Job Advertisement: Nurse for the Pulmonary Care Unit

The pulmonary care unit provides highly specialized care for individuals requiring inpatient treatment for pulmonary diseases.

Patients with lung cancer, pleural diseases, lung transplants, lung infections, and chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases are cared for in both acute and elective phases. The unit is part of the Southeast Healthcare Region's competence center for cancer treatment and pulmonary medicine.

Our Offer

The Cancer and Pulmonary Care Unit (CoL) is a clinic focused on inpatient care! The clinic is led by a manager with extensive expertise in both nursing and leadership. The two unit managers are specialist nurses in medical care and alternate between leadership and clinical work. Together, we promote active learning in everyday life!

There are excellent opportunities for professional development and deepening knowledge in areas such as pulmonary care, emergency care, medical care, and/or cancer care. We actively work with continuing education during work hours to enhance your knowledge and skills through both internal and external training. You are offered scheduled administrative time for your own development.

We offer individual scheduling based on the scheduling tool Tessa. Your recovery and health are important to us. We have daily time set aside for reflection in teams to summarize the day's experiences and reduce the risk of taking work home. The main focus of the reflection template is on communication, nursing, ethics, and work environment, promoting psychological safety in the unit.

Job Description

As a nurse, you will be part of a team with several professions such as nursing assistants, specialist nurses, physiotherapists, dietitians, social workers, doctors, and occupational therapists. You will be responsible for specific nursing care and leading the daily nursing work. We work based on the core competencies of nursing. Good collaboration in the team and active learning are important to us. All employees have specific areas of responsibility. The unit has nursing leaders who provide support and guidance in daily work for both new and experienced colleagues. The pulmonary unit has 15 beds, divided into three care teams.

The pulmonary unit conducts both elective and acute operations and cares for patients in diagnostic, treatment, and palliative phases. Your work will thus include many different practical tasks such as administering chemotherapy, respiratory treatment, NIV treatment, CPAP treatment, high-flow oxygen therapy, managing various thoracic drains, and central venous access. Nurses receive delegation for sampling through arterial puncture and analysis.

• Introduction is planned based on your previous experiences, 4-6 weeks
• You will be offered a mentor
• Training in pulmonary medicine, complex patients, chemotherapy handling, and educational concepts in cancer care
• Individual schedule planning in the digital scheduling tool Tessa.
• Internal training and dialogue regarding career development for you

About You

You are a licensed nurse or a licensed specialist nurse in medical care. At CoL, there are opportunities to develop as a new, experienced, or specialist nurse.

As you work in constant dialogue with patients, relatives, colleagues, and other services, it is a requirement that you have good knowledge of the Swedish language in both speech and writing.

You easily adapt to changing circumstances, can quickly change your perspective and approach, and see the opportunities in changes. You enjoy being part of a multidisciplinary team with a person-centered focus, where all professions learn from each other. You have a good empathetic ability to understand another person's perspective or situation without taking over their feelings.

Application and Employment

We work with ongoing selection, so please submit your application as soon as possible. Before employment in a patient-facing role within Region Östergötland, you will need to fill out a form (https://ledsys.lio.se/Document/Document?DocumentNumber=54500).

Warm welcome to submit your application! If you need help registering in the system, contact customer service Support and Service at 010-103 60 00 during office hours.

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