PICU Qualified Registered Nurse – Gauteng Full Time

Introduction:

Join a leading private hospital in Gauteng as a PICU Qualified Registered Nurse. We are seeking a highly skilled, compassionate, and dedicated nursing professional with Paediatric Intensive Care Unit experience, strong clinical expertise, and a passion for delivering exceptional care to critically ill infants, children, and adolescents.

Key Performance Areas:

• Deliver comprehensive, evidence-based nursing care to critically ill infants, children, and adolescents within the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit.
• Perform comprehensive and ongoing patient assessments, promptly identifying and responding to changes in the patient’s clinical condition.
• Provide specialised nursing care to ventilated, haemodynamically unstable, and high-acuity paediatric patients requiring intensive monitoring and intervention.
• Monitor and manage paediatric patients receiving advanced respiratory support, invasive monitoring, infusion therapies, and other critical care interventions.
• Safely administer prescribed medications, intravenous therapies, blood products, inotropes, sedatives, analgesics, and other treatments in accordance with paediatric protocols and hospital policies.
• Operate and monitor specialised PICU equipment, including mechanical ventilators, infusion pumps, invasive monitoring devices, and other critical care technology.
• Monitor vital signs, ECG rhythms, blood results, arterial blood gases, and other diagnostic information to support timely clinical decision-making.
• Assist with emergency procedures, resuscitations, intubations, central line insertions, and other critical care interventions within the PICU.
• Collaborate closely with paediatricians, intensivists, physicians, allied healthcare professionals, and the multidisciplinary team to ensure optimal patient outcomes.
• Maintain accurate, timely, and comprehensive patient documentation in accordance with legal, ethical, and professional standards.
• Ensure strict compliance with infection prevention and control measures, patient safety standards, and quality assurance protocols.
• Provide compassionate emotional support, guidance, and education to parents and families during challenging and stressful periods.
• Participate in discharge planning and facilitate the safe transfer of patients to high care units, paediatric wards, or other appropriate healthcare facilities.
• Participate in clinical audits, quality improvement initiatives, and the implementation of evidence-based practices within the PICU.
• Mentor, supervise, and support junior nursing staff, students, and newly appointed team members.
• Maintain professional competency through continuous professional development and adherence to SANC standards and regulations.
• Demonstrate the ability to remain calm, compassionate, and clinically effective in a high-pressure, fast-paced paediatric critical care environment.

Education:

• Diploma/Degree in Nursing.
• Postgraduate Diploma/Qualification in Child Critical Care Nursing Science.
• PICU experience and/or relevant paediatric critical care training is essential.
• Registered with the South African Nursing Council (SANC) as a Registered/General Nurse.

Experience & Skills:

• Minimum of 2–3 years’ experience within an ICU, PICU, or critical care environment.
• Previous experience caring for critically ill paediatric patients is essential.
• Sound knowledge of paediatric critical care nursing principles and best practices.
• Ability to function effectively in a fast-paced, high-pressure PICU environment.
• Strong clinical assessment and critical thinking skills.
• Excellent communication, teamwork, and interpersonal skills.
• BLS certification advantageous.
• PALS/APLS and ACLS certification advantageous.

Ready to Apply?

If you meet the requirements, don’t miss out on this chance to advance your career. Apply online or send your CV to medical.jobs@shiftpursuit.co.za

Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and should you not hear from us within 2 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.

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