High Care Pediatric Nurse

Are you an enthusiastic and dedicated pediatric nurse with a heart for highly complex care, and are you ready for your next career step? Do you want to contribute to academic care for vitally threatened children and be part of a close-knit and professional team? Then we are looking for you!

About the position
As a pediatric nurse within our High Care (HC) team, you play a crucial role in the care of children who require highly complex and multidisciplinary nursing care. You work in an academic environment, where you get the opportunity to work with the latest techniques and treatments. After a thorough induction period, in which you get to know the procedures and patients well, you will start working independently with the care of our High Care children. These are children who may be vitally threatened for various reasons and therefore require highly complex, multi-, and interdisciplinary care.

After your induction period, you will start the CZO-recognized, national High Care training. This training offers lessons at various locations throughout the country, giving you a unique insight into the working methods of different PICUs (Pediatric Intensive Care Units).

• Control over the care process: You coordinate and perform nursing care for sick children, including cannula care and ventilation. In doing so, you work according to the latest academic standards and guidelines.
• Parental guidance: You instruct parents and caregivers about medical actions and procedures that they must perform at home. In this way, you contribute to a safe and reliable transition from hospital to home care.
• Multidisciplinary collaboration: You work closely with a team of specialists, including doctors, physiotherapists, and psychologists, to provide the best possible care to our patients.
• Professional development: The HC is a dynamic learning environment where you get ample opportunity to further develop yourself and orient yourself toward a potential ICU training. You are encouraged to participate in research and continuing education.
• Academic involvement: You contribute to the academic care environment by participating in research, implementing evidence-based practices, and sharing your knowledge and experience with colleagues and students.

• A challenging and varied position: No two days are the same in High Care, which continuously challenges and stimulates you to get the best out of yourself.
• A close-knit and supportive team: Collaboration is central to us. We help and motivate each other to provide the highest quality of care.
• Do you not possess a diploma as a pediatric nurse or an adult ICU nurse? Then we would like to look at the possibilities together with you. In consultation, we will establish an individual development track, in which it is determined which additional training, education, and guidance is needed to prepare you well for a position within the department.
• Opportunities for growth and development: We invest in your professional development with various training and career advancement opportunities, including the CZO High Care training. After this training, it is only a small step to the position of Pediatric Intensive Care nurse.
• A working environment where you truly make a difference: You can make the difference in the lives of seriously ill children and their families.
• Working in an academic hospital: You work in an environment where continuous innovation and improvement of care are central.

The Pediatric Intensive Care consists of 8 beds (6 ICU and 2 HC beds) at location C3C, with an expansion possibility of two beds at C3B. Children vary in age from 0 to 18 years. The composition may change if the situation requires it. The team consists of approximately 50 employees (28 FTE). These are HC nurses, PICU nurses, nursing assistants, secretaries, two pedagogical staff members, professionals in training, 2 team leaders, and a care manager.

The team is enthusiastic and there is a good working atmosphere. The children are referred from all specialties within Radboudumc and the peripheral hospitals from the region. Because of this, there is a large variety of clinical pictures. In short: a very dynamic and inspiring workplace to work in.

At the Radboudumc Center for Acute and Intensive Care, you work on the front line of care. In a dynamic, academic environment, you provide top-clinical acute and intensive care to acutely ill and unstable patients. Together with experienced teams, you make the difference in situations where rapid decision-making and high-tech treatments are life-saving. Within the center, emergency care, intensive care, and invasive interventions are optimally coordinated. Care, training, education, and research come together here, ensuring that innovation directly contributes to better protocols and treatment methods. In close cooperation with partners within the academic network, the center fulfills a facilitating role, with the aim of providing the best possible care at the moment it truly matters.

• You are a qualified nurse and preferably have experience in the care of seriously ill children.
• You are stress-resistant, possess communicative skills, and can collaborate well in a multidisciplinary team.
• You have a proactive and eager-to-learn attitude and are willing to continuously develop yourself.
• Affinity with academic care and the willingness to contribute to research and innovation.

Together we make the difference!

• A Certificate of Conduct (VOG) is required for this position.