Charge Nurse-PICU - NIGHTS

NIGHT SHIFT (7P-7A) PICU Charge Nurse

Nemours Children’s Health in Orlando, Florida is seeking a night shift PICU charge nurse.

The Charge Nurse implements the patient care delivery model for the patient and their family.

• The observation, assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, intervention, and evaluation of care; health teaching and counseling of the ill, injured, or infirm; and the promotion of wellness, maintenance of health, and prevention of illness of others.
• The administration of medications and treatments as prescribed or authorized by a duly licensed practitioner authorized by the laws of this state to prescribe such medications and treatments.
• The supervision and teaching of other personnel in the theory and performance of any of the acts.

Florida Nursing Practice Act. The 2016 Florida Statutes, Title XXXII, Regulation of Professions and Occupations. Retrieved from (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

• Utilize and ensure compliance with policies, procedures, guidelines, and reliable methods to make clinical practice decisions.
• Recognize and respond to the dynamic situation while sorting out extraneous detail and exercising clinical judgment based on an immediate grasp of the whole picture for the patient population of the assigned clinical area.
• Independently develop, implement, evaluate, and modify clinical practice matching formal knowledge with critical thinking and nursing skills.
• Collect and interpret complex patient data with clinical events to make clinical decisions to meet individual patient and family needs.
• Engage in multidisciplinary collaboration, proactively seek expert consultation, and delegate to other clinicians, as appropriate, while using evidence-based guidelines.

• Demonstrate knowledge seeking behaviors and identify clinical questions. Seek/provide advice, resources, and/or education opportunities to improve patient care.
• Participate in the research process and implement changes in practice based upon the evidence.

• Create a safe, compassionate, supportive, and therapeutic environment for patients, family, and associates.
• Promote comfort and healing and prevent unnecessary suffering with vigilance, engagement, and responsiveness.
• Develop professional and trusting relationships that facilitate patient/family coping while maintaining appropriate boundaries.

• Recognize, appreciate, and incorporate differences into the provision of patient and family-centered care, including cultural, spiritual, gender/gender identity, lifestyle, race, ethnicity, linguistic, socioeconomic status, age, developmental, and values.
• Demonstrate effective methods of communication as required to meet the patient and family health care literacy needs.
• Preserve and protect the confidentiality, autonomy, dignity, and rights of patient and families.
• Acknowledge and adapt to the organizational culture and healthcare environment.

• Serve as a moral agent in identifying and help to resolve ethical and clinical concerns within and outside the clinical setting.
• Advocate on behalf of patients, families, and associates while promoting adherence to the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses.
• Act as resource for patients and families working towards resolution of ethical and moral issues. Initiate ethics consult when appropriate.

• Effectively communicate and collaborate with nursing leaders and the inter-professionals within the hospital system.
• Work with patients, families, and associates in a way that respectfully promotes each person’s contributions toward developing and achieving optimal patient and family goals across the continuum.
• Participate in team meetings and discussions regarding patient care and/or practice issues.
• Involve intra- and inter-professional work with colleagues and community.
• Participate in nursing/hospital governance, councils, committees, ad hoc teams and/or initiatives to improve clinical practice and patient care outcomes.

• Facilitate timeliness of patient admissions, transfers, and discharges.
• Use the daily management systems and…