RN- Float Pool

The Nemours Foundation • Orlando, FL

10h • Onsite

About The Position

Nemours is hiring a Registered Nurse for its Staffing Resource Float Pool at Nemours Children’s Hospital in Orlando, Florida. The position is part of a 100-bed pediatric hospital and involves providing professional nursing care to patients and their families. The RN implements the patient care delivery model and uses nursing knowledge, clinical judgment, critical thinking, and evidence-based practice to assess, plan, provide, and evaluate individualized care.

The role includes making clinical decisions based on complex patient data, responding to changing patient situations, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, seeking expert consultation, and delegating appropriately. The RN creates a safe and therapeutic environment, communicates with sensitivity to patients’ diverse needs, protects patient rights and confidentiality, advocates for patients and families, and contributes to improvements in clinical practice and patient outcomes. The RN also supports learning for patients, families, colleagues, and the community, and may serve as a mentor, coach, or preceptor based on unit needs and individual abilities.

Full-time opportunities are available for 36 hours per week on either the day shift (7 a.m.–7 p.m.) or night shift (7 p.m.–7 a.m.).

Requirements

• Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN) required.
• Active Florida or multistate RN license required.
• At least one year of critical care RN experience required.
• Valid American Heart Association BLS certification, which must remain valid for 90 days after the start date; must be obtained within 30 days of hire.
• Valid American Heart Association PALS certification; must be obtained within 30 days of hire.
• Valid American Heart Association ACLS certification; must be obtained within 30 days of hire.

Nice To Haves

• National certification in the area of clinical specialty preferred.
• Multiple years of pediatric critical care experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Observe and assess patients; develop nursing diagnoses and care plans; intervene and evaluate care.
• Provide health teaching and counseling, promote wellness, maintain health, and help prevent illness.
• Administer medications and treatments as prescribed or authorized by a qualified practitioner.
• Implement the patient care delivery model for patients and their families.
• Use clinical judgment, critical thinking, policies, procedures, guidelines, and reliable methods to make practice decisions.
• Collect and interpret complex patient data and respond to changing clinical situations.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary clinicians, seek expert consultation, and delegate appropriately.
• Seek clinical knowledge and education, participate in the research process, and implement evidence-based changes in practice.
• Create a safe, compassionate, supportive, and therapeutic environment that promotes comfort and healing.
• Adapt care and communication to patients’ and families’ cultural, spiritual, linguistic, developmental, and other needs.
• Protect patient and family confidentiality, autonomy, dignity, and rights.
• Advocate for patients, families, and Associates; help address ethical concerns and initiate ethics consultation when appropriate.
• Participate in team discussions, nursing or hospital governance, committees, and initiatives to improve practice and outcomes.
• Use resources responsibly and contribute to the development and revision of standards, policies, and procedures.
• Assess learning needs and readiness, provide evidence-based patient and family education, and evaluate its effectiveness.
• Seek mentorship for professional growth and serve as a mentor, coach, or preceptor as appropriate.

Benefits

• Six paid holidays annually.
• One day of paid volunteer time off.
• Six weeks of paid parental leave at 100% pay for new parents.
• Tuition reimbursement of up to $5,250 for approved courses.
• 403(b) retirement savings plan with immediate participation and matching contributions.
• Basic life and AD&D insurance equal to one times annual salary, up to $500,000.
• Short- and long-term disability coverage at 60% of salary for non-work-related disabilities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: Associate degree