Registered Nurse - RN - ER Part Time Shift Varies

Orlando Health Melbourne Hospital Advanced Care Registered Nurse ECMO Specialist

Administers patient care in an area in a hospital or inpatient setting where patients have an advanced illness or injury that routinely requires timely, intense, and complex care to stabilize and support the patient's medical condition. These areas require a lower caregiver-to-patient ratio and highly trained team members with advanced skills.

Responsibilities include demonstrating critical knowledge, skills, and judgment to care for patients requiring complex assessment and therapies, high intensity interventions, and high-level continuous nursing vigilance. Specialists work under the direction of unit leadership, intensivist services, perfusion services, and in collaboration with bedside staff to ensure that the patient on ECMO has adequate perfusion, corrects for proper acid-base balance, and provides for hemodynamic stability within ordered parameters.

Qualifications include a graduate of an approved school of nursing, 1 year of experience required unless approved by AVP level or above, and maintaining current State of Florida RN license or valid eNLC multistate RN license. BLS/Healthcare Provider certification is required, and ACLS, NRP, PALS, TNCC are required for certain areas. NRP is required for Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).