Charge Nurse - Hematology Oncology - (Hem/Onc) DAYS

Nemours in; Orlando (FL); Vor Ort; USD 55.000 - 83.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Nemours Children's Hospital in Orlando, Florida is seeking a FULL-TIME Hem/Onc Charge Registered Nurse for a 30-hour work week. This role offers clinical complexity, strong team support, and opportunities for professional growth within a mission-driven organization.

Shifts available: DAYS 7A-7P and NIGHTS 7P-7A. The Charge Nurse leads unit operations, collaborates with a diverse care team, and ensures high-quality patient care in a pediatric Hematology/Oncology setting.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing or higher nursing degree.
• Active Florida or multi-state RN license.

Aufgaben

• The Charge Nurse implements the patient care delivery model for the patient and their family.
• Use policies, procedures, guidelines to make clinical practice decisions.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe, effective patient care.
• Facilitate timeliness of admissions, transfers, and discharges.
• Mentor and precept staff as needed.

Kenntnisse

RN license

Clinical leadership

Ausbildung

Bachelor of Science in Nursing or higher

Jobbeschreibung

Charge Nurse - Hematology Oncology - (Hem/Onc) DAYS (Finance)

Hem/Onc Charge Registered Nurse - FULL-TIME open!!

Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida | Orlando

Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida is seeking a FULL-TIME (30 hours per week) Hem/Onc Charge Registered Nurse to join our Hem/Onc team. This role is ideal for experienced pediatric nurses seeking clinical complexity, strong team support, and opportunities for professional growth within a stable, mission-driven organization.

Shifts available

• DAYS -7A-7P
• NIGHTS - 7P-7A

Nemours Children's Health is an internationally recognized children's health system. With more than 1.7 million patient encounters annually, we provide medical care in five states through two freestanding state-of-the-art children's hospitals - Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida. Our pediatric network includes 80 primary-urgent-and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospitalists serving 19 affiliated hospitals. We generate annual revenues of more than $1.7 billion derived from patient services, contributions from the Alfred I. DuPont Trust, as well as other income.

As one of the nation's premier pediatric health systems, we're on a journey to discover better ways of approaching children's health. Putting as much focus on prevention as cures and working hand in hand with the community to make every child's world a place to thrive. It's a journey that extends beyond our nationally recognized clinical treatment to an entire integrated spectrum of research, advocacy, education, and prevention, leading to the healthiest generations of children ever.

Inclusion and belonging guide our growth and strategy. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about, and committed to, leading efforts to provide culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and helping build an inclusive and supportive environment. All of our associates are expected to ensure that these philosophies are embedded in their day-to-day work with colleagues, patients and families.

To learn more about Nemours Children's and how we go well beyond medicine, visit us at www.nemours.org .

Charge nurse is a member of the unit leadership: supervises staff and is accountable for daily shift operations.

"Practice of professional nursing" means the performance of those acts requiring substantial specialized knowledge, judgment, and nursing skill based upon applied principles of psychological, biological, physical, and social sciences which shall include, but not be limited to:

(a)The observation, assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, intervention, and evaluation of care; health teaching and counseling of the ill, injured, or infirm; and the promotion of wellness, maintenance of health, and prevention of illness of others.

(b)The administration of medications and treatments as prescribed or authorized by a duly licensed practitioner authorized by the laws of this state to prescribe such medications and treatments.

(c)The supervision and teaching of other personnel in the theory and performance of any of the acts.

Nurse Practice Act. The 2016 Florida Statues, Title XXXII, Regulation of Professions and Occupations. Retrieved from http://floridasnursing.gov/resources

Position Responsibilities

• The Charge Nurse implements the patient care delivery model for the patient and their family.

Clinical Judgment

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

Clinical Inquiry

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

Caring Practices

• Create a safe, compassionate, supportive, and therapeutic environment for patients, family, and Associates.
• Promote comfort and healing and prevent unnecessary suffering with 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 the provision of patient and family centered care, including cultural, spiritual, gender/gender identity, lifestyle, race, ethnicity, linguistic, socioeconomic status, age, developmental, and values.
• Demonstrate effective methods of communication as required to meet the patient and family health care literacy needs.
• Preserve and protect the confidentiality, autonomy, dignity, and rights of patient and families.
• Acknowledge and adapt to the organizational culture and healthcare environment.

Advocacy/ Moral Agency

• Serve as a moral agent in identifying and help to resolve ethical and clinical concerns within and outside the clinical setting.
• Advocate on behalf of patients, families, and Associates while promoting adherence to the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses.
• Act as resource for patients and families working towards resolution of ethical and moral issues. Initiate ethics consult when appropriate.

Collaboration

• Effectively communicate and collaborate with nursing leaders and the inter-professionals within the hospital system.
• Work with patients, families, and Associates in a way that respectfully promotes each person's contributions toward developing and achieving optimal patient and family goals across the continuum.
• Participate in team meetings and discussions regarding patient care and/or practice issues.
• Involve intra- and inter-professional work with colleagues and community.
• Participate in nursing/hospital governance, councils, committees, ad hoc teams and/or initiatives to improve clinical practice and patient care outcomes.

Systems Thinking

• Facilitate timeliness of patient admissions, transfers, and discharges.
• Use the daily management systems and escalation through the chain of command.
• 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 that are 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

• Serve as a clinical resource, mentor, coach, preceptor, based upon unit needs and individual preferences and/or abilities.
• Identify areas of educational needs and facilitate formal and informal learning for patients, families, Associates, and the community.
• Assess patients and family's readiness to learn.
• Utilize patient teaching plans that incorporate evidence based practice and evaluate effectiveness.
• Seek out a mentor to facilitate individual professional growth.
• Participate in professional activities such as inter-professional/nursing teams or councils or committees or membership and/or leadership role in professional associations.
• Assume responsibility for professional growth and development.
• Maintain a current knowledge base through participation in professional activities.
• Performs all other related tasks as necessary

Position Requirements

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing or higher nursing degree, required (from an accredited nursing program)**
• Active Florida or multi-state RN license, required

Course Completion within 30 days of hire date

• BLS Health Care Provider
• PALS

Classes

• APHON Chemotherapy/Biotherapy provider - Hematology/Oncology and Infusion Center within 6 months of hire
• National certification in area of clinical specialty (preferred)

**INTERNAL CANDIDATES ONLY: ASN required; If RN does not have a bachelor's or higher graduate degree in nursing, the RN is required to make steady progress to achieving a BSN or graduate degree in nursing (Progress is defined as enrolled in an accredited BSN program or graduate degree in nursing program and completing courses each year).

About Us

Nemours Children's Health is an internationally recognized pediatric health system serving more than 1.7 million patient encounters each year. 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 more than 40 hospital partnerships.

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

Learn more at Nemours.org .