Registered Nurse - Inpatient Unit

About This Role

Provide specialized, family-centered health care to children with medically complex conditions, disabilities, and chronic illness within an inpatient unit setting, ensuring a safe and therapeutic environment.

Responsibilities

• Complete initial and ongoing assessments and actively seek assistance to verify assessments/changes noted
• Identify problems (e.g., nursing diagnosis) and add to problem list/kardex
• Carry out interventions defined in policy or individual plan of care as well as prescribed orders
• Maintain working knowledge of routine procedures, techniques, and treatments as defined in policy
• Evaluate interventions against desired goals and seek input on changes
• Document assessments, interventions, and patient responses, both manually and electronically
• Maintain a safe and therapeutic patient care environment by providing care that follows policies and procedures and is in accord with the Illinois Nurse Practice Act
• Demonstrate Unit specific skills and competencies (e.g, Tracheostomy Certification)
• Assess patient/family readiness to learning and provide patient/family education
• Delegate patient care tasks to other members of team, including assigning responsibilities and evaluating completion

Requirements

• Licensed as a Registered Professional Nurse in the State of Illinois
• Bachelor’s degree in nursing required
• CPR required (American Heart Association or American Red Cross certifications accepted)

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing

Nice to Have

• Pediatric, PICU & NICU experience

Certifications