About This Role
Providing safe, high-quality nursing care to critically ill pediatric patients in the PICU is the core of this role. The Staff Nurse will monitor patients, administer treatments, support emergency procedures, maintain documentation, and provide compassionate support to children and their families.
Responsibilities
- Provide direct nursing care to critically ill infants, children, and adolescents
- Perform continuous assessment and monitoring of patients, including vital signs, neurological status, fluid balance, pain, and clinical changes
- Monitor patients requiring oxygen therapy, ventilatory support, and other critical-care interventions within the nurse's authorized scope of practice
- Administer medications, IV fluids, blood/blood products, and prescribed treatments according to hospital protocols
- Assist physicians during emergency procedures and other critical-care interventions
- Recognize signs of clinical deterioration and promptly escalate to the treating physician/PICU team
- Respond effectively during pediatric emergencies and resuscitation
- Maintain IV lines, central lines, urinary catheters, feeding tubes, and other devices according to applicable protocols and assigned competency
- Follow strict infection prevention, hand hygiene, isolation, and biomedical waste-management practices
- Maintain accurate nursing notes, medication records, intake/output charts, and other required clinical documentation
- Ensure safe and effective shift handover, including the patient's current condition, treatment plan, medication, and pending investigations/interventions
- Follow medication-safety practices, particularly for weight-based pediatric medications
- Provide age-appropriate comfort, pain management, and emotional support to pediatric patients
- Educate and communicate with parents/caregivers regarding nursing care and instructions within the nurse's scope
- Maintain patient safety, confidentiality, dignity, and privacy
- Participate in nursing audits, quality-improvement activities, training, and competency assessments
- Follow hospital policies, nursing protocols, and patient-safety standards
Requirements
- Hands-on PICU / Pediatric Critical Care experience
- Pediatric patient assessment and monitoring
- Pediatric medication administration and dosage-safety awareness
- Critical-care documentation
- Effective communication
- B.Sc. Nursing / GNM with valid TN Nursing Council registration
- 2+ years of nursing experience, preferably with hands-on PICU/Pediatric Critical Care experience
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