Registered Nurse PICU

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Job Overview The Clinical Nurse (CN) II provides Family-Centered Care as demonstrated by recognizing the patient, family and/or designee as a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs. Assumes active role in clinical education of patients, families and staff. Functions effectively within nursing and inter‑professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision‑making to achieve quality patient care.

Integrates best current evidence with clinical expertise for delivery of optimal health care. Uses data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and uses improvement methods to test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems. Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance. Uses information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision‑making.
The 16 bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit in Colorado Springs provides multidisciplinary care for children birth to young adulthood with major medical or surgical conditions necessitating critical care therapy or close monitoring. Diagnoses include multi‑organ system failure, acute and chronic pulmonary conditions, trauma, meningitis, septic shock, near drowning, diabetic keto acidosis, renal and/or hepatic failure, oncology, epilepsy monitoring, neurosurgical, orthopedic, ENT, general pediatric surgical patients and airway management among others.

Our patient population challenges us daily to use our best clinical judgement skills.
Department Name:
Colorado Springs Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU).
Job Status: full time, 36 hours per week, eligible for benefits.

Shift: nights.
This position is eligible for relocation assistance, if relocating from 100 miles or greater.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Family‑Centered Care:
  Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
• Delivers patient and family centered care incorporating the nursing process while providing developmentally appropriate, culturally sensitive, evidence based care. Actively anticipates changes in patient outcomes/ unit needs in the provision of care.
• Care is guided by the Professional Practice Model throughout the continuum of care.
• Communicate and advocate patient values, preferences and expressed needs as part of implementation of care plan, evaluation of care and assessment of patient/family learning needs to the interdisciplinary team. Initiates and anticipates individualized care and education for patients/families across the continuum using an interdisciplinary approach.
• Teamwork &
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Function effectively within nursing and inter‑professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision‑making to achieve quality patient care.
• Applies communication practices that minimize risks across transitions of care.
• Presents own perspective and supporting evidence in patient care and team discussions.
• Collaborates with team members in shared decision making.
• Evidence Based Practice:
  Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care.
• Identifies key concepts of research and evidence‑based practice.
• Participates in structuring the work environment to facilitate integration of new evidence into standards of practice.
• Recognizes and communicates the need for revision of hospital and departmental policies procedures, practice guidelines, and/or measures for clinical practice evaluation.
• Recognizes the standard of care provided by the applicable professional organization and /or association.
• Quality Improvement:
  Use data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and use improvement methods to design and test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems.
• Utilizes outcome…