High Care Neonatal Nurse

As a High Care Neonatal (HCN) nurse, you provide specialized nursing care and guidance to newborns and support their family members.

On our ward, we mostly care for newborns with more complex care needs, for example when one of the vital functions is impaired and must be supported or taken over. Here, they receive the care they need. A great challenge for every High Care Neonatal nurse looking for the challenge of performing clinical reasoning and nursing technical actions within complex care on a daily basis.

As a High Care Neonatal nurse, you will come to work within our department in an academic setting. This means that in addition to the very best care, research and education also take place. In your role, you will supervise students from the various advanced training programs that we offer internally and contribute to new (nursing) developments on the ward.

In your way of working, you will place the needs of the child and the parents at the center. We believe that the best care is provided in collaboration with the parents/caregivers. We therefore involve them in the entire care process and prepare them as optimally as possible to be able to provide care for their little one independently, with support if necessary. This is what we call co-care. Naturally, you do not do this alone. You will have an intensive collaboration with, among others, doctors, nurse practitioners, a psychologist, and social work.

We are primarily focused on stimulating parents to do more and more themselves in the care of their little one, which gives them more confidence. It is very wonderful to see. - Marieke, High Care

Do you want to be actively involved with the colleagues and care of the future? We support you in keeping your knowledge up to date, developing yourself, and passing your expertise on to the future generation of nurses!