Registered Nurse - Emergency Department at Lake Mary

Overview

Department: LMH Emergency Services

Status: Variable Full-Time (3 x 12 hours a week)

Schedule: Night shift

Title: Registered Nurse, Advanced Care

Location: Orlando Health Lake Mary Hospital

The NEW Orlando Health Lake Mary Hospital represents Orlando Health’s continued commitment to the Seminole County community, which we have proudly served for 40 years. As a comprehensive acute care facility, the hospital offers a full scope of medical and surgical services, including cardiovascular, general surgery, orthopedics, and women’s services with labor and delivery, alongside a future NICU. Opening with 124 beds, the 455,000 square foot hospital will be able to expand to up to 240 beds.

State-of-the-art facilities include operating rooms, catheterization labs, interventional radiology, a vascular lab, an ICU and a full-service emergency department.

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.

Essential Functions

• Demonstrates critical knowledge, skills, and judgement to care for patients requiring complex assessment and therapies, high intensity interventions, and high-level continuous nursing vigilance.
• Utilizes information and assessment data to anticipate and respond with confidence and adapt to rapidly changing patient conditions.
• Identifies and prioritizes information to take immediate and decisive evidence-based, patient focused action.
• Monitors and adjusts specialized equipment used on patients, and interprets and records electronic displays (e.g., intracranial pressures, central venous pressures, pulmonary artery pressures, and cardiac rhythms from monitors, respirators, ventilators, oxygen pumps, etc.).
• Responds to life-saving situations based on nursing standards and protocol.
• Observes, monitors, and assesses patient condition; recognizes, identifies, and interprets serious situations and calls Physician or takes preplanned emergency measures when Physician is not immediately available.
• Assesses patient needs and develops/revises an individualized plan of care; evaluates progress toward outcomes.
• Respects diversity by building respectful relationships with all team members and customers.
• Functions as a patient and family advocate.
• Demonstrates advanced knowledge and skills to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served on the assigned unit/department.
• Serves as a preceptor, charge nurse, unit educator, and/or nurse clinician.
• Communicates and collaborates with medical staff and interdisciplinary team to plan and manage the unit/department.
• Serves as a role model for staff and supports hospital and nursing department goals.
• Demonstrates knowledge of growth and development principles; assesses patient data to identify age-specific needs.
• Coordinates care and delegates to other team members on a defined group of patients.
• Documents patient care in a knowledgeable, skillful, and compliant manner; includes assessment, education, medication administration, treatments, and safety.
• Demonstrates competency in nursing skills and unit equipment as defined by unit/department requirements.
• Prioritizes patient care in alignment with Evidence-Based Practice Standards.
• Practices issue identification and resolution; delegates tasks according to patient needs and team member capabilities.
• Communicates patient condition and unit concerns to the health care team.
• Provides compassionate and therapeutic environment for patients and families.
• Maintains awareness of legal issues and patients’ rights.
• Collaborates with education and nursing leadership to support new team members and students.
• Maintains regular, punctual attendance per Orlando Health policies and applicable laws.
• Maintains compliance with Orlando Health policies and procedures.

• Contributes to knowledge and skills of others and supports quality improvement.
• Participates in unit or organizational committees…