Registered Nurse (RN) - Rapid Response Team (Nights)

Position Summary

Department: DPH Rapid Response
Status: Variable
Shift: Nights (7pm - 7am)

About the Role

Orlando Health Dr. P. Phillips is recognized as a "Best Regional Hospital" by U.S. News & World Report and selected as one of the "Best Places to Work in Healthcare" by Modern Healthcare. As a full-service medical/surgical facility, we provide comprehensive care in specialties like diagnostic imaging, cardiovascular care, orthopedic care, surgical services, and emergency medicine. In 2025, we opened the onsite Team Member Wellness Center, offering a state-of-the-art fitness facility, tranquility space, and wellness activities.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Maintains 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 when Physician is not immediately available.
• Affirms patient and family needs and develops/revises an individualized plan of care based on patient needs and responses.
• Evaluates the patient's progress toward attaining expected outcomes.
• Functions as a patient and family advocate.
• Demonstrates advanced knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served on his or her assigned unit/department.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an approved school of nursing.
• Maintains current licensure as a registered nurse in the State of Florida or Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC).
• Maintains current BLS/Healthcare Provider certification.
• ACLS, NRP, PALS, TNCC are required for certain areas.
• 2+ years of RN experience within critical care settings such as ICU or ER.