Job Details: RN - ICU - Full Time - Days - East Orlando

Company: Florida Hospital – We care for more than 1 million patients each year. We could use your help!

Description: Being one of the top 5 Heart Hospitals in the United States, we perform over 2500 open heart surgeries annually.
Hospital Description:

Florida Hospital East Orlando, a 224-bed full service community hospital that serves as one of Florida Hospital's seven satellite facilities, became part of the Florida Hospital system in 1990.
Florida Hospital is operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It serves as a community hospital for Greater Orlando and as a major tertiary referral hospital for Central Florida and much of the Southeast, the Caribbean and South America. Adventist Health System operates 38 hospitals in ten states making it the largest not-for-profit protestant healthcare system in the United States
• Number of inpatients 12,937
• Number of outpatients 61,089
• Number of emergency cases 64,275
• Number of licensed beds 224
• Number of critical care beds (Includes ICU, CCU, ICU/CCU, PCU) 80
• Number of staff physicians and dentists 150
• Number of employees 1300+
• Ranked as One of America's Best Hospitals by US News & World Report
• National Research Corporation Consumer Choice Award
• Premier Award for Quality, in the area of Acute Myocardial Infarction (heart attack)

Unit Description:
The Multi-system Intensive Care Unit (ICU) features 24 beds and is located on the 4th floor of our new West Tower. Our Multi-System Intensive Care unit is a combined medical and surgical unit. The nurses on this unit care for patients with multi-system disorders, ranging from acute coronary conditions to multi-organ failure. This ICU also supports patients requiring advanced hemodynamic monitoring, ventilators and intra-aortic balloon therapy. The Florida Hospital East Orlando ICU is comprised of a caring multidisciplinary team of Nurses, physicians and support staff to meet the needs of their patients.

Job Description:
The RN is a registered professional nurse who is responsible for providing and supervising direct and indirect total nursing care responsibilities to identified age specific groups. The RN utilizes the nursing process (assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating) in achieving the goals of the nursing department. The RN adheres to the Florida Hospital Corporate Compliance Plan and to all rules and regulations of all applicable local, state and federal agencies and accrediting bodies. The RN actively participates in outstanding customer service and accepts responsibility in maintaining relationships that are equally respectful to all.

Job Requirements:
•One year of recent Critical Care experience required
•Basic Life Support (BLS) required
•Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) required
•Must be a graduate of a school of nursing
•Must be a Registered Nurse licensed in the state of Florida or actively pursuing reciprocity from another state. For more information on RN licensure in the state of Florida please visit http://www.doh.state.fl.us/Mqa/nursing/ap_licensure-RN-LPN.pdf
Catherine Owen
Lead Recruitment Strategist
Florida Hospital Human Resources
Phone: 407-200-2495 / 877-FLA-HIRE
Fax: 407-200-4990
Catherine.Owen@flhosp.org

Posting Date: Sep 16 08