RN Clinical Nurse II - Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit (NSICU)

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Clinical Nurse II – Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit (NSICU)

Part-Time | Night Shift | UNC Rex Healthcare, Raleigh NC

Are you an experienced critical care nurse looking to make a meaningful impact in advanced neuro-critical care? Join our 10-bed Neurosciences Intensive Care Unit (NSICU), where you'll care for a high-acuity patient population while working alongside a highly skilled, collaborative interdisciplinary team. Our NSICU is a fast-paced environment where teamwork, clinical excellence, and compassionate patient care come together every day.

Our team specialises in caring for critically ill neurological patients with complex conditions, including:

• Subarachnoid and intracerebral haemorrhages
• Acute ischaemic stroke
• Subdural haematomas
• Postoperative neurosurgical procedures
• Brain and spine tumours
• Seizure disorders
• Neuro-infections and more

You'll collaborate closely with speech-language pathologists, respiratory, occupational, and physical therapists, social and case managers, and highly trained critical care nurses to provide world-class interdisciplinary care to patients.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver safe, high-quality critical care to complex neuro-critical patients
• Utilise state-of-the-art equipment such as external ventricular drains, continuous renal replacement therapy, electroencephalography, and point-of-care ultrasound devices
• Recognise and respond to rapidly changing patient conditions
• Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to develop individualised plans of care
• Educate and support patients and their families
• Participate in quality improvement and evidence-based practice initiatives
• Support a culture of teamwork, professional development, and clinical excellence
• Mentor and support fellow team members

What makes our team special:

• Supportive and collaborative team environment
• Engaged leadership that invests in professional development
• Strong interdisciplinary partnerships
• Opportunities for continued learning, growth, and advancement
• Clinically advanced, high-acuity patient population
• Culture focused on teamwork, respect, and excellence

Preferred qualifications:

• Prior experience on a Neuroscience ICU, ICU, Neuro, or Stepdown inpatient unit
• Strong communication and teamwork skills
• Commitment to continued learning and professional growth

If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, enjoy caring for neuro-complex patients, and want to grow your critical care expertise alongside an exceptional team, we would love to hear from you! Apply today and join the UNC Rex NSICU team, where your expertise, compassion, and commitment to excellence can make a difference every day.

Summary: Provides competent clinical nursing care consistent with professional standards. Reporting and accountable to the Nurse Manager/Director, the Clinical Nurse is responsible for coordinating and delivering patient care utilising the nursing process in a hospital setting.

Responsibilities:

1. Education - Participates in identifying and meeting learning needs of self. Attends education programs based on identified learning needs. With assistance, uses patient education materials relevant to patient population. Assesses readiness to learn of the patient/family/caregivers. Assesses developmental level of patient and factors affecting ability to learn.

1. Evaluation of Care - Identifies expected patient outcomes. Seeks guidance as needed in revision of plan of care. Participates in discussion with members of the interdisciplinary team in evaluation of patient care. Communicates relevant information to promote continuity of care.

1. Implementation - Demonstrates competence in care of patients with complex problems, including population-appropriate physical, psychosocial, educational, and safety aspects of care. Performs bedside point of care testing as required for patient care plan. Utilises healthcare organisation and nursing standards, policies, and procedures in delivery of care. Organises and prioritises care according to patient/family needs. Consults with appropriate resources in a timely fashion regarding patients with complex care issues, unusual teaching needs, and/or those at high risk for discharge planning.

1. Leadership - With assistance, develops goals to promote professional growth or minimise limitations. Achieves goals and objectives within identified time frame or renegotiates with supervisor. Is knowledgeable about activities which facilitate intra/interdepartmental collaboration. Participates in development and achievement of unit goals and performance improvement activities. Effectively uses communication systems. Participates in promoting cost-effective care. Gives feedback to co-workers. Is aware of public policy and regulatory guidelines affecting the health care environment. Promotes a safe, clean, and secure hospital environment for all.

1. Patient Assessment - Recognises data from complex situations to determine priorities for care. Includes appropriate physical, psychosocial, education, and safety needs. Synthesises assessment data into meaningful whole prior to communication to others. Assesses and anticipates discharge needs of individual patients and families. Develops relationships with families that promote their ability to advocate for the patient and their own needs.

1. Planning - Collaborates with patient/family to prepare or update the plan of care. Makes use of available multidisciplinary resources in planning care. Begins to use full range of communication as a means to convey planning. Identifies and addresses cultural and ethnic issues in planning patient care. Demonstrates ability to prioritise tasks for patients with complex problems.

1. Research - Reads journals that contain studies or articles that may be applicable to practice. Brings ideas and questions to the staff at large for assessment of applicability.