IC Neonatal Nurse

As a nurse in the Neonatology department of the Radboudumc Amalia Children's Hospital, you will work with approximately 125 colleagues divided across 2 units: Medium/High Care ICU and NICU. Together with the Obstetrics department, we form the new Perinatology domain within the Amalia Children's Hospital.

Within our department, we find it important that we work together in a pleasant way towards the continuous improvement of care for neonates and premature infants, and that we offer everyone many opportunities to continuously develop themselves. Because many disciplines that place high demands on knowledge and skills come together at our location, and we also work daily with technical equipment, we are helpful to one another, we find giving and receiving honest feedback important, and sharing knowledge and experience is central to us. The emotions of hope, fear, dread, sadness, joy, and happiness play a large role in our department. That does not always make the work easy. The atmosphere is very open, we work together in a pleasant way, and we support each other where necessary. This is also evident from the fact that we successfully work with 'self-scheduling'.

As a department, we work closely with, among others, maternity care, youth health care (JGZ), and general practitioners to raise the level of maternity care for the city of Nijmegen and the surrounding area. Through constant evaluation of outcomes and client experiences, we want to make this qualitatively better, more effective, and more efficient. Sharing knowledge with each other and thus continuously improving care for neonates and premature infants, also outside of Radboudumc, is one of our ambitions. Looking beyond boundaries and being open to new ideas is part of the culture we strive for.

You are a specialized ICN nurse. You possess the social and communicative skills to collaborate well in a treatment team, where not infrequently different visions on the treatment from various specialties must be brought into alignment. In addition, you naturally contribute actively to the treatment plan.

You can also listen well to parents and empathize with their situation. You give them a sincere sense of involvement. You also stand firm in your shoes when parents have wishes regarding their child's care that, in your eyes, do not benefit the treatment or do not fit within the department's agreements.

Additionally, you find it important that you function optimally as a person and as a professional, and you have the ambition to continue learning. You then seize the opportunities offered to you to further develop yourself with both hands; you share your knowledge and experience with colleagues and participate in activities organized within the department in the field of knowledge sharing. Where possible, you take the lead in this. Furthermore, you are flexible in your work, can handle giving and receiving feedback well, are positive by nature, and are open to change and innovation; you want to make a substantial contribution every day to ever better person-centered care for neonates and premature infants.

The Amalia Children's Hospital is the academic children's hospital of Radboudumc, where we provide care to more than 26,000 children and (expectant) mothers annually. We believe that every child deserves to grow up as healthy as possible. And that begins during pregnancy. With us, you work in a warm, safe, child- and family-oriented environment in which we actively involve children and their parents in the care process. We connect various specialties and expertise centers to provide high-quality and integrally organized care - from birth care and hereditary disorders to complex pediatric trauma and burn care. As a university medical center, we combine care with education and research. You will work together with dedicated colleagues and contribute to the development of innovative, sustainable, and person-centered healthcare. Within our teams, there is room for professional growth, learning, and development. Working at the Amalia Children's Hospital means you truly make a difference in the lives of children, pregnant women, and their families. Where care and attention meet, our central focus is ensuring that being young and growing up as healthy as possible is indeed possible, even when life presents medical challenges.