Staff RN PRN - Experienced Cardiac ICU

Job Description

PRN / Casual- seeking candidate with previous pediatric CVICU RN experience!

We're searching for a Staff RN Cardiac Care to coordinate professional nursing and individualized, family centered care to pediatric patients / families through the use of the nursing process and clinical skills in accordance with standards and hospital policies and procedures. Obtains skills necessary to care for cardiac patients regardless of acuity and age. Works collaboratively with the interdisciplinary team regardless of location to provide care excellence to patients and families of the cardiac population.

Essential Functions

• Conducts individualized age-specific patient / family assessments according to defined unit scope and nursing practice standards, appropriate collaborative problems (CPG's) / nursing diagnoses(ND's), or protocols. (Individualized refers to the patient's developmental, cognitive, cultural, psychosocial, spiritual, and educational / family influences and physical / medical care needs.)

Admission Assessment :

Shift Assessment / Reassessment :

SECONDARY FUNCTIONS

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES :

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE :

CERTIFICATIONS / LICENSURE REQUIREMENTS :

EOE / Vets / Disabled

INDNUR

About Us

At Children's Nebraska, our mission is to improve the life of every child through exceptional care, advocacy, research and education. As the state's only full-service pediatric healthcare center, we provide comprehensive, holistic care to our patients and families-from primary and specialty care to behavioral health services and everything in between. Dedicated to a People First culture, we foster an environment with joy, belonging, wellbeing, learning and growth. Turn your passion into purpose and make a difference where it matters most.

About the Team

The Cardiac Care Unit is a brand new 32 bed, adaptable acuity model, providing high quality care to all cardiac patients across the continuum from admission to discharge. The CCU nurse cares for patients with a primary cardiac diagnosis and varying acuity levels, majority less than one year of age.

With 24 / 7 in-house critical care physicians and advanced practice providers, as well as dedicated pharmacists, social workers, nurse navigators, and dietitians, the Cardiac Care Unit offers a multidisciplinary, family-centered approach to care. Patients cared for in the Cardiac Care Unit are newborn to young adult with congenital and acquired heart disease undergoing pre and post-surgical repair and / or heart catheterization and patients with heart failure, transplant, shock, pulmonary hypertension, and patients needing ECMO support.