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Are you a specialist nurse with experience working in emergency care and/or other relevant specialties such as medicine, surgery, or intensive care? Do you want to contribute to the development of AVA while simultaneously developing your own profession? Then AVA at Karolinska in Solna is an option for you. We work with highly specialized emergency care where you can utilize your full skill set. As a specialist nurse with a clinical development assignment within AVA, you have extended responsibility for operationally close development, and the specialist assignment includes 10% administrative time.

Become part of our team as a specialist nurse at AVA, a highly specialized emergency care unit where the patient is in focus!

What we offer

• A complex and stimulating workplace
• Interprofessional team-based work
• Individually adapted introduction and mentorship program
• Opportunities for personalized competence development through internal and external training
• Opportunity to initiate and drive development projects to promote nursing within the organization
• Networks for collaboration within organizational development
• Multiple career paths: Clinical, Leadership, Research, and Education
• Regular reflection and collegial support

Of course, you will also benefit from our general perks offered by Karolinska University Hospital.

About the position

AVA is undergoing a change process where we have received a clearer mandate within highly specialized emergency care. At AVA, you will lead the content and direction of nursing work and ensure that patients receive nursing care according to best practice and proven experience!

In the administrative work, the focus is on patient-oriented development areas as well as organizational and competence development. As a specialist nurse with a clinical development assignment, you collaborate with medical specialists and other professions to ensure that staff provides the most optimal care for the individual patient from the perspective of all involved professional fields.

Clinically, you as a specialist nurse play an important role in person-centered care, and you work in a team together with nursing assistants and doctors. We work to ensure the patient's need for basic and advanced nursing care.

Within AVA, patients with acute deterioration of vital functions or unclear conditions requiring investigation, stabilization, increased supervision, monitoring, and treatment are cared for. This may involve initiating Non-Invasive Ventilation (NIV), High-Flow, taking blood gases, telemetry monitoring, and NEWS 2 with closer intervals. The patient's condition should be potentially reversible or treatable, and the average length of stay is approximately 1.5 days. We can also care for patients with tracheostomy and EDA. Common reasons for admission may include arrhythmia, pulmonary embolism (PE), intoxication, COPD, sepsis, neutropenic fever, electrolyte imbalance, smoke inhalation, etc.

The work is varied and involves a high pace, immediate actions, quick decisions, and you need the capacity to reassess the plan as treatment goals change.

As a specialist nurse with a clinical development assignment, you work mostly clinically but have 10% administrative work. Together with other specialist nurses with the same assignment, you are part of a larger collaboration working on healthcare development, both within your own nursing area and within the hospital.

We are looking for you who

• Are positive, driven, and have a genuine interest in nursing and see the patient as a natural participant in the team
• Are responsible and accountable, and have a great interest in and willingness to develop within advanced emergency care
• Are engaged in the operations and the individual meeting with the patient and relatives
• Actively seek new knowledge and apply it in practice to drive the development of the operations forward
• Are confident in yourself and find your way quickly in a changing everyday life
• Can plan, prioritize, and act independently but are also capable of changing direction as goals are redefined
• Are flexible in both the relationship to the critically ill patient's needs and meeting new needs through change

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Specialist Nurse degree, 60 credits, in a field relevant to the operations
• Real and formal competence, at least competence level step 1 according to Region Stockholm's competence ladder for specialist nurses.
• At least 3 years of experience from emergency care or another relevant field.

Merits:

• Experience in emergency care
• Supervisor training

About the recruitment process

Selection and interviews may take place continuously during the application period.

In connection with your application, you need to attach a CV. Instead of a cover letter, we ask you to answer selection questions and briefly motivate why you are suitable for the role. Answering the questions is a prerequisite for your application to be considered complete.

We warmly welcome your application - Together we are Karolinska!

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