Registered Nurse, ORMC Cardiovascular ICU

Orlando Health • United States, Florida, Orlando • $0 / year • 4d ago

Position Summary

Located on the downtown Orlando campus, Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center (ORMC) has served the Central Florida area for more than 100 years. Orlando Health is a 3,238-bed system that includes 23 hospitals and emergency departments – 18 of which are currently operational with five coming soon. Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center is honored to receive ANCC Magnet Recognition®, the most prestigious distinction a healthcare organization can earn for nursing practice and quality patient care. Research shows that Magnet hospitals and healthcare organizations have better outcomes, patient satisfaction and nurse retention. Orlando Health ORMC is the only adult acute care hospital with Magnet designation in Orlando.

Cardiovascular ICU

Cardiovascular Intensive Care is a 12-bed unit. We care for critically ill cardiac patients, post-code blue patients and post-interventional cardiac catheterization. Our patients receive 12 lead EKG monitoring, ventilator care, advanced hemodynamics, intra-aortic balloon pump monitoring, and more. CVRR specializes in the care for patients post heart or lung surgery such as CABG, Thoracotomy, Maze Procedure, Valve Replacement, Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TVAR). We do prefer previous experience but are currently partnering with Cardiac PCU and Cardiovascular Stepdown to help prepare for our higher level of care.

The RN Advanced Care administers patient care in an area in a hospital or inpatient setting where patients have an advanced illness or injury that routinely requires timely, intense, and complex care to stabilize and support the patient’s medical condition. These areas require a lower caregiver-to-patient ratio and highly trained team members with advanced skills.

Shift

VFT, Nights 7pm-7am

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 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.

Experience

None required.

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 patient’s needs and develops/revises an individualized plan of care based on patient needs and responses. Evaluates the patient’s 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 department’s goals and strategies.
- Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span, assesses the data reflective of the patient’s status, and interprets the necessary information needed to identify each patient’s 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.