RN Inpatient Rehab (Nights)

About the Role

Nemours is seeking a Registered Nurse (In-patient Rehab) to join the team at Nemours Children's Hospital in Orlando, Florida. This full-time position is for night shifts.

Nemours Children's Hospital is a 100-bed pediatric facility featuring the area’s only 24-hour Emergency Department designed exclusively for children, along with outpatient pediatric clinics offering specialties previously unavailable in the region. The hospital blends the healing power of nature with the latest in healthcare innovation to deliver world-class care to children in Central Florida and beyond.

Responsibilities

The "Practice of professional nursing" includes, but is not limited to:

• Observation, assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, intervention, and evaluation of care.
• Health teaching and counseling of the ill, injured, or infirm, and promotion of wellness, maintenance of health, and prevention of illness.
• Administration of medications and treatments as prescribed by a licensed practitioner.
• Supervision and teaching of other personnel in the performance of nursing acts.

Clinical Judgment

• Utilize policies, procedures, guidelines, and reliable methods to make clinical practice decisions.
• Independently develop, implement, evaluate, and modify clinical practice using formal knowledge, critical thinking, and nursing skills.
• Collect and interpret complex patient data to make clinical decisions that meet individual patient and family needs.
• Recognize and respond to dynamic situations while exercising clinical judgment based on an immediate grasp of the whole picture for the assigned patient population.
• Engage in multidisciplinary collaboration, seek expert consultation, and delegate to other clinicians as appropriate, using evidence-based guidelines.

Clinical Inquiry

• Demonstrate knowledge-seeking behaviors and identify clinical questions.
• Seek advice, resources, and education opportunities to improve patient care.
• Participate in the research process and implement changes in practice based on evidence.

Caring Practices

• Create a safe, compassionate, supportive, and therapeutic environment for patients, families, and associates.
• Promote comfort and healing while preventing unnecessary suffering through vigilance, engagement, and responsiveness.
• Develop professional and trusting relationships that facilitate patient/family coping while maintaining appropriate boundaries.

Response to Diversity

• Recognize, appreciate, and incorporate differences into patient and family-centered care, including cultural, spiritual, gender/gender identity, lifestyle, race, ethnicity, linguistic, socioeconomic status, age, developmental, and values.
• Demonstrate effective communication methods to meet patient and family health care literacy needs.
• Preserve and protect the confidentiality, autonomy, dignity, and rights of patients and families.
• Acknowledge and adapt to the organizational culture and healthcare environment.

Advocacy/Moral Agency

• 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 toward resolution of ethical and moral issues.
• Initiate ethics consults when appropriate.
• Serve as a moral agent in identifying and helping to resolve ethical and clinical concerns within and outside the clinical setting.

Collaboration

• Work with patients, families, and associates to promote each person’s contributions toward achieving optimal patient and family goals.
• Participate in team meetings and discussions regarding patient care and/or practice issues.
• Engage in intra- and inter-professional work with colleagues and the community.
• Participate in nursing/hospital governance, councils, committees, ad hoc teams, and initiatives to improve clinical practice and patient care outcomes.

Systems Thinking

• 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 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.

Facilitation of Learning

• Identify areas of educational needs and facilitate formal and informal learning for patients, families, associates, and the community.
• Assess patients' and families' readiness to learn.
• Utilize patient teaching plans that incorporate evidence-based practice and evaluate effectiveness.
• Seek out a mentor to facilitate individual professional growth.
• Serve as a mentor, coach, or preceptor based on unit needs and individual preferences and/or abilities.

Requirements

• ASN required.
• Active Florida or multi-state RN license required.
• National certification in area of clinical specialty preferred.
• Minimum of 6 months of RN experience required; experience in a pediatric specialty area preferred.
• The following must be obtained within 30 days of hire:
  • Valid American Heart Association BLS Certification.
  • Valid American Heart Association PALS certification.

About Us

Nemours Children's Health is an internationally recognized pediatric health system serving over 1.7 million patient encounters annually. 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 over 40 hospital partnerships.

Backed by the Nemours Foundation and Alfred I. duPont Trust, our $1.7 billion 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, ensuring culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and fostering an environment where every associate, patient, and family feels supported and valued.