Staff Nurse: NICU (Future New Grad/Spring 2025)

Full-time, 36 hours/week
7pm-7:30am
Onsite

Are you a soon to be new grad/future RN passionate about making a difference in neonatal care? We are looking for compassionate, driven new grads to join our Level 3 or Level 4 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). As part of these units, you'll have the unique opportunity to care for a diverse patient population of neonates and their families. If you're ready to begin your nursing career in one of the most rewarding and specialized areas of healthcare, this is the place for you.

Why Choose Us?

• Specialized Care: Work in a Level 3 or 4 NICU, providing care for a wide range of neonates.
• Personalized Training: Participate in our New Grad Nurse Residency Program with hands-on experience, mentorship, and training tailored to help you excel.
• High-Impact Environment: You'll provide focused care to critically ill as well as convalescing neonates and their families in a fast-paced, high-acuity setting.

Summary:

The Staff Nurse provides to individuals and groups, nursing care requiring specialized knowledge judgment and skill derived from the principles of biological physical, behavioral, social and nursing sciences. Assesses, plans, implements, evaluates and directs nursing care with a family centered care focus for individual/group of patients within scope of practice, as assigned.

Responsibilities:

1. Performs leadership and professional duties.

2. Performs patient-centered care duties.

3. Performs quality improvement and safety duties.

4. Performs evidence-based practice duties.

5. Performs informatics and technology duties.

6. Performs communication, collaboration, and teamwork duties.

7. Performs systems-based practice duties.

8. Staff may be temporarily assigned to an area throughout the Akron Children’s Hospital enterprise, based on patient needs requiring similar knowledge and skill.

9. Other duties as required.

Other information: 

Technical Expertise

1. Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care for the physical, psychosocial, educational, and safety needs of the patients served regardless of age and developmental status is required.

2. Experience in nursing dependent on population served may be required.

3. Experience in prioritizing and managing tasks for timely completion is required.

4. Experience working with all levels within an organization is required.

5. Experience in healthcare is preferred.

6. Proficiency in MS Office [Outlook, Excel, Word] or similar software is required. Epic software or similar EMR software is preferred. 

Education and Experience

1. Education: Bachelor’s in Nursing [BSN] is required or must be obtained within 5 years of hire.

2. Certification: Licensed to practice professional nursing in the state of Ohio is required.

• Current Health Care Provider BLS training from the American Heart Association is required.
• Additional certifications may be required based on the assigned department or unit.

3. Years of relevant experience: 0 to 2 years is preferred.4. Years of experience supervising: None

Full Time

FTE: 0.900000

Status: Onsite