Charge Nurse-PICU - NIGHTS

Position Responsibilities

• Implement the patient care delivery model for the patient and their family.
• 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.
• Respond to diversity by recognizing, appreciating, and incorporating 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 helping 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 a resource for patients and families working towards resolution of ethical and moral issues.
• Initiate ethics consult when appropriate.
• Collaborate effectively 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.
• Involvement in intra- and inter-professional work with colleagues and community.
• Participation 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 escalate through the chain of command.
• Utilize appropriate resources to plan and provide nursing services that are safe, effective, and financially responsible.
• Develop, integrate, and apply strategies across the continuum of care that are driven by the unique needs and strengths of the patient and family.
• Contribute to the development and revision of standards of care policies and procedures.
• Serve as a clinical resource, mentor, coach, preceptor, based upon unit needs and individual preferences and/or abilities.
• Identify areas of educational needs and facilitate formal and informal learning for patients, families, Associates, and the community.
• Assess patients and family’s readiness to learn.
• Utilize patient teaching plans that incorporate evidence-based practice and evaluate effectiveness.
• Seek out a mentor to facilitate individual professional growth.

Position Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing or higher nursing degree, required (from an accredited nursing program)
• Active Florida or multi-state RN license, required
• National certification in area of clinical specialty (preferred)
• 3 years of pediatric experience in specialty area, preferred
• AHA course completion required on hire: BLS Health Care Provider, PALS

About Us

Nemours Children's Health is an internationally recognized pediatric health system serving more than 1.7 million patient encounters each year. We deliver care across six states through two freestanding children’s hospitals — Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida — along with a network of more than 80 primary, urgent, and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospital partnerships. Backed by the Nemours Foundation and Alfred I. duPont Trust, our $1.7B nonprofit system is dedicated to improving children's health through clinical care, research, education, advocacy, and prevention. Our Whole Child Health approach focuses equally on prevention and treatment, partnering with communities to help every child thrive. Inclusion and belonging guide our strategy and growth. We are committed to culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and fostering an environment where every associate, patient, and family feels supported and valued.