PICU Qualified Registered Nurse - Gauteng

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.

• 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.

If you meet the requirements, don’t miss out on this chance to advance your career. Apply online or send your CV to ***email_hidden***

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