RN Clinical Nurse II - Newborn Critical Care
Listed on 2026-08-07
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Nursing
Healthcare Nursing, ICU Nurse, RN Nurse, Pediatric Nurse
Description
Join Our Elite Team of Newborn Critical Care Nurses!Are you an experienced RN with a passion for making a real difference in the lives of the tiniest, most vulnerable patients? Step into a role where every shift could change a life.
Our Newborn Critical Care Center (NCCC) is a nationally recognized, 74-bed unit dedicated to providing state-of-the-art, lifesaving care to the most critically ill and medically fragile newborns from all 100 counties across North Carolina and beyond. From extremely premature infants to those requiring complex surgeries, our team is equipped to handle the most challenging and rewarding cases in neonatal care.
Position Highlights:Experienced RN – Newborn Critical Care
36 hours/week (Day/Night Rotating Shifts)
Weekend shift rotation required
Be part of a high-performing, compassionate team in a dynamic, fast-paced, intensive care environment
Access to cutting-edge technology, advanced training, and continual professional development
If you're ready to bring your expertise, resilience, and heart to one of the region’s top NICUs, we’d love to meet you.
Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.
Summary:
Provides competent clinical nursing care consistent with professional standards. Reporting and accountable to the Nurse Manager/Director, the Clinical Nurse is responsible for coordinating and delivering patient care utilizing the nursing process in a hospital setting.
Responsibilities:
- Participates in identifying and meeting learning needs of self. Attends education programs based on identified learning needs. With assistance, uses patient education materials relevant to patient population. Assesses readiness to learn of the patient/family/caregivers. Assesses developmental level of patient and factors affecting ability to learn.
- Identifies expected patient outcomes. Seeks guidance as needed in revision of plan of care. Participates in discussion with members of the interdisciplinary team in evaluation of patient care. Communicates relevant information to promote continuity of care.
- Demonstrates competence in care of patients with complex problems, including population-appropriate physical, psychosocial, educational and safety aspects of care. Performs bedside point-of-care testing as required for patient care plan. Utilizes healthcare organization and nursing standards, policies and procedures in delivery of care. Organizes and prioritizes care according to patient/family needs. Consults with appropriate resources in a timely fashion regarding patients with complex care issues, unusual teaching needs and/or those at high risk for discharge planning.
- With assistance, develops goals to promote professional growth or minimize limitations. Achieves goals and objectives within identified time frame or renegotiates with supervisor. Is knowledgeable about activities which facilitate intra/interdepartmental collaboration. Participates in development and achievement of unit goals and performance improvement activities. Effectively uses communication systems. Participates in promoting cost-effective care. Gives feedback to co-workers. Is aware of public policy and regulatory guidelines affecting the health care environment.
Promotes a safe, clean and secure hospital environment for all.
- Recognizes data from complex situations to determine priorities for care. Includes appropriate physical, psychosocial, education and safety needs. Synthesizes assessment data into meaningful whole prior to communication to others. Assesses and anticipates discharge needs of individual patients and families. Develops relationships with families that promote their ability to advocate for the patient and their own needs.
- Collaborates with patient/family to prepare or update the plan of care. Makes use of available multidisciplinary resources in planning care. Begins to use full range of communication as a means to convey planning. Identifies and addresses cultural and…
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