# RN - Inpatient Float Pool Pediatrics **Company**: UNC Health **Location**: Chapel Hill, NC **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $34.22 - $48.38 per hour **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://jobs.unchealthcare.org/jobs/18435606-rn-inpatient-float-pool-pediatrics?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/rn-inpatient-float-pool-pediatrics-6e37763d-e02/ ## Description The Inpatient Float Pool is looking for Experienced Nurses for Pediatric Services! This position offers an excellent benefit package and incentives for qualified candidates. Our team supports Pediatric acute care units and Pediatric ICU, Pediatric Cardiac ICU, NCCC, and Children's ED. This is a full-time position with 3-12 hour shifts per week, including days, nights, and weekend rotation. We welcome nurses who are energetic, adaptable, patient-centered, and strong communicators. Successful candidates possess a solid foundation in nursing practice, thrive in dynamic environments, and are committed to providing safe, family-centered care. As a member of the Flex Team, you'll enjoy a variety of clinical experiences, with each assignment offering new opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Precepting is individualized based on your skill set and experience level. Preference will be given to applicants with 18 months of recent hospital experience. **Responsibilities:** - 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. - 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. - 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. Utilizes healthcare organization and nursing standards, policies, and procedures in delivery of care. Organizes and prioritizes 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. - Leadership: With assistance, develops goals to promote professional growth or minimize 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. - Patient Assessment: Recognizes data from complex situations to determine priorities for care. Includes appropriate physical, psychosocial, education, and safety needs. Synthesizes 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. - 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 prioritize tasks for patients with complex problems. - 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. **Requirements:** - Graduate of a Board of Nursing approved nursing education program. - If hired after January 6, 2014, must be enrolled within four years of employment, and obtain a Bachelor's degree with a major in Nursing or a Master's degree with a major in Nursing within seven years of employment date. - Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of North Carolina. - Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Provider certification. - One (1) year of nursing experience. For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - Registered Nurse - Basic Life Support (BLS) ### Nice to have - 18 months of recent hospital experience --- Source: [Apply at jobs.unchealthcare.org](https://jobs.unchealthcare.org/jobs/18435606-rn-inpatient-float-pool-pediatrics?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)