blue 90s outside of ICUs, decrease harm events, minimize unplanned ICU admissions and re-admissions, and offer nursing support and education.
Requirements
- Graduate of an approved school of nursing.
- Meets all mandatory, developmental, and performance competency requirements for Orlando Health and unit/department
- Maintains current State of Florida RN license or valid eNLC multistate RN license
- Maintains current BLS/Healthcare Provider certification.
Nice To Haves
- ACLS, NRP, PALS, TNCC are required for certain areas. NRP required for Neonatal Intensive care Unit (NICU).
- Prefer 2 years experience in ICU/ICC or high risk OB.
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. This includes but is not limited to patient assessment, education, medication administration, treatments, and patient safety.
- Demonstrates competency in nursing skills and use of patient care/unit equipment as defined by unit/department-specific requisite skills.
- Prioritizes patient care in an ongoing manner in accordance with Evidence-Based Practice Standards of Care.
- Practices effective problem identification and resolution.
- Delegates tasks and duties to healthcare team members in accordance with the patient’s needs and the team member’s capabilities and qualifications.
- Communicates appropriate information regarding patient condition or unit concerns to other health care team members.
- Demonstrates caring practices by providing a compassionate and therapeutic environment for patients and their families.
- Demonstrates awareness of legal issues and patients’ rights.
- Collaborates with the education department and nursing leadership team to effectively transition and support new team members and/or students.
- Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA, and other federal, state, and local standards.
- Maintains compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedures
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
