Medium Care Nurse in Training

• during your training, you receive a salary in FWG 45 depending on training and work experience. After graduation, you will be scaled into scale FWG 50 (max € 4,914.- gross per month based on 36 hours per week)
• a pre-work period of at least 2 months
• practical guidance by experts
• a challenging learning environment in a team of specialized nurses, physician assistants, intensivists, and many other disciplines
• 100% reimbursement of travel expenses by public transport and the usual travel expense allowance by car
• 100% reimbursement of study costs and study books
• unlimited access to our vitality platform 'Jouw Moment' with an extensive range for Noordwesters to get started with vitality (including online training from Goodhabitz) a good employment benefits package, including a fixed end-of-year bonus and holiday allowance of both 8.33% and, for example, a bicycle plan

Ready for a new challenge and looking to deepen your expertise as a nurse? As a medium care (MC) nurse in Alkmaar and in Den Helder, you will provide highly specialized and highly complex care to our patients. The team observes, treats, and monitors patients using advanced equipment and guidance. Curious? Come closer and start with us at the AAZ (acute care department) or on the high care general (medium care) as a medium care nurse in training.

The medium care unit recently moved to the newly built hospital and, together with the CCU and BCU, forms the high care department. This is the first high care in the Netherlands, so it is a great opportunity to be part of this new process.

medium care nurse in training:
You begin your day with highly complex care for patients. At the medium care departments of Noordwest, patients lie who require intensive monitoring and care. You keep a close eye on your patients and serve as the eyes and ears of the doctors so that you can inform them effectively. In addition to providing the right care, you will also learn to work together in a multidisciplinary team and offer the right guidance to patients and their families. As a team, we work well together, but as an MC nurse in training, you will also learn to work well independently.

medium care nurse:
The training lasts 12 - 15 months, excluding 2 months of pre-work, with an employment of 28-32 hours; this depends on the location where you are hired. Practical training takes place at the high care general (medium care) in Alkmaar and the acute care department (AAZ) in Den Helder. The practical learning route alternates locations, so that you become well-acquainted with both locations and can work on all EPAs during the training. During the training, you will complete internships in high care cardiology (CCU) and HCK, the intensive care, the anesthesia and recovery departments (Alkmaar or Den Helder), and the AAZ in Den Helder (if you are being trained for the Alkmaar location).
The theoretical training is followed at the Amstel Academie in Amsterdam. To achieve the integration of working and learning, the training center has chosen EPA education, a flexible modular system.

Experience of Anneke (MC nurse in training Alkmaar):
I chose the medium care training because I was looking for more depth in medical knowledge, clinical reasoning, and applying nursing care at a more complex level. At the same time, I also wanted to be able to have contact with the patient in a vulnerable phase of their illness process and be of added value in this. I find this combination on the MC. What I also like is that the MC is a relatively small department, which means there is a lot of attention for the patient. At the same time, there is a variety of clinical pictures. What I find very motivating is that the further you progress in the training, the more puzzle pieces fall into place and you learn these clinical pictures and underlying systems, along with the corresponding care, better and better.

Experience of Jente and Megan (MC nurses in training AAZ):
As a trainee on the MC, you care for one or two patients. These are often more complex cases, where clinical reasoning is a must. They are patients who require intensive care and often need continuous hemodynamic monitoring. The pleasant, open attitude of fellow nurses and doctors ensures a safe learning environment, allowing us as trainees to truly feel heard and to ask all our questions.
You don't have to fear a lack of challenge/stimulation on the AAZ. Due to the combined department (ER, IC/MC, observatory), plenty of interesting cases come your way. From caring for postoperative patients to assisting during resuscitations.
No lack of variety! Will we see you soon as our new colleague?

high care and AAZ:
Within Noordwest, we have MC beds in two locations:

• The MC department in Alkmaar consists of 4 beds on the High Care
• The MC department in Den Helder consists of 4 beds and is part of the Acute Care Department. After your training, you will work at the permanent location for which you were hired, whereby exchange is a requirement.

The team observes, treats, and monitors patients using advanced equipment and guidance. With our small, close-knit team of high care general (medium care) nurses, we take daily responsibility for four patients and work intensively with the intensivist, physician assistants, and other disciplines such as the treatment team. At the moment the patient requires intensive care, he/she is stabilized and transferred to the intensive care. The close cooperation with the intensive care ensures that highly complex care can be offered on the medium care with many learning opportunities. With us, you work in a dynamic environment where we value the quality of care. On our high care general (medium care), patients lie postoperatively after various surgical procedures (including neurosurgery), but traumatology and internal medicine are also examples of specialties. All patient categories are mixed. Additionally, we place the guidance of family and patient at the center, an important task for you! Furthermore, you work together with the team of high care cardiology (CCU) and high care neurology/neurosurgery (BCU).

The medium care is part of the 'acute care department'. A unique department where we do things completely differently. To stay ahead in the development of sustainable, innovative, and affordable healthcare, we have organized our acute care differently. We now work together in a unique way: the emergency room (ER) in combination with the GP post, observatory, and medium care (MC). This ensures short lines, different collegial collaborations, and the best specialist care for the patient. A unique place with which we are leading the way in the Netherlands! As an MC nurse, you have an important role with much challenge in this.

medium care nurse in training:
Are you that enthusiastic, motivated colleague with the ambition to provide highly complex care? You have a good capacity for clinical reasoning. As a person, you can organize well, can set priorities, and have a proactive learning attitude. You are flexible and enthusiastic, patient- and service-oriented, and are able to follow a demanding study alongside your job. Can you work shifts according to the roster at both locations? Also, care is constantly changing; we are looking for a nurse who has a heart for care and does not shy away from a challenge to contribute to a pleasant and new workplace.

Furthermore, you bring:

Then we are looking for you!

Have you become curious about what it is like to work with us? Then respond quickly!

Shadowing for a day at both locations is part of the application procedure.

Our offer for you...

About Noordwest...:
Noordwest Ziekenhuisgroep is a top-clinical hospital. This means that we are a teaching hospital for almost all medical specialties. With 770 beds, over 4500 employees, 550 volunteers, and about 340 medical specialists, Noordwest Ziekenhuisgroep is one of the largest hospital organizations in the Netherlands and a large employer in Noord-Holland. We believe that everyone should be able to count on caring for one another. Caring for one another in Noord-Holland Noord. That is also the mission of Noordwest. Now and tomorrow. Our core values are looking out for one another, acting with decisiveness, and being top-clinical with pride. Additionally, there is a pleasant working atmosphere: with us, lines are short, we communicate openly with each other, we are collegial, and we find humor important!

Come closer!:
If you want to know more about this vacancy, please call Maaike Vermeer, senior recruiter, via 06 82 12 93 73. For more information about the position or department, please contact:

Alkmaar

• Lisa Wortel (MC team leader) via telephone number 06-51609705 or in her absence via the secretariat of the other team leaders at 072 548 2670 for questions regarding the position and the department.
• Practical instructor Pleuni Mc Alees-Timmer via telephone number 088-085 2337 or via ICU-MCUpraktijkopleiders@nwz.nl. for questions regarding the training.

Den Helder

• Maja Broekhuijsen (AAZ team leader) via telephone number 088-085 1454, for questions regarding the position and the department.
• Practical instructor Monique Smits-Schouten via telephone number 088 - 085 6374, for questions regarding the training.