Nurse Pediatric Intensive Care

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high‑quality care that truly impacts our patients' well‑being and recovery. Every day, you will be expected to leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

To be successful in this role, you must possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient‑first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast‑paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

• ASSESSMENT:
  The registered nurse completes initial patient assessment and reassessments as indicated by patient condition, and assures practices comply with human resources, policies/procedures, and professional standards.
• CRITICAL THINKING:
  The registered nurse demonstrates critical thinking by implementing the nursing process (assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation) and using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems, and assures practices comply with human resources, policies/procedures, and professional standards.
• PHYSICAL ABILITIES:
  The registered nurse has the physical ability to safely and effectively care for patient population assigned and assures practices comply with human resources, policies/procedures, and professional standards.
• MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION:
  The registered nurse manages medication administration and intravenous (IV) access according to physician's orders and assures practices comply with human resources, policies/procedures, and professional standards.
• DOCUMENTATION:
  The registered nurse documents nursing care and patient status in accordance with the nursing process and assures practices comply with human resources, policies/procedures, and professional standards.
• COMMUNICATION:
  The registered nurse has communication abilities sufficient to promote patient and family centered care by interacting with patients, families, and care‑delivery team in verbal and written form and assures practices comply with human resources, policies/procedures, and professional standards.
• This position is represented by CNA and is covered by the terms and conditions of the applicable collective bargaining agreement.

• One (1) year acute pediatric intensive care experience or successful completion of applicable clinical and didactic SRDH specialty training course(s) or program.
• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Active RN license in good standing with the Nevada State Board of Nursing.
• Basic Life Support Certification – American Heart Association (AHA).
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support Certification – American Heart Association (AHA).
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support Certification – American Heart Association (AHA).
• Oncology Certified Nurse.
• Please be advised that this location requires quarterly American Heart Association (AHA) Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI) competency certification post‑hire. This ongoing competency is required through resources internal to the facility; outside RQI competency resources are not acceptable for Common Spirit Health compliance requirements.

• Two (2) years PICU acute career experience.
• Bachelors Of Nursing.