Registered Nurse (RN) - NICU
Tenet Healthcare · Glendale, Arizona, United States · onsite
The NICU Registered Nurse provides professional, compassionate nursing care to neonates within our Level III NICU. This role coordinates care planning with the multidisciplinary team and renders individualized, age-specific, and direct bedside nursing care based on the nursing process and patient needs. The RN systematically evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice to support optimal patient outcomes.
- Provide safe, evidence-based care to critically ill infants.
- Act as a clinical leader by assessing, planning, delegating, and using independent judgment to direct other healthcare team members.
- Collaborate with physicians, respiratory therapists, and other disciplines to ensure coordinated patient care.
- Participate in hourly rounding and follow safety guidelines and best practices.
- Supervise and mentor other members of the healthcare team.
- Minimum Requirements - Experience: At least 1 year of current hospital-based acute care RN experience in a NICU.
- Education: Nursing degree from an accredited nursing school.
- Certifications: - Current RN license in the State of Arizona (or compact license),
- CPR
- NRP (required upon orientation completion)
- ACLS as applicable by facility/department
- Preferred Requirements
- Experience: At least 1 year of Level III NICU experience, including care of infants requiring conventional ventilators, HFOV, central lines, and therapeutic hypothermia.
- Education: BSN
- Certifications: Specialty certification a plus.
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