Registered Nurse - Intensive Care Unit

About This Role

This nursing role on the Intensive Care Unit involves providing critical knowledge, skills, and judgment to care for critically ill adult patients requiring complex assessment and therapies. The nurse will respond to rapidly changing patient conditions and utilize specialized equipment to monitor and assess patients.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate critical knowledge, skills, and judgment to care for patients requiring complex assessment and therapies, high intensity interventions, and high-level continuous nursing vigilance
• Utilize information and assessment data to anticipate and respond with confidence and adapt to rapidly changing patient conditions
• Identify and prioritize information to take immediate and decisive evidence-based, patient-focused action
• Monitor and adjust specialized equipment used on patients, and interpret and record electronic displays, such as intracranial pressures, central venous pressures, pulmonary artery pressures, and cardiac rhythms from cardiac monitors, respirators, ventilators, oxygen pumps, etc.
• Respond to life-saving situations based on nursing standards and protocol
• Observe, monitor, and assess patients' condition, recognize, identify, and interpret serious situations and call Physician or take preplanned emergency measures when Physician is not immediately available
• Assess patient's needs and develop/revise an individualized plan of care based on patient needs and responses
• Evaluate the patient's progress toward attaining expected outcomes
• Respect diversity by building respectful relationships with all team members and customers

Requirements

• Graduate of an approved school of nursing
• Meets all mandatory, developmental, and performance competency requirements for Orlando Health and unit/department
• Maintains current licensure as a registered nurse in the State of Florida or Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC)
• Maintains current BLS/Healthcare Provider certification
• 1+ year of RN experience

Nice to have:

• ACLS, NRP, PALS, TNCC are required for certain areas

Benefits

• Onsite state-of-the-art gym and wellness center
• The center offers a state-of-the-art fitness facility, a dedicated tranquility space, and a variety of wellness activities

Important Details

• Schedule: Variable full-time, three 12-hour shifts with rotating weekends
• Shift: Days (7am - 7pm)

About the Company

Orlando Health Dr. P. Phillips is recognized as a “Best Regional Hospital” by U.S. News & World Report and one of the “Best Places to Work in Healthcare” by Modern Healthcare. This 285-bed facility provides expertise and advanced technology in numerous areas of specialty, including diagnostic imaging, cardiovascular care, orthopedic care, surgical services and emergency medicine. In 2025, Dr. P. Phillips Hospital opened the onsite Team Member Wellness Center to support employee health and well-being. Forbes has named Orlando Health as one of America's Best-In-State Employers for 2025.