Registered Nurse (RN) - Progressive Care Unit (Nights)

About the role

Registered Nurse - Progressive Care Unit at Orlando Health St. Cloud Hospital, an 84-bed acute-care community hospital in St. Cloud, Florida. The hospital offers comprehensive emergency, inpatient and outpatient care with specialties in cardiology, critical care, infectious disease, orthopedics, radiology and surgical services. The ER includes a designated geriatric section and the hospital holds The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® for Advanced Primary Stroke Center Accreditation. The campus also hosts Outpatient Rehabilitation Services and a Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Center. Orlando Health St. Cloud has been recognized as an outstanding employer, receiving Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work award five consecutive years (2022‑2026).

Responsibilities

• Administers bedside patient care in a hospital or inpatient/observation setting under the supervision of a preceptor, leader, and/or charge nurse.
• Assesses patients’ needs and develops/revises individualized plans of care based on their needs and responses.
• Evaluates patients’ progress toward attaining expected outcomes.
• Functions as an advocate for patients and their families.
• Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served on their assigned unit/department.
• Serves as a preceptor, charge nurse, unit educator, and/or nurse clinician.
• Communicates and collaborates with medical staff and the interdisciplinary team to effectively plan and manage the unit/department.
• Coordinates patient care for a defined group and delegates tasks appropriately to team members.
• Documents patient care in a knowledgeable, skillful, and consistent manner, meeting all required and regulatory standards (including patient assessment, education, medication administration, treatments, and patient safety).
• Prioritizes patient care in an ongoing manner in accordance with Evidence‑Based Practice Standards of Care.

Qualifications

• Education/Training: Nursing school graduate; meets all mandatory, developmental, and performance competency requirements for Orlando Health and the unit/department.
• Licensure/Certification: Licensed as a Registered Nurse in the State of Florida or holds a valid Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) multistate RN license; maintains current BLS/Healthcare Provider certification; ACLS, NRP, PALS, TNCC are required for certain areas (NRP required for NICU).
• Experience: 1+ year of RN experience.

Benefits

• Student loan repayment
• Tuition reimbursement
• FREE college education programs
• Retirement savings
• Paid paternity leave
• Fertility benefits
• Backup elder and childcare
• Pet insurance
• PTO/Holidays
• And more for full‑time and part‑time employees (details available from recruiter)

Schedule

Variable Full‑Time; Nights shift: 7 pm – 7 am (three 12‑hour shifts with rotating weekends).