Registered Nurse - APH Pre-Post Procedural Unit - VFT​/Arnold Palmer Hospital

Position Summary

Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children Pre and Post Procedural Recovery Area Team is seeking for a Pediatric Registered Nurse (RN) to administer 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.

Registered Nurse, Advance

APH Pre and Post Procedural Recovery Area

Variable Full Time

Monday thru Friday day shift

Dot call

The APH Pre and post Catheterization Recovery Area includes Pre-procedural holding and the Post-anesthesia Care Phases I and II. It is located on the third floor of Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children behind the Pediatric Cardiac Care Unit and is fully equipped to recover pediatric and adult patients following any procedures completed in the APH Cath Lab and APH IR lab.

The unit is operational 12 hours a day 5 days a week (Monday thru Friday). The APH Peri anesthesia Unit, in conjunction with Cardiac Anesthesia Services, offers Peri anesthesia care to inpatients and outpatients who meet the anesthesia ASA Class I, II, III or IV physical status criteria of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. The major services include elective and urgent cardiac catheterization, electrophysiology, and interventional radiology procedures for pediatric and adult patients.

Patients having local, general, and monitored anesthesia care are treated.

• 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 PTO in your 1st year of employment.
• Employer paid life insurance, Short & Long-Term Disability.

Providing compassionate care to the children, teenagers and young adults of Central Florida for more than 30 years, Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children is located on the downtown Orlando campus and includes 156 licensed beds for specialized care for children as well as the Bert Martin's Champions for Children Emergency Department & Trauma Center, offering trauma care for children as the pediatric site of the Orlando Health ORMC Level One Trauma Center.

State-of-the-art pediatric services are provided by a comprehensive staff that includes pediatric subspecialty physicians and a nursing team that is "Magnet" recognized for nursing excellence and high-quality patient care. The hospital also has earned national recognition for 12 consecutive years as a "Best Children's Hospitals" by U.S. News & World Report and was included, together with Orlando Health ORMC, in the IBM Watson Health 100 Top Hospitals list for 2021.

• 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, such as intracranial pressures, central venous pressures, pulmonary artery pressures, and cardiac rhythms from cardiac monitors,…