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Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida | Orlando
Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida is seeking a full-time Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU) Registered Nurse to join our Comprehensive Cardiac Care Unit. This role is ideal for experienced pediatric nurses seeking clinical complexity, strong team support, and opportunities for professional growth within a stable, mission-driven organization.
Why CICU Nurses Choose Nemours Children’s
Why choose us?
Nemours Children’s Health is a nationally recognized nonprofit pediatric health system with a long, stable financial history and the backing of the Nemours Foundation. We are investing in our talent, expanding programs, and growing our Orlando campus to support children with complex medical needs.
Our Orlando campus expansion is enhancing surgical capacity, specialty services, and advanced pediatric programs to meet the needs of Central Florida’s rapidly growing population. This growth creates new opportunities for nurses to help shape programs, advance best practices, and deliver world-class pediatric cardiac care.
Our culture encourages perseverance, teaching, collaboration, shared governance, and professional development.
Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida
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CICU Clinical Practice and Support
Recognition and Team
Recognition and Team Strengths
In the CICU, we embrace a Just Culture model that promotes accountability, transparency, and continuous learning. Over the past year, we have maintained zero CLABSI, zero CAUTI, and zero SSI, reflecting exceptional quality and patient safety outcomes. This success is a direct result of strong collaboration across inpatient and outpatient cardiology teams, our cardiac surgery partners, and our multidisciplinary CICU nursing care team.
Dedicated Cardiac Respiratory Therapists
Our unit has dedicated cardiac respiratory therapists who are specifically trained in managing the complex needs of our cardiac population, including post-operative and high-acuity patients.
Education and Simulation Resources
We provide multiple cardiac-specific didactic courses each year, including Post-Op Emergencies, Cardiac 101, Cardiac 102, and Cardiac Neonatal. The team also participates in mock codes and high-fidelity simulation training, allowing staff to practice rare but high-risk scenarios in a controlled, team-based learning environment.
Innovative learning methods, including team-based simulation exercises and scenario-based “escape room” training to strengthen critical thinking, teamwork, and rapid response in high-risk situations.
Patient Ratios and Assignment Structure
Patient assignments are determined based on patient acuity and nurse competency tier:
Assignments are matched to both acuity and the nurse’s competency tier to ensure safe and appropriate care.
Supportive Roles in the CICU
The cardiac service line provides robust support through:
Responsibilities
Qualifications
Required Certifications (prior to start date)
What We Offer
Nemours Children's Health is an internationally recognized pediatric health system serving more than 1.7 million patient encounters each year. We deliver care across six states through two freestanding children’s hospitals — Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida — along with a network of more than 80 primary, urgent, and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospital partnerships.
Backed by the Nemours Foundation and Alfred I. duPont Trust, our $1.7B nonprofit system is dedicated to improving children's health through clinical care, research, education, advocacy, and prevention. Our Whole Child Health approach focuses equally on prevention and treatment, partnering with communities to help every child thrive.
Inclusion and belonging guide our strategy and growth. We are committed to culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and fostering an environment where every associate, patient, and family feels supported and valued.
Learn more at Nemours.org.