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Are you excited about highly specialized emergency care?

Do you have previous experience in emergency care? Do you thrive in fast-paced environments? Are you driven to make a difference for patients in emergency care with higher care needs? If you answered YES to these questions, you will enjoy working at AVA Solna.

Here, you will work with fast flows and develop a broad competence in highly specialized emergency care.

You are offered

• A complex and stimulating workplace with friendly and helpful colleagues.
• Interprofessional team-based work
• Individually tailored introduction and mentorship
• Opportunities for professional development through internal training, external courses, and further education in emergency care
• The chance to initiate and drive development projects to promote nursing in the organization
• Several different career paths; for example, AVA has a close collaboration with the neighboring department IMA with the possibility of rotation positions
• Regular reflection and collegial support
• Present and engaged managers

Of course, you will also benefit from the general benefits offered by Karolinska University Hospital.

About the position

The Acute Care Department (AVA) is undergoing a transformation where we have received a clearer mandate within highly specialized emergency care. Here, we provide care for patients with acute deterioration of vital functions or unclear conditions requiring investigation, stabilization, increased supervision, monitoring, and treatment. This may involve starting Non-Invasive Ventilation (NIV), High-Flow, taking blood gases, telemetry monitoring, NEWS 2 with closer intervals. The patient's condition should be potentially reversible or treatable, and the average length of stay is about 1.5 days. We can also care for patients with tracheostomy and EDA. Common admission causes can include arrhythmia, PE, intoxication, COPD, sepsis, neutropenic fever, electrolyte disturbances, smoke injuries, among others.

We work in two teams, with each team consisting of a nurse and a nursing assistant responsible for four patients.

We work in three shifts according to a desired schedule with day shifts from 07:00 to 15:30, evening shifts from 13:00 to 21:00, and night shifts from 20:30 to 07:15.

At AVA, we have a lead nurse who directs and allocates work during the day and evening, as well as from 08:30 to 17:00 on weekends.

The position contributes to our 24/7 operation by working two weekend shifts per month.

We are looking for someone who

• Has knowledge of the mission of emergency care.
• Is confident in their professional role.
• Is positively driven with a genuine interest in providing patient- and person-centered care. It is important for us that you see the patient and their relatives as an obvious participant in the team.
• You also have good collaboration skills, are unpretentious, humble, and confident in yourself so that you ask for help from your team when you need it.
• Are engaged in the development of AVA and take initiative to drive improvement work.
• Stays updated by accessing available information and guidelines. We wish for you to actively seek new knowledge and be able to apply it in practice to drive the development of the organization forward.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Licensed nurse
• At least one year of clinical experience or a Specialist Nurse degree in a relevant area for the position, as well as real and formal competence according to at least competence level step 1 according to the Stockholm Region's competence ladder for specialist nurses

Meritorious:

• Mentorship training

About the recruitment process

Selection and interviews may occur continuously during the application period.

When applying, you need to attach your CV. Instead of a personal letter, we ask you to answer selection questions and briefly explain why you are suitable for the role. Answering the questions is a prerequisite for your application to be considered complete.

Warm welcome to your application – Together we are Karolinska!

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