RN - PICU

Job Description

Registered Nurse – PICU

Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida

Full-Time Opportunities

At Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida in Orlando, you’ll do more than practice exceptional pediatric nursing — you’ll help build the healthiest generations of children and shape the healthiest workforce in health care. If you’re energized by challenge, driven by purpose, and excited to be part of a story of growth, you’ll thrive here.

Why choose us?

Nemours Children’s Is Investing Deeply — In Our People, In Our Programs, And In Our Community. Our Orlando Campus Is Undergoing a $300 Million Expansion, Designed To Meet The Growing Needs Of Kids Across Central Florida. This Project Includes

• Hospital Expansion (110,000 sq. ft.) – Doubling the ED square footage, expanding Imaging, and adding new inpatient beds (opens 2028)
• Surgery Center (75,000 sq. ft.) – Six ORs, expanded orthopedics, a Limb Lengthening Center, Florida’s only Gait and Motion Lab, and enhanced sports medicine (opens 2028)
• Administrative Building + 800-space Garage (75,000 sq. ft.) (opens 2027)
  
  

Serving more than 300,000 children, we’re growing capacity — and opportunity — at a pace that matches Florida’s expanding pediatric population. Orlando provides numerous opportunities, especially for children with higher acuity needs.

Inside Our PICU

Our Pediatric Intensive Care Unit provides advanced, family-centered care for up to 28 critically ill infants, children, and adolescents up to age 20. You’ll join a collaborative, high-acuity critical care team that includes experienced nurses, patient care technicians, critical care ARNPs, and board-certified critical care physicians working side by side.

We are part of a rapidly growing critical care program, expanded by more than 50% in the past five years, with advanced capabilities including CRRT, and a nurse-led PICC team. Our unit delivers comprehensive medical and surgical management across all organ systems, including respiratory, cardiac, neurologic, hematology/oncology, gastrointestinal, and metabolic care.

To support your continued growth, our PICU offers robust, year-round education, ensuring ongoing competency, confidence, and professional development for every team member.

A PICU Nursing Career That Lets You Flourish

Our culture is built for nurses who want to grow programs, teach, lead, and step forward with perseverance. Here, nurses are empowered, trusted, and supported in delivering Whole Child Health — addressing the physical, emotional, social, and developmental needs of every child and family.

You’ll work in a hospital created “by families, for families,” where innovation, teamwork, and evidence-based practice drive everything we do.

What You’ll Do

As a PICU RN, you’ll implement our family-centered patient care model with advanced critical-thinking, compassion, and autonomy.

Clinical excellence

• Use evidence-based guidelines to make informed clinical decisions.
• Assess, diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate patient-centered care.
• Interpret complex patient data and respond quickly in dynamic situations.
  
  

Collaboration and advocacy

• Partner across disciplines to achieve the best outcomes.
• Advocate for your patients and families while upholding the ANA Code of Ethics.
• Engage in governance councils, committees, and improvement initiatives.
  
  

Caring And Whole Child Health

• Create a therapeutic environment built on compassion and trust.
• Support wellness, reduce suffering, and promote healing for children and families.
• Respect diversity across culture, identity, values, and beliefs.
  
  

Learning and teaching

• Participate in research, inquiry, and continuous improvement.
• Teach and mentor peers, students, and families.
• Support readiness, education, and lifelong learning for patients and staff.
  
  

Systems thinking

• Use resources wisely to ensure safe, high-quality, cost-effective care.
• Contribute to policies, standards, and practice improvements.
  
  

Qualifications

• ASN required
• Active Florida or multistate RN license (required)
• National certification in clinical specialty (preferred)
• Minimum six months RN experience (required)
  
  

Required Before Start Date

• American Heart Association BLS (valid 90+ days post start date)
• American Heart Association PALS
  
  

More Ways We Invest in You

On top of our full benefits package, these added incentives make now the perfect time to bring your talent to Nemours Children’s.

• Tuition Reimbursement up to $5,250/year
• Relocation Assistance
• $3,000 Employee Referral Bonus
• A culture committed to investing in our talent and helping every associate thrive
  
  

What We Offer

• Medical, Dental, and Vision – Four levels of medical coverage are available, including fertility care and prescription drugs for associates and their families.
• Paid Time Off (PTO) – PTO will accrue according to your role and length of service. There are six paid holidays annually, and one day of paid volunteer time off.
• Paid Parental Leave – New parents receive six weeks of paid leave at 100% of pay.
• Tuition Reimbursement – Reimbursement is available on approved courses to a maximum of $5,250.
• Retirement Savings Plan – There is a 403(b) plan with immediate participation and matching contributions.
• Basic Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance – Basic Life Insurance is paid equal to one time your annual salary, up to a maximum of $500,000.
• Short- and Long-Term Disability – All associates are automatically covered by our short-term disability coverage with income protection (at 60% of your salary) for disabilities caused by illness, accident, or injury that is not work related.
  
  

If you are a PICU nurse who is energized, curious, and ready to grow with a forward-moving organization, Nemours Children’s invites you to join us — and help shape what pediatric care can become.

About Us

Nemours Children’s Health is an internationally recognized children’s health system. With more than 1.7 million patient encounters annually, we provide medical care in five states through two freestanding state-of-the-art children’s hospitals — Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida. Our pediatric network includes 80 primary-urgent-and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospitalists serving 19 affiliated hospitals. We generate annual revenues of more than $1.7 billion derived from patient services, contributions from the Alfred I. duPont Trust, as well as other income.

As one of the nation's premier pediatric health systems, we’re on a journey to discover better ways of approaching children’s health. Putting as much focus on prevention as cures and working hand in hand with the community to make every child’s world a place to thrive. It’s a journey that extends beyond our nationally recognized clinical treatment to an entire integrated spectrum of research, advocacy, education, and prevention, leading to the healthiest generations of children ever.

Inclusion and belonging guide our growth and strategy. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about, and committed to, leading efforts to provide culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and helping build an inclusive and supportive environment. All of our associates are expected to ensure that these philosophies are embedded in their day-to-day work with colleagues, patients and families.

To learn more about Nemours Children’s and how we go well beyond medicine, visit us at www.nemours.org .