Pediatric Intensive Care Nurse

As a Pediatric Intensive Care Nurse on the Pediatric Intensive Care unit, you usually provide acute care to an average of 2 critically ill children of various ages (0-18 years) with rare and complex conditions. In many cases, these are patients who cannot be treated anywhere else. In your care, you stand very close to the family, supporting and guiding them. As a result, you build an intense bond with both the child and the parents.

Multiple specialties and disciplines are often involved in the treatment. You play an important coordinating role in this. While the physician holds ultimate responsibility, you have all the space to also provide your vision on the treatment and to coordinate the care in your own way. In doing so, we operate as a close and equal team and therefore succeed together in always providing the very best family-centered care. Additionally, we invest heavily in your training and development. For example, you have a personal training budget that you can spend yourself on courses or, for instance, on attending seminars and congresses.

It is also possible to deepen your expertise in a specific area of interest and share your knowledge about it with colleagues. And because, due to our specialist knowledge, our department is regularly requested to provide training elsewhere in the hospital, you have the opportunity to transfer your knowledge to others outside the department as well. It is important, however, that you have the ambition to continue learning and to take initiative in this. On our department, we work continuously on medical innovation and on the further improvement of treatment methods based on scientific research. You are expected to want to contribute actively to this. Technology plays a major role in this. Therefore, you must enjoy working with the latest and often complex equipment.

To develop yourself, share knowledge and experience, and to assist in case of capacity problems, it is not a problem for you to step in on another department or within another specialty.

On the Pediatric Intensive Care department, you work together with approximately 30 Pediatric ICU nurses and 9 High Care nurses. Our department has 6 ICU beds and 2 HC beds. Furthermore, the department has 2 Pediatric ICU beds in the Adult ICU.

As an academic department, we handle all transport of unstable children in the region and the resuscitations of children throughout Radboudumc. For example, we have a consulting function for the entire Amalia Children's Hospital for care questions regarding sick children staying there. This gives working as a nurse with us an interesting extra dimension.

On our department, nurses and physicians work together in a unique way. There is little distance between nurses and physicians. Due to the complexity of the care and the diversity of the patient group, we have a great need for each other's knowledge and experience. Together, we strive every day for the very best family-centered care. This creates a very pleasant and informal atmosphere on our department.

You are BIG-registered and a qualified pediatric nurse with completed ICU training. You possess a broad clinical perspective, you are flexible, proactive, and you can switch gears quickly. Additionally, you enjoy working with others, also outside your own specialty/department. Furthermore, you can work excellently independently and are well able to maintain an overview of the treatment and fulfill the coordinating role in the care. You can empathize well with the patient and the family, but you also stand firm in your shoes and know how to set your own boundaries.

Moreover, you are ambitious, curious, eager to learn, and you find it interesting to deepen your knowledge in new facets of the medical/nursing field every day. In doing so, you are open to what physicians and fellow nurses teach you, but you also find it important to share your knowledge with others; both within and outside the department. Furthermore, you find it interesting to be involved in innovation and scientific research and you want to make a concrete contribution to this. And you enjoy working with the latest and often complex equipment.

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.

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