Pediatric Intensive Care nurse in training

As a Pediatric Intensive Care Nurse in training at the Pediatric ICU (PICU) of Radboudumc, you will be trained in an academic setting with very high-quality Intensive Care expertise. This is in an environment where we stimulate and motivate each other to become better every day and to share knowledge with one another. You will typically provide acute care to an average of 2 critically ill children of various ages (0-18 years) with rare and complex conditions. Patients who, in many cases, cannot be treated anywhere else. In your care, you stay very close to the family and you support and guide them. As a result, you build an intense bond with both the child and the parents.

In your work, you will learn continuously from doctors who provide explanations about the treatment and from more experienced nurses. We operate as a close and equal team, and you will have all the space to also provide your own vision on the treatment and to coordinate care in your own way. In this way, we succeed together in always providing the very best family-centered care. Additionally, we invest heavily in educational moments. You can also choose to deepen your expertise in a specific area of interest and share this knowledge with your colleagues. We find it important that you have the ambition to continue learning and that you take initiative in this. In our department, we work continuously on medical innovation and develop treatment methods based on scientific research. We expect you to be open to this and to contribute actively. Technology plays a major role in this. Therefore, you must enjoy working with the latest and often complex equipment.

Will you, as a Pediatric Intensive Care Nurse in training, soon truly make a difference for critically ill children?

Furthermore, as an academic department, we handle all transport of unstable children in the region and the resuscitations of children throughout the entire 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 the work of a nurse here an interesting extra dimension.

In our department, nurses and doctors work together in a unique way. There is little distance between nurses and doctors. Due to the complexity of the care and the diversity of the patient group, we desperately need 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 in our Pediatric ICU.

The training to become a Pediatric Intensive Care Nurse lasts approximately 13-16 months, depending on the number of contract hours. During your training, you will provide highly complex nursing care to our patients under supervision. You will learn to take responsibility for the total monitoring, observation, and guidance of the patients assigned to you. Do you not possess a diploma in pediatric nursing or adult ICU nursing? Then we would like to look at the possibilities together with you. In consultation, we will draw up an individual development trajectory, in which it is determined which additional training, education, and guidance is needed to prepare you well for a position within the department.

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

As a Pediatric Intensive Care Nurse in training, you will work with approximately 30 Pediatric ICU Nurses and 9 High Care (HC) Nurses at the Pediatric ICU/HC of Radboudumc. Our department has 6 ICU beds and 2 HC beds. Furthermore, the department has 2 Pediatric ICU beds in the Adult ICU. For this, we exchange staff.

The training to become a Pediatric Intensive Care Nurse lasts approximately 13-16 months, depending on the number of contract hours. During your training, you will provide highly complex nursing care to our patients under supervision. You will learn to take responsibility for the total monitoring, observation, and guidance of the patients assigned to you.

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.