RN - NICU (NIGHTS)

Nemours Children's Health • Orlando, FL

2h • Onsite

About The Position

Nemours is hiring a full-time Registered Nurse to join the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Nemours Children’s Hospital in Orlando, Florida, working 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. The hospital’s 18-bed Level IV NICU has private, single-family rooms and provides advanced therapies including whole-body hypothermia, high-frequency ventilation, inhaled nitric oxide, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Neonatologists collaborate with maternal-fetal medicine, pediatric surgery, cardiology, and critical care teams to manage complex and rare neonatal conditions. The NICU also supports the hospital’s Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Fetal Care Programs and serves as a regional referral center in partnership with hospitals throughout Central Florida.

The Registered Nurse implements the patient care delivery model for patients and their families. The role involves professional nursing practice, including assessment, planning, intervention, evaluation, health teaching, counseling, and administration of prescribed medications and treatments. Nurses apply clinical judgment, evidence-based practice, compassionate and culturally responsive care, advocacy, collaboration, systems thinking, and patient and family education.

Nemours Children’s Health is an internationally recognized pediatric health system serving more than 1.7 million patient encounters annually. Its nonprofit system delivers care across six states through two freestanding children’s hospitals, a network of more than 80 primary, urgent, and specialty care practices, and more than 40 hospital partnerships. The organization emphasizes whole-child health, inclusion, culturally relevant care, and reducing health disparities.

Requirements

• Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN) required.
• Active Florida or multistate RN license required.
• At least 6 months of RN experience required.
• Valid American Heart Association BLS certification, valid for 90 days after the start date.
• Valid American Heart Association NRP certification before the employment start date.
• S.T.A.B.L.E. certification before the employment start date.

Nice To Haves

• National certification in the clinical specialty.
• Experience in a pediatric specialty area.

Responsibilities

• Implement the patient care delivery model for patients and their families.
• Observe and assess patients; develop nursing diagnoses and care plans; intervene and evaluate care.
• Provide health teaching and counseling, and promote wellness, health maintenance, and illness prevention.
• Administer medications and treatments as prescribed or authorized by a licensed practitioner.
• Use policies, procedures, guidelines, and reliable methods to make clinical practice decisions.
• Independently develop, implement, evaluate, and modify clinical practice using critical thinking and nursing skills.
• Collect and interpret complex patient data and clinical events to meet individual patient and family needs.
• Recognize and respond to changing clinical situations, using sound clinical judgment.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, seek expert consultation, and delegate to other clinicians as appropriate.
• Seek knowledge, identify clinical questions, pursue advice and education, participate in research, and implement evidence-based practice changes.
• Create a safe, compassionate, supportive, and therapeutic environment; promote comfort and healing and prevent unnecessary suffering.
• Build professional, trusting relationships with patients and families while maintaining appropriate boundaries.
• Provide patient- and family-centered care that respects cultural, spiritual, gender, linguistic, socioeconomic, developmental, and other differences.
• Communicate effectively to meet patient and family health literacy needs and protect their confidentiality, autonomy, dignity, and rights.
• Advocate for patients, families, and associates; support resolution of ethical and moral issues and initiate ethics consultations when appropriate.
• Participate in team meetings, interprofessional work, governance, councils, committees, teams, and initiatives to improve care and outcomes.
• Use resources to provide safe, effective, and financially responsible nursing services and apply strategies across the continuum of care.
• Contribute to the development and revision of standards of care, policies, and procedures.
• Identify educational needs, assess readiness to learn, provide and evaluate patient and family teaching, and facilitate learning for associates and the community.
• Seek a mentor for professional growth and serve as a mentor, coach, or preceptor based on unit needs and individual abilities or preferences.
• Supervise and teach other personnel in nursing theory and practice.

Benefits

• Tuition reimbursement of up to $5,250 annually for approved courses.
• Relocation assistance.
• $3,000 employee referral bonus.
• Paid time off, including six paid holidays annually and one day of paid volunteer time off.
• Six weeks of paid parental leave at 100% pay.
• 403(b) retirement savings plan with immediate participation and matching contributions.
• 457(b) program for highly compensated associates.
• 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
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Associate degree