Registered Nurse - Mobile ICU - Arnold Palmer Hospital

Position Summary

Mobile ICU Registered Nurse (Mobile ICU RN). Department: APH Mobile Transport. Shift: Varies.

The Pediatric Critical Care Transport Team transports and provides comprehensive care to a patient population of birth to 18 years. Patients require maintenance of adequate airway, cardiovascular integrity, fluid and electrolyte balance, and hemodynamic stability. The team is based at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children. Medical coverage is available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Transport requests from referring physicians are directed to the PICU Intensivist/Fellow on call for pediatric critical care patients.

For acute care patients, requests go to the admitting physician. The team is activated by the transfer center as soon as an accepting physician is identified.

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package
• Opportunities for professional growth and advancement using a clinical ladder
• Supportive and collaborative work environment
• Continuing education and professional development opportunities
• Retirement savings plan with up to 5% match; financial savings accounts and health savings accounts
• Nearly 5 weeks of paid time off in the first year of employment
• Employer-paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability

• Demonstrate critical knowledge, skills, and judgment to care for patients requiring complex assessment and therapies, high-intensity interventions, and high-level continuous nursing vigilance.
• Utilize information and assessment data to anticipate and respond with confidence and adapt to rapidly changing patient conditions.
• Identify and prioritize information to take immediate and decisive evidence-based, patient-focused action.
• Monitor and adjust specialized equipment used on patients, and interpret and record electronic displays, such as intracranial pressures, central venous pressures, pulmonary artery pressures, and cardiac rhythms from cardiac monitors, respirators, ventilators, oxygen pumps, etc.
• Respond to life-saving situations based on nursing standards and protocol.
• Observe, monitor, and assess patients’ condition, recognize, identify, and interpret serious situations and call physician or take preplanned emergency measures when physician is not immediately available.
• Assess patient’s needs and develop/revise an individualized plan of care based on patient needs and responses; evaluate the patient’s progress toward attaining expected outcomes.
• Respect diversity by building respectful relationships with all team members and customers.
• Function as a patient and family advocate.
• Demonstrate advanced knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served on assigned unit/departments.
• Serve as a preceptor, charge nurse, unit educator, and/or nurse clinician.
• Communicate and collaborate with medical staff and interdisciplinary team to effectively plan and manage the unit/departments.
• Serve as a role model for staff and support the hospital and nursing department’s goals and strategies.
• Demonstrate knowledge of principles of growth and development over the life span, assess data reflective of the patient’s status, and interpret the information needed to identify each patient’s requirements relative to age-specific needs.

• Graduate of an approved school of nursing

• Maintains current State of Florida RN license or valid eNLC multistate RN license
• Maintains current BLS/Healthcare Provider certification
• ACLS, NRP, PALS, TNCC required for certain areas; NRP required for NICU

• 1 year experience required