High Care Pediatric Nurse

As a High Care Pediatric Nurse, you care for children from 0 to 18 years old with various conditions and provide specialist nursing care. You will work in an incredibly beautiful department with many different specialties. From neurology to surgery and from congenital abnormalities to home ventilation. That characterizes our department: the great diversity and complexity of clinical pictures requiring very specific nursing care.

But what is the difference with Pediatric Intensive Care, then? High Care involves monitoring and supporting threatened or disturbed vital body functions, but they are not fully taken over. We provide high-tech care, but patients are not invasively ventilated with us. We also treat patients with an increased risk of failure of one or more organ functions, such as the heart, lungs, and kidneys. This can be, for example, pharmacological through the use of cardiotonics. But also through technical support in the form of (tracheostomal) non-invasive ventilation, optiflow, peritoneal dialysis, or a ventricular assist device for patients waiting for a heart transplant.