Job Description

The Nemours Cardiac Stepdown Unit in Wilmington, DE has rotating shift availability for full time, every third weekend and every third holiday.

Description

  • The Nemours Cardiac Center (NCC) provides comprehensive care for infants, children, and adolescents with cardiac, thoracic, and vascular disease. The Cardiac Center provides patient care, performs research, and educates and trains health care professionals in various settings, including the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and the Cardiac Step-Down Unit.

Essential Responsibilities

  • Assesses and documents initial and ongoing patient needs and problems.
  • Formulates nursing plan based on patient needs and problems and indicates plan on the patient care plan.
  • Develops realistic and appropriate long- and short-term goals based patient/family needs.
  • Implements patient plan of care
  • Evaluates the patient's and family's response to care and modified care plan accordingly.
  • Assists patient and family in discharge planning so that problems and care needs are anticipated and met.
  • Serves as an advocate for patient and family in working with other members of the health care team.
  • Provides safe and appropriate nursing care through adherence to Nursing Department standards.

Additional Requirements

  • Graduate of accredited school of nursing, BSN Preferred
  • Previous experience in pediatric/cardiac and or critical care nursing preferred.
  • Current or be eligible for registration with Delaware State Board of Nursing.
  • American Heart Association BLS required

About Us

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 .

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