RN Clinical Nurse II - Pediatric Cardiac ICU; Acute Care
Listed on 2026-10-08
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Nursing
ICU Nurse, Pediatric Nurse, RN Nurse, Healthcare Nursing
Description
Experienced Nurses:
Join Our New Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (PCICU) Team, specializing in the acute care patient population!
We are excited to launch our
* new* 13-bed Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (PCICU) within our Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center. This specialized unit provides advanced, life-saving care to critically ill infants, children, and adolescents with complex congenital and acquired heart conditions.
* This position offers incentives to eligible candidates!
Our team is built on collaboration and expertise. You will work within a highly skilled and dedicated team in a supportive, interdisciplinary environment focused on delivery of exceptional and compassionate care to the most fragile patients.
We are deeply committed to creating a family-centered care experience, ensuring that patients and their loved ones are supported, informed, and cared for every step of the way.
We are excited to offer a position in which nurses who specialize in acute care are integrated within the PCICU team!
As a PCICU nurse, you will:
- Provide specialized care for our acute care pediatric cardiac patients and families
- Receive cross-training to manage a broad range of pediatric medical and surgical cases
- Expand your clinical skills in a dynamic, high-acuity setting
- Receive paid didactic educational time enhancing Pediatric Cardiac knowledge
Schedule:
3 12hr shifts/week (36hrs/week), rotating between both night shift and day shift, along with weekend requirements
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.
SummaryProvides 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…
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