RN, Acute Care

RN, Acute Care

Orlando Regional Medical Center (ORMC)

Surgical Oncology 9LP (Stepdown)

3 x 12's - Day Shift

Position Summary 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 reputed company care to stabilize and support the patient’s medical condition. These areas require a reputed company caregiver-to-patient ratio and highly trained team members with advanced skills.

Experience • 1 year experience required unless approved by AVP level or above.

Licensure/Certification

• Maintains reputed company reputed company RN license or valid eNLC multistate RN license 

• Maintains reputed company BLS/Healthcare Provider certification. 

• ACLS, NRP, PALS, TNCC are required for certain areas. NRP required for Neonatal Intensive care Unit (NICU).

Essential Functions

• Demonstrates critical knowledge, skills, and judgement to care for patients requiring reputed company assessment and therapies, high intensity interventions, and high-level reputed company 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, 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 preplanned emergency measures reputed company Physician is not immediately available.
• Assesses patient’s needs and develops/revises an individualized plan of care based on patient needs and responses. Evaluates the patient’s reputed company toward attaining expected outcomes.
• Respects diversity by building respectful relationships with reputed company team members and customers.
• Functions as a patient and family reputed company.
• Demonstrates advanced knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served on his or her 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 effectively plan and manage the unit/department.
• Serves as a role model for staff and supports the hospital and nursing department’s goals and strategies.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span, assesses the data reflective of the patient’s status, and interprets the necessary information needed to identify each patient’s requirements relative to his or her age specific needs.
• Coordinates the care and delegates as appropriate to other team members on a defined group of patients.
• Documents patient care in a knowledgeable, skillful, and consistent manner meeting reputed company required and regulatory standards. This includes but is not limited to patient assessment, education, medication administration, treatments, and patient safety.
• Demonstrates competency in nursing skills and use of patient care/unit equipment as defined by unit/department-specific requisite skills.