Registered Nurse - Waterford Lakes Free Standing Emergency Department - Day Shift - Part Time

Orlando Health•Orlando, FL

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Orlando Health’s Freestanding Emergency Department in Waterford Lakes, located at 11898 LAKE UNDERHILL RD ORLANDO, Florida 32825, is expanding its nursing team to meet the needs of the community. This facility, which opened in spring 2025, is the second busiest FSED in the Orlando Health system, averaging over 40 patient visits per day. The department offers 24/7/365 access to emergency medicine doctors, nurses, and clinical staff, along with on-site diagnostic imaging (CT scan, ultrasound, X-ray), respiratory therapy, a full-service laboratory, and 24/7 security. Orlando Health is committed to providing comprehensive benefits, including career-growing education programs, well-being services, and benefits that begin on day one. The organization emphasizes flexibility and aims to be a supportive workplace.

Requirements

Graduate of an approved school of nursing.
Maintains current State of Florida RN license or valid eNLC multistate RN license
Maintains current BLS/Healthcare Provider certification.
Maintains current ACLS certification.
1 year of recent RN ER/ED experience

Responsibilities

Demonstrates critical knowledge, skills, and judgment 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.
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.
Demonstrates awareness of legal issues and patients’ rights.
Participates and may lead unit level and/or organizational level committees of nursing practice and performance improvement.