Registered Nurse -Womens ICU

Position Summary

Orlando Health Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies Located on the downtown Orlando campus, Orlando Health Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies opened in 2006, providing programs and services focused on the unique needs of women and newborns. Specialized care covers all facets of womens health from comprehensive gynecological services and minimally invasive surgeries to obstetrics and high-risk pregnancies and births. The hospital is Magnet" recognized for nursing excellence and high-quality patient care and is certified in perinatal care by The Joint Commission. Welcoming nearly 14,000 babies each year, the hospitals 350 beds include 142 neonatal intensive care beds, making it one of the largest neonatal intensive care units under one roof in the country.

As a sister hospital with Orlando Health Arnold Palmer for Children, the hospital was included in the 2021-22 Best Childrens Hospitals" rankings by U.S. News & World Report, recognized for expertise in Neonatology, and together with Orlando Health ORMC was included in the IBM Watson Health 100 Top Hospitals® list for 2021.

Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies Womens Intensive Care Unit

The function of Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies WPHWB Womens Intensive Care Unit WICU is based on the primary care model principles. As a Level III Perinatal Center, the Womens Intensive Care Unit provides comprehensive care on a 24-hour, 7-day a week basis. The unit has five beds to provide highly skilled medical and nursing care to the critically ill female patient.

Clinically, the unit provides advanced hemodynamic monitoring, artificial airway, and ventilator management, obstetrical monitoring, and other treatments that are necessary to aggressively treat the complex, acutely ill, and critically ill female patient. Care of the patient is through a multi-disciplinary team including the medical and/or surgical critical care Intensivist and the maternal-fetal medical team.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions:

• 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.
• Monitors and adjusts 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.
• Assesses patients needs and develops/revises an individualized plan of care based on patient needs and responses.
• Evaluates the patients progress toward attaining expected outcomes.
• Respects diversity by building respectful relationships with all team members and customers.
• 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.
• Serves as a preceptor, charge nurse, unit educator, and/or nurse clinician.
• Communicates and collaborates with medical staff and interdisciplinary team to effectively plan and manage the unit department.
• Serves as a role model for staff and supports the hospital and nursing departments goals and strategies.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span, assesses the data reflective of the patients status, and interprets the necessary information needed to identify each patients requirements relative to his or her age-specific needs.
• Coordinates the care and delegates as appropriate to other team members on a defined group of patients.
• Documents patient care in a knowledgeable, skillful, and consistent manner meeting all required and regulatory standards.
• This includes but is not limited to patient assessment, education, medication administration, treatments, and patient safety.
• Demonstrates competency in nursing skills and use of patient care/unit equipment as defined by unit department-specific requisite skills.
• Prioritizes patient care in an ongoing manner in accordance with Evidence-Based Practice Standards of Care.
• Practices effective problem identification and resolution.
• Delegates tasks and duties to healthcare team members in accordance with the patients needs and the team members capabilities and qualifications.
• Communicates appropriate information regarding patient condition or unit concerns to other health care team members.
• Demonstrates caring practices by providing a compassionate and therapeutic environment for patients and their families.
• Demonstrates awareness of legal issues and patients rights.
• Collaborates with the education department and nursing leadership team to effectively transition and support new team members and/or students.
• Maintains reasonably regular punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA, and other federal, state, and local standards.
• Maintains compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedures.

Other Related Functions:

• The professional nurse contributes to the knowledge and skills of others and the continuous improvement of the quality of health care practice and organizational outcomes.
• Participates and may lead unit level and/or organizational level committees of nursing practice and performance improvement.
• Participates in department and organizational peer review, mentoring, and coaching regarding professional practice or role performance.
• Practices efficient use of supplies and maintains a clean, safe, and organized work area.
• Attends staff development in-services, department meetings, and/or nursing committee meetings.
• Partners with the nursing leadership team to identify professional development needs.
• Assumes responsibility for ones own professional development and continuing education.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Education/Training: Graduate of an approved school of nursing.
• Meets all mandatory developmental and performance competency requirements for Orlando Health and unit department.
• Licensure/Certification: • Maintains current State of Florida RN license or valid eNLC multistate RN license. • Maintains current BLS/Healthcare Provider certification. • ACLS, NRP, PALS, TNCC are required for certain areas. NRP required for Neonatal Intensive care Unit (NICU).
• Experience: Prefer 2 years experience in ICU/ICC or high-risk OB.