Registered Nurse- NICU- Nights

Utilizes the nursing process to coordinate the interdisciplinary approach to patient care. He/she provides safe, therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic way and integrates knowledge, skills and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families through the continuum of care. The RN collaborates with others to integrate assessment and input of the patient, family and the interdisciplinary team and ensures improvements in practice settings by assuming responsibility for self-development in life-long learning. Provides direction and guidance to others regarding practice, serves as a resource, preceptor, and mentor. Demonstrates leadership skills in decision-making and problem solving. The RN integrates and communicates knowledge and sensitivity to patient's psychosocial, spiritual, cultural and age specific needs and practices within the boundaries of the Kansas Nurse Practice Act, specialty standards and organizational/departmental policies and procedures. The NICU/Mother Baby Nurse provides compassionate, evidence based nursing care to newborns and their families in both the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and Mother Baby Unit. This role supports healthy term newborns, mother–baby couplets, and infants requiring specialized care, ensuring safe, high quality outcomes in a fast paced, family centered environment. The nurse collaborates closely with an interdisciplinary team to create a supportive, educational, and healing experience during one of the most meaningful moments in a family’s life.