Registered Nurse - Pediatrics' Emergency & Trauma; nights

Position Summary

Registered Nurse administers patient care in the Emergency Room setting for children, supporting advanced medical and trauma care.

Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, Orlando, FL

Children's Emergency & Trauma Unit

Variable Full-time (3/12-hours shift)

Night Shift (7PM - 7AM)

• Assesses patient’s needs and develops/revises an individualized plan of care based on patient needs and responses. Evaluates the patient’s progress toward attaining expected outcomes.
• Functions as a patient and family advocate.
• Monitors and adjusts specialized equipment used on patients, and interprets and records electronic displays such as intracranial pressures, central venous pressures, pulmonary artery pressures, and cardiac rhythms from cardiac monitors, respirators, ventilators, oxygen pumps, etc.
• Responds to life-saving situations based on nursing standards and protocol.
• Observes, monitors, and assesses patients’ condition, recognizes, identifies, and interprets serious situations and calls physician or takes pre-planned emergency measures when physician is not immediately available.
• 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.
• Assesses patient’s needs and develops/revises an individualized plan of care based on patient needs and responses. Evaluates the patient’s progress toward attaining expected outcomes.

Education/Training

• Graduate of an approved school of nursing.
• Meets all mandatory, developmental, and performance competency requirements for Orlando Health and unit/department.

Licensure/Certification

• Maintains current licensure as a registered nurse in the State of Florida or Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC).
• Maintains current BLS/Healthcare Provider certification.
• ACLS, NRP, PALS, TNCC are required for certain areas.

Experience

• At least two (2) years of experience as a Registered Nurse in an Emergency Room setting (Pediatrics prefer).

All benefits start day one, including career-growing education programs and well-being services.