Intensive Care nurse

As an Intensive Care nurse, you will work at Radboudumc in an academic Intensive Care unit within a level-1 trauma center and be part of the Acute and Intensive Care Center. You provide highly complex care to patients from across the entire region with a threat to one or more vital functions. You monitor, support, or take over these functions in close collaboration with the intensivist. You continuously switch between planned care and acute situations and perform specialized nursing technical procedures.

You take care of assigned patients and, in addition to bedside care, have a coordinating role towards other disciplines and relatives. This requires a broad clinical perspective, flexibility, and the ability to switch gears quickly. Due to the complexity of the care and the collaboration with highly experienced physicians, you will continuously deepen your knowledge.

You will work in one of our ICU units (general or thorax/heart), matching your experience and interest. Development and personal initiative are central. Additionally, you are involved in scientific research and contribute to innovative, sustainable ICU care.

Being flexibly deployable within other specialties or departments is a matter of course for you. Because you work within the Acute and Intensive Care Center, it may occur that you are deployed to other departments within this center, such as the ER, Medium Care, or Acute Admission Department (AOA).

Rotating between different departments to keep your knowledge up to date or based on capacity is a requirement. We are a department that is eager to help you further your career as an ICU nurse. We have various combined career paths for this.

As an ICU Nurse, you work in a department with approximately 250 nurses. Within the ICU, we have 3 large teams led by 2 care managers and 8 team leaders. Additionally, within the department, we have a Medium Care unit, a Pediatric ICU, and a Radboudumc Expertise Center for Weaning from Ventilation, which specializes in weaning patients from mechanical ventilation. Furthermore, we have a specialized team that handles all ICU transports in the region with our MICU (Mobile Intensive Care Unit). And a specialized ECMO team trained to temporarily take over the function of the patient's heart and/or lungs using an ECLS machine.

At our ICU, we work daily on improving care in a pleasant and collegial manner. The patient is central, whereby we involve the family in the treatment as an essential part of our care.

Regional ICU collaboration
The ICU at Radboudumc collaborates with the ICUs of various other hospitals in the region in the fields of patient care, education, and research within one ICU region. We do this in the interest of high-quality ICU care for patients. This also offers our employees the opportunity to get a look at how others work through a regional exchange.

At the Intensive Care, you work in the heart of acute, highly complex care. You treat seriously ill adults and children whose vital functions are threatened or have failed. You offer intensive monitoring and support in the ICUs, Medium Care, and High Care. In multidisciplinary teams, you combine high-tech care with teamwork, continuous development, and optimal attention to the most vulnerable patients.

• The appointment is immediately for an indefinite period.
• A Certificate of Conduct (VOG) is required for this position.