Registered Nurse NICU

vision insurance, parental leave, paid time off, 403(b), relocation assistance

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.

About the NICU:

Our Level III NICU in Colorado Springs cares for a large volume of patients with more than 50 licensed beds in a free-standing Children's Hospital. Our NICU focuses their expertise by specializing in the care of a wide variety of neonatal patients ranging from extremely premature infants, critically ill term newborns, surgical patients, and everything in between. We are a full-service Children's Hospital with the necessary subspecialties to meet the unique needs of the patients we serve.

As the premier Children's Hospital serving the Southern Colorado region we receive patients from facilities in Colorado Springs, Southern Colorado as well as neighboring states. Many of our patients are born close by at UC Health, our next-door hospital partner. Our unit has a sky bridge to their labor and delivery unit which serves as a wonderful partnership for the parents to come and see their baby while mom is still inpatient.

We are primarily a clean NICU, meaning babies that come to us have usually never been home. However, when babies need our help, we are ready to do whatever it takes to provide them the best care. We will take babies who have been home for phototherapy, rule out sepsis, respiratory illnesses, and other needs for hospitalization under certain circumstances.

Of note, Colorado Springs was ranked the second-best metro area to live in the United States (out of 150 cities) by US News & World Report for 2022. To make the top of the list, a city must have good value, be a desirable place to live, have a strong job market and a high quality of life.

Additional Information:

Department: CSH NICU

Hours:

36 hours/week

Shift: Three 12 hour night shifts per week

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 data at the patient level to make care decisions.
  
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