Registered Nurse - Interventional Radiology at Lake Mary Hospital

Overview

Department: LMH Imaging - Diag

Schedule: 24 hours a week | 3-8 Hour Shifts;
First Shift | Varied Week Days

Title: Registered Nurse, Advanced Care

Orlando Health Lake Mary Hospital

The NEW Orlando Health Lake Mary Hospital represents Orlando Health’s continued commitment to the Seminole County community, which we have proudly served for 40 years. As a comprehensive acute care facility, the hospital offers a full scope of medical and surgical services, including cardiovascular, general surgery, orthopedics, and women’s services with labor and delivery, alongside a future NICU. Opening with 124 beds, the 455,000 square foot hospital will be able to expand to up to 240 beds.

State-of-the-art facilities include operating rooms, catheterization labs, interventional radiology, a vascular lab, an ICU and a full-service emergency department.

Department: LMH Imaging - Diag
Status: Part-time | 24 hours a week | 3-8 Hour Shifts

Schedule: First Shift | Varied Week Days

Title: Registered Nurse, Advanced 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.

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 monitors and related devices.
• Responds to life-saving situations based on nursing standards and protocol.
• Observes, monitors, and assesses patients’ condition, recognizes serious situations, and calls Physician or takes preplanned emergency measures when Physician is not immediately available.
• Assesses patient needs and develops/revises an individualized plan of care; evaluates progress toward outcomes.
• Respects diversity by building respectful relationships with all team members and customers; acts as patient and family advocate.
• Demonstrates advanced knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served.
• Serves as a preceptor, charge nurse, unit educator, and/or nurse clinician; collaborates with medical staff and interdisciplinary team to plan and manage the unit/department.
• Maintains regular, punctual attendance and compliance with policies.
• Documents patient care in a knowledgeable, skillful, and compliant manner; includes assessment, education, medication administration, treatments, and safety.
• Demonstrates competency in nursing skills and unit equipment; prioritizes patient care per Evidence-Based Practice standards.
• Delegates tasks appropriately and communicates patient condition or unit concerns to the care team.
• Provides a compassionate and therapeutic environment and demonstrates awareness of legal issues and patients’ rights.
• Collaborates with education and nursing leadership to transition and support new team members and students.
• Maintains compliance with Orlando Health policies and procedures.

• Contributes to knowledge and skills of others and supports continuous quality improvement.
• Participates in unit or organizational committees focused on nursing practice and performance improvement.
• Engages in peer review, mentoring, coaching, and department development activities.
• Maintains tidy, safe, and organized work areas; attends staff development and department meetings.
• Collaborates with nursing leadership to identify professional development needs and pursues ongoing education.
• Pursues professional development opportunities and performs other duties as assigned.

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

• Current licensure as a registered nurse in the State of Florida or Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC).
• Current BLS/Healthcare Provider certification.
• ACLS, NRP, PALS, TNCC are required for certain areas.

Experience

• Must have critical care experience and be comfortable with IVs, sedation, port access, and radiology procedures.