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:
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
Collaboration and advocacy
Caring and Whole Child Health
Learning and teaching
Systems thinking
Qualifications
Required before start date:
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.
What We Offer
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.
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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
Nemours Children's Health is committed to improving the health of children. As a non-profit children’s health organization, we consider the health of every child to be a sacred trust.
Through family-centered care in our children’s hospitals and clinics in Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Florida, as well as world-changing research, education and advocacy, Nemours fulfills the promise of a healthier tomorrow for all children — even those who may never enter our doors.
Nemours began more than 80 years ago with the vision of Alfred I. duPont to improve the lives of children and to do whatever it takes to prevent and treat even the most disabling childhood conditions.
Today, through our children’s hospitals and health system, we directly care for 250,000 children annually in Delaware Valley and Florida, including families who travel from across the country and world to see our specialists — treating every child as we would our own.
We also reach beyond the walls of our hospitals and clinics to be a voice for children on a national and international level, and to lead the way in prevention, intervention, education, and research.
Nemours is growing to better serve the children and families in our care. We have 1.1 million square feet of space currently devoted to providing children’s healthcare or under construction, all designed with significant input and advice from our patients and families.
