RN-Float (NIGHTS)

Nemours Children's Health • Orlando, FL

21h • Onsite

About The Position

Nemours is seeking a Registered Nurse (Staffing Resource Float Pool) to join our Nemours Children's Hospital team in Orlando, Florida. This is a FULL-TIME position (36 hours per week) with night shifts (7P-7A). Nemours Children’s Hospital, located in Orlando, Fla., is a 100-bed pediatric hospital featuring the area’s only 24-hour Emergency Department designed specifically for children, along with outpatient pediatric clinics offering specialties previously unavailable in the region. The hospital is designed by families for families, integrating the healing power of nature with healthcare innovation to provide world-class care. Nemours also offers specialty outpatient care in clinics throughout the region.

The role involves the practice of professional nursing, which includes substantial specialized knowledge, judgment, and nursing skill based upon applied principles of psychological, biological, physical, and social sciences. This encompasses observation, assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, intervention, and evaluation of care; health teaching and counseling; promotion of wellness, health maintenance, and illness prevention; administration of medications and treatments as prescribed; and the supervision and teaching of other personnel. The Registered Nurse implements the patient care delivery model for the patient and their family.

Requirements

• ASN required
• Active Florida or multi-state RN license, required
• Minimum of 1-year Critical Care RN experience required
• Valid American Heart Association BLS Certification; must be valid for 90 days post start date (obtained within 30 days of hire)
• Valid American Heart Association PALS (obtained within 30 days of hire)

Nice To Haves

• National certification in area of clinical specialty (preferred)
• multiple years of pediatric critical care experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Utilize policies, procedures, guidelines, and reliable methods to make clinical practice decisions.
• Independently develop, implement, evaluate, and modify clinical practice matching formal knowledge with critical thinking and nursing skills.
• Collect and interpret complex patient data with clinical events to make clinical decisions to meet individual patient and family needs.
• Recognize and respond to the dynamic situation while sorting out extraneous detail and exercises clinical judgment based on an immediate grasp of the whole picture for the patient population of the assigned clinical area.
• Engage in multidisciplinary collaboration, proactively seek expert consultation, and delegate to other clinicians, as appropriate, while using evidence-based guidelines.
• Demonstrate knowledge seeking behaviors and identify clinical questions. Seek advice, resources, and/or education opportunities to improve patient care.
• Participate in the research process and implement changes in practice based upon the evidence.
• Create a safe, compassionate, supportive, and therapeutic environment for patients, family, and Associates.
• Promote comfort and healing and prevent unnecessary suffering with vigilance, engagement, and responsiveness.
• Develop professional and trusting relationships that facilitate patient/family coping while maintaining appropriate boundaries.
• Recognize, appreciate, and incorporate differences into the provision of patient and family centered care, including cultural, spiritual, gender/gender identity, lifestyle, race, ethnicity, linguistic, socioeconomic status, age, developmental, and values.
• Demonstrate effective methods of communication as required to meet the patient and family health care literacy needs.
• Preserve and protect the confidentiality, autonomy, dignity, and rights of patient and families.
• Acknowledge and adapt to the organizational culture and healthcare environment.
• Advocate on behalf of patients, families, and Associates while promoting adherence to the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses.
• Act as resource for patients and families working towards resolution of ethical and moral issues. Initiate ethics consult when appropriate.
• Serve as a moral agent in identifying and help to resolve ethical and clinical concerns within and outside the clinical setting.
• Work with patients, families, and Associates in a way that respectfully promotes each person's contributions toward developing and achieving optimal patient and family goals across the continuum.
• Participate in team meetings and discussions regarding patient care and/or practice issues.
• Involve intra- and inter-professional work with colleagues and community.
• Participate in nursing/hospital governance, councils, committees, ad hoc teams and/or initiatives to improve clinical practice and patient care outcomes.
• Utilize appropriate resources to plan and provide nursing services that are safe, effective, and financially responsible.
• Develop, integrate, and apply strategies across the continuum of care that are driven by the unique needs and strengths of the patient and family.
• Contribute to the development and revision of standards of care policies and procedures.
• Identify areas of educational needs and facilitate formal and informal learning for patients, families, Associates, and the community.
• Assess patients and family's readiness to learn.
• Utilize patient teaching plans that incorporate evidence based practice and evaluate effectiveness.
• Seek out a mentor to facilitate individual professional growth.
• Serve as a mentor, coach, preceptor, based upon unit needs and individual preferences and/or abilities.

Benefits

• Six paid holidays annually
• One day of paid volunteer time off
• Six weeks of paid parental leave at 100% pay
• Tuition reimbursement 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 time 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: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree