Registered Nurse - NICU

Job Description

Join TriHealth — Where Compassion Meets Advanced Neonatal Care

At TriHealth, every nurse is valued, supported, and empowered to deliver exceptional care. As a NICU Registered Nurse at Good Samaritan Hospital, you’ll play a critical role in the lives of our most fragile patients—newborns requiring specialized, high‑acuity, and family‑centered care. You’ll collaborate closely with neonatologists, respiratory therapists, lactation specialists, and an interdisciplinary team in a modern NICU environment built around safety, excellence, and meaningful human connection. The 9AB Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at TriHealth Good Samaritan Hospital is a specialized 60-bed unit dedicated to providing high-risk neonates with the level III NICU care they need. The unit is committed to a family-centered developmental care approach, ensuring that both the infants and their families receive the support they need during this critical time. The NICU provides highly technical care, including cardiac, respiratory, and hemodynamic monitoring, as well as ventilator support for neonates requiring specialized intervention. Staffing in the 9AB NICU is carefully structured to ensure optimal care for these vulnerable patients.

Orientation for new staff in the NICU follows a Competency-Based Orientation (CBO) model, including an online didactic component. The orientation period ranges from 8 to 12 weeks, depending on the nurse's previous experience.

NICU experience is preferred for new hires, but the unit is also open to new graduates who are eager to learn and grow. All nurses are required to complete the Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) and the S.T.A.B.L.E. program by the end of their first year of employment to ensure they are fully prepared to provide the highest standard of care.

Why You’ll Love This Role

• Serve in a high ‑ touch, high ‑ skill NICU environment caring for premature infants and medically complex newborns.
• Work in a collaborative team culture with neonatology experts and strong interdisciplinary partnerships.
• Opportunity to advance neonatal nursing skills through structured education, shared governance, and specialty certification support.
• Make a profound impact on infants and their families during some of the most vulnerable moments of their lives.
• Join a hospital known for compassionate care and clinical excellence in maternal ‑ infant services.
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Complete initial and ongoing assessments of infants and their families; document per NICU and TriHealth standards.
• Develop individualized plans of care based on clinical assessments, standards of practice, and patient/family needs.
• Provide holistic, developmentally appropriate NICU care while maintaining infant safety, dignity, and family involvement.
• Communicate effectively with physicians and interdisciplinary clinicians to coordinate safe, timely care.
• Deliver health teaching and emotional support to families navigating NICU care.
• Respond appropriately to emergent and rapidly changing neonatal conditions.
• Contribute to unit excellence through precepting, knowledge ‑ sharing, and collaboration with peers.
  
  

Qualifications

Must‑Have

• Associate’s Degree or Diploma in Nursing.
• New hires must obtain BSN within 5 years of hire.
• Active Registered Nurse (RN) license.
• BLS/CPR for Healthcare Providers.
• Strong foundation in nursing sciences across all developmental stages.
  
  

Preferred

• 1+ year full ‑ time or 2+ years part ‑ time acute care RN experience.
• Membership in a related professional nursing organization.
• Specialty certification (e.g., RNC ‑ NIC).
  
  

Schedule & Location

• FTE: Full ‑ Time - 36 Hours Weekly
• Shift: Days 7:00am-7:00pm
• Location: Good Samaritan Hospital (NICU)
• Work Setting: On ‑ site NICU environment
  
  

Benefits Snapshot

TriHealth offers a comprehensive benefits suite including medical, dental, vision, retirement contributions, paid time off, tuition assistance, and wellness resources.

Learn more: https://careers.trihealth.com/what-we-offer/benefits

Hourly Incentives & Bonus

$1hr Weekend Incentive

Acute Care Incentive Pay- Hourly Pay Based on Previous RN Experience

Job Overview

This position applies the nursing process in providing direct and indirect holistic care to patients and their families. The position also collaborates, in a collegial manner, with physicians and other health care team members in meeting the patient’s needs. This position may delegate certain aspects of care to those under their direct supervision, within the scope of nursing practice.

Job Requirements

Associate's Degree or Diploma in Nursing

New hires required to obtain BSN within 5 years of hire.

BLS/CPR (Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers)

Registered Nurse

Knowledge, judgment, and skills derived from the principles of biological, physical, behavioral, social, and nursing sciences to meet complex health care needs a various stages of the life cycle

Preferred Membership In Related Professional Organization

RNs with more than 1 year full-time or 2 years part-time acute care experience

Job Responsibilities

Preferred certification in specialty

Performs initial and ongoing assessment of patient and family. Completes initial assessment tool. Documents ongoing assessment per unit/TriHealth guidelines. Communicates assessment findings to other health care providers as appropriate. Includes health counseling and health teaching needs in assessment.

Plans care for patient and family based on assessment, standards of care, and optimal specific outcomes. Initiates and individualizes appropriate patient care guidelines/plan of care or clinical pathways. Updates current plan of care as needed based on patient/family input and healthcare needs. Develops both short- and long-term goals with patient/family and healthcare team including discharge planning. Communicates plan of care to others.

Provides a safe, therapeutic environment, maintains patient’s autonomy, dignity, and rights, and is sensitive to patient diversity. Seeks resources to help formulate ethical decisions. Balances priorities of the patient's needs and those of the unit/facility. Recognizes emergency situations and takes appropriate action. Completes patient assignment including documentation within scheduled timeframe. Bases interventions on clinical data and desired outcomes and documents accordingly. Trains/educates other staff and acts an expert resource in specialty area through abilities in existing and newer knowledge and skills. Effectively communicates and understands/executes physician orders.

Evaluates the plan of care for patient based on optimal specific patient outcomes. Documents the patient/family response to care including teaching. Collaborates with the patient/family and with other members of the health care team, including physicians, to revise plan of care as needed. Supervises the care that was delegated to other health care team members.

Performs technical skills according to policy and procedure and accepted standards within their area of practice. Safely administers medications/treatments and monitors their effects. Uses all equipment in a safe, appropriate manner.

Demonstrates organizations responsibilities: Identifies areas for self-improvement, functions in relief charge / resource role as requested, completes assignments within scheduled timeframes, cooperates with instructor to facilitate effective learning experiences for students, maintains current knowledge in area of practice, demonstrates knowledge of organizational and department changes.

Other Job-Related Information

The TriHealth Nursing Vision, Mission, and Philosophy speaks to professional development, collaboration, and our nursing culture. To achieve excellence in nursing care, TriHealth encourages: pursuit of improved knowledge through continuing education classes, formal education leading to advancement of degrees, and the attainment of specialty certification; nurse membership in local, regional, and national nursing organizations related to the appropriate nurse specialty; involvement in activities that better the health of our community; nursing research activities and use of evidence-based practice, and all nurses to foster, support and personally model collaborative relationships amongst nurses, physicians, and other caregivers for the betterment of patient care.

Working Conditions

Bending - Frequently

Climbing - Rarely

Concentrating - Consistently

Continuous Learning - Consistently

Hearing: Conversation - Consistently

Hearing: Other Sounds - Consistently

Interpersonal Communication - Consistently

Kneeling - Occasionally

Lifting <10 Lbs. - Consistently

Lifting 50+ Lbs. - Consistently

Lifting <50 Lbs. - Consistently

Pulling - Consistently

Pushing - Consistently

Reaching - Consistently

Sitting - Occasionally

Standing - Consistently

Stooping - Consistently

Talking - Consistently

Thinking/Reasoning - Consistently

Use of Hands - Consistently

Color Vision - Consistently

Visual Acuity: Far - Consistently

Visual Acuity: Near - Consistently

Walking - Consistently

TriHealth SERVE Standards and ALWAYS Behaviors

At TriHealth, We Believe There Is No Responsibility More Important Than To SERVE Our Patients, Our Communities, And Our Fellow Team Members. To Achieve Our Vision And Mission, ALL TriHealth Team Members Are Expected To Demonstrate And Live The Following

Serve: ALWAYS…

• Welcome everyone by making eye contact, greeting with a smile, and saying "hello"
• Acknowledge when patients/guests are lost and escort them to their destination or find someone who can assist
• Refrain from using cell phones for personal reasons in public spaces or patient care areas
  
  

Excel: ALWAYS…

• Recognize and take personal responsibility to address and recover from service breakdowns when a customer's expectations have not been met
• Offer patients and guests priority when waiting (lines, elevators)
• Work on improving quality, safety, and service
  
  

Respect: ALWAYS…

• Respect cultural and spiritual differences and honor individual preferences.
• Respect everyone’s opinion and contribution, regardless of title/role.
• Speak positively about my team members and other departments in front of patients and guests.
  
  

Value: ALWAYS…

• Value the time of others by striving to be on time, prepared and actively participating.
• Pick up trash, ensuring the physical environment is clean and safe.
• Be a good steward of our resources, using supplies and equipment efficiently and effectively, and will look for ways to avoid waste.
  
  

Engage: ALWAYS…

• Acknowledge wins and frequently thank team members and others for contributions.
• Show courtesy and compassion with customers, team members and the community
  
  

Job Keywords

NICU RN, Neonatal Nurse, Neonatal ICU Nurse, Level III NICU, High Acuity Infant Care, Newborn Critical Care, Good Samaritan Hospital NICU, TriHealth Nursing, Cincinnati NICU RN Jobs