Wilmington, DE
Apply online at www.nemours.org

At Nemours, we’re dedicated to achieving higher standards in children’s health. We’ve made a promise to do whatever it takes to prevent and treat even the most disabling childhood conditions. It’s a promise that extends beyond our nationally recognized clinical treatment to an entire integrated spectrum of research, advocacy, education and prevention.

Nemours cares for approximately a quarter of a million children annually. And we begin by caring for every child as if they were our own. For more than 70 years, this has been the Nemours Way.

As one of the nation’s premier pediatric health care systems, Nemours provides world-class clinical care in four states: Delaware, Florida, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, DE, offers intensive and acute inpatient and outpatient services covering more than 30 pediatric specialties. Ranked as one of the nation’s 25 Best Children’s Hospitals by Parents magazine in 2009, we care for thousands of children in the Delaware Valley, across the country, and around the world. Extending the world-class care of the duPont Hospital for Children, the Nemours Children’s Clinic provides convenient community-based physician services and collaborative partnerships with health and hospital systems across the Delaware Valley.

BENEFITS:

Nemours Associates enjoy our comprehensive Total Rewards package. Here are just a few examples of the Total Rewards available to our full-time employees:

Unique to Nemours: premium-free medical and prescription drug coverage to eligible dependents of full-time Associates

Excellent retirement plan options

Generous continuing education (CME) program

A broad range of specialty programs

Competitive salaries

Excellent health and dental benefit plans

Tuition reimbursement

We are looking for nurses who have a passion for cardiac intensive care to join our cardiac critical care team in Delaware as we increase from 10 to 14 beds. Shifts available are:

Full-time, day & night shifts, 12 hours

Part-time, day & night shifts, 12 hours

The Nemours Cardiac Center (NCC) provides comprehensive care for infants, children and adolescents with cardiac, thoracic and vascular disease. The Cardiac Center provides patient care, performs research, and educates and trains health care professionals consistent with the Mission, Vision and Values of the Nemours Foundation. We take care of simple to complex cardiac patients, including ECMO, VADs and transplant patients.

Responsibilities:

Assess and document initial and ongoing patient needs and problems.

Formulate nursing plan based on patient needs and problems, and indicate plan on the patient care plan.

Develop realistic and appropriate long- and short-term goals based on patient/family needs.

Implement patient plan of care.

Evaluate the patient’s and family’s response to care, and modify care plan accordingly.

Assist patient and family in discharge planning so that problems and care needs are anticipated and met.

Serve as an advocate for patient and family in working with other members of the health care team.

Requirements:

Graduate of accredited school of nursing.

BSN preferred.

Must be an experienced nurse.

Experience in pediatric/cardiac and/or critical care nursing preferred.

Current or be eligible for registration with Delaware State Board of Nursing.

Apply online at www.nemours.org

Nemours is an equal opportunity employer.

6/20/2011