Acute Admission Department Nurse

Are you a nurse with a passion for nursing care and do you want to contribute to the development of Emergency Care within Radboudumc? Then we are looking for you for our Acute Admission Department (AOA).

You provide complex care to patients who are admitted urgently and care for them during the first 48 hours of their admission. Should a patient need to stay longer, they will be further treated on a regular nursing ward.

What do we offer you?
At the AOA, you get the unique opportunity to expand your professional knowledge. By working with a wide category of patients, you will not quickly run out of things to learn on this department. Additionally, there are plenty of opportunities to perform challenging and special nursing technical procedures.

With us, you get the chance to actively work towards achieving the EPA-LZ-FO-6. We offer you support in achieving EPAs within the various specialties that we offer at the AOA. This enables you to develop and expand your expertise at a high level.

There are also many opportunities to grow within the department. Think of deepening your knowledge in specific aspects of care, taking on more responsibility, or specializing in certain procedures. You have the chance to continue expanding your professional knowledge and experience and to continue enriching your role at the AOA, with plenty of room for personal and professional success.

What else can you expect?
At the AOA, you will gain intensive experience with complex academic patients, often with diverse medical backgrounds and co-morbidity. You work closely with doctors and nurses from various specialties and other disciplines, which enables you to further develop your multidisciplinary collaboration. This experience offers you a solid foundation to be successful and broadly employable as a nurse now and in the future.

What does the course of the day look like at the AOA?
During the day, the AOA is generally busy, with many patients staying there. We strive to transfer these patients between 11:00 AM and 2:00 PM to a suitable department within the hospital, to an external institution, or to discharge them with care and guide them home. There are various peak moments in the patient flow from the Emergency Department (ED) and the outpatient clinics. Our patients typically stay at the AOA for at least one night.

This varying workload sometimes makes it a matter of "sprinting or standing still," which creates a dynamic working environment. At the same time, it offers room for training, peer review, and knowledge transfer. Within our team, clinical lessons take place regularly, provided by nurses, nurse practitioners, and doctors.

Sharing knowledge is encouraged, and when there are capacity issues, there is the possibility to flexibly step in at other departments. This contributes to a broad learning environment and helps you to further build upon your versatility as a healthcare professional.

Are you a driven nurse who wants to further develop in (emergency) care? Do you want to contribute to the care of tomorrow and make a difference together with us? Then we would love to meet you!

The Acute Admission Department (AOA) is part of the Radboudumc Center for Acute and Intensive Care. Acute patients from all specialties, both surgical and medical, who are admitted unplanned, initially stay at the AOA. Therefore, you will be working with a complex patient group.

The maximum length of stay at the AOA is 48 hours. During the admission to the AOA, the diagnosis is made, treatment is started, or the patient stays for observation. Patients go home from the AOA, are transferred to a ward where further treatment will take place, or go to a follow-up institution. The AOA has a capacity of 24 beds.

As a nurse at the AOA, you work together with a team of over 35 nurses with various specialist backgrounds, but with one common goal: providing high-quality unplanned care. You will work in a dynamic and sometimes unpredictable environment, in which you are challenged daily to get the best out of yourself. You will get plenty of room for personal responsibility, whereby you actively contribute to the development of the team and the provision of care.

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 with each other. Care, training, education, and research come together here, whereby 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 have at least an mbo-v diploma and are a BIG-registered nurse. You are flexible, enthusiastic, eager to learn, and stress-resistant. You possess self-knowledge and have a positive attitude, even under changing circumstances. In addition to working independently, you can also function well in a team.

You enjoy working together with the nursing team to create a pleasant working environment for everyone, where there is room to learn. And where you together deliver good quality of care to acute patients and have an eye for the family around them. You can switch gears quickly and assess in a short time what the right nursing care is for patients with different medical backgrounds. You find it a challenge to see different pathologies and to do so in an acute environment. In this position, you are experienced in multiple areas and do not shy away from a challenge.

• The first interviews will take place on December 3 or 4, 2026. It would be great if you could take this into account.
• Is applying still a step too far, but are you curious about what it means to work as a nurse at the AOA in Radboudumc? Feel welcome to call the AOA team leadership for an orientation. For this, you can contact Manouk Bussink (06 29 65 39 96) or Julia Hauet (06 26 46 27 16) during office hours.
• A Certificate of Conduct (VOG) is required for this position.

We are recruiting for this vacancy ourselves. We do not appreciate acquisition; however, sharing within your network is welcome.