Registered Nurse - Ambulatory Subspecialty Care Float

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Registered Nurse II, Ambulatory Float

Department/Unit: Ambulatory Subspecialty Care
Shift/Hours: Days | 32 hours/week
Locations: Primary locations include Burnet and Liberty Campuses; additional ambulatory locations may be assigned based on operational needs.

Bring Your Expertise to Pediatric Ambulatory Care

Cincinnati Children’s is seeking an experienced and adaptable Registered Nurse II, Ambulatory Float to provide high-quality nursing care across a broad range of ambulatory subspecialty clinics.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to develop and maintain clinical expertise across multiple pediatric subspecialties while supporting the changing needs of ambulatory care. You will work with diverse patient populations, clinical teams, and workflows while providing safe, compassionate, family-centered care.

As an Ambulatory Float RN, you will progressively orient to multiple ambulatory subspecialty areas based on clinical readiness, organizational priorities, and operational needs. You will assume independent assignments after completing the appropriate specialty-specific orientation and competency validation.

What You’ll Do

• Provide safe, high-quality nursing care across assigned ambulatory subspecialty clinics following completion of appropriate orientation and competency validation.
• Develop and maintain clinical competencies across multiple ambulatory specialties and patient populations.
• Adapt to different clinical environments, patient populations, workflows, team structures, and operational needs.
• Collaborate with nurses, providers, clinical leaders, educators, medical assistants, and other members of the interdisciplinary team.
• Perform patient assessments, provide nursing interventions, administer medications and treatments, and support patient and family education within the ambulatory setting.
• Utilize specialty-specific resources, workflows, protocols, and just-in-time education when transitioning between clinical areas.
• Recognize individual scope of practice and competency limitations and appropriately seek guidance or escalate concerns when needed.
• Maintain required competencies and participate in ongoing education as clinical practices, technologies, and patient care needs evolve.
• Communicate proactively regarding assignment readiness, clinical concerns, workflow barriers, and support needs.
• Demonstrate flexibility and professionalism when transitioning between ambulatory subspecialty environments.
• Contribute to consistent, high-quality patient care across ambulatory locations and specialties.
• Provide constructive feedback regarding orientation, workflows, resources, and processes to support the continued development of the Ambulatory Float RN role.

What We’re Looking For

Required:

• Current Registered Nurse license in the State of Ohio.
• 2 years nursing experience
• Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) or Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN); BSN preferred.
• Demonstrated clinical nursing experience.
• Strong assessment, critical-thinking, communication, and organizational skills.
• Ability to adapt quickly to changing clinical environments and patient care needs.
• Ability to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams.
• Commitment to providing compassionate, family-centered pediatric care.

Preferred:

• Pediatric nursing experience.
• Ambulatory or outpatient nursing experience.
• Experience working across multiple specialties or clinical environments.
• Strong interest in developing broad pediatric ambulatory nursing expertise.
• Demonstrated ability to learn new clinical workflows, technologies, and specialty-specific competencies.

Why Cincinnati Children’s?

At Cincinnati Children’s, we come to work with one goal: to make children’s health better.

As an Ambulatory Float RN, you will have the opportunity to work with a diverse range of pediatric patients and families while developing a broad foundation of ambulatory nursing expertise. You will be part of collaborative teams across our ambulatory practices and play an important role in ensuring patients receive safe, consistent, high-quality care.

If you are an experienced nurse who enjoys variety, learning, collaboration, and caring for children across different specialties, this is an opportunity to grow your expertise while making a difference throughout Cincinnati Children’s ambulatory care environment.

Join Cincinnati Children’s and help us make children's health better.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Compliance - Patient Services Staff - Sustain a working understanding of regulatory requirements and accreditation standards. Support leadership in Compliance efforts to meet and sustain the regulatory compliance efforts of the department and hospital. Be mindful and judicious in monitoring safety and departmental policies and procedures. Ensure all individual certifications and Safety College requirements are fulfilled in a timely basis. Work with department managers, nurse council and magnet representatives to identify and share safety best practices. Be mindful of CCHMCs processes and compliance with CMS standards and freely communicate safety and compliance concerns to leadership team members.

• Interprofessional Practice - Demonstrates consistent integration of the Interprofessional Practice Model (IPM) in all aspects of practice.

• Clinical inquiry & performance review to improve practice - Follows standards and guidelines; implements clinical changes and research-based practices developed by others; recognizes the need for further learning to improve patient care; recognizes routine or obvious changing patient situation (e.g., deterioration, crisis); in unusual care situations, seeks help when needed to identify patient problem. Uses self-appraisal performance review and peer review, including annual goal setting, for assurance of competence and professional development to promote safe and ethical practice using the nursing process. Demonstrates openness to coaching and mentoring from others. Facilitates learning by assisting with peer and student learning experiences. Works with department managers, nurse council and magnet representatives to identify, share, implement and evaluate safety best practices.

• Uses systems thinking - Sees the pieces or components; sees patient and family within the isolated environment of the unit; sees self as key resource to support the family through the healthcare experience through care coordination. Sustains a working understanding of regulatory requirements and accreditation standards. Supports leadership in efforts to meet and sustain the regulatory compliance efforts of the department and hospital. Monitors and complies with safety and departmental policies and procedures. Ensures individual certifications and Safety College requirements are fulfilled in a timely basis. Is mindful of CCHMCs processes and compliance with CMS standards and freely communicates safety and compliance concerns to leadership team members.

• Patient Care - Age Specific and Culturally Inclusive - Consistently integrates age specific and culturally inclusive concepts into patient care, taking into consideration both the patient's chronological age and developmental functioning.

• Collaborates with team using shared decision making - Is receptive to the contributions of the interdisciplinary team in team meetings and discussion regarding patient issues. Participates in shared governance at the point-of-care as a member of unit-based councils or by demonstrating awareness and contributing to shared decision making (reading minutes, giving feedback and implementing council decisions).

• Clinical judgment when performing caring practices - Collects clinical data; follow algorithms, decision trees, and protocols. Matches formal knowledge with clinical events to make appropriate decisions; uses available resources as needed. Documents plan of care, care delivered, and patient and family outcomes. Focuses on the usual and customary needs of the patient and family; anticipates future needs; bases care on standards and protocols; maintains a safe physical environment; acknowledges death as a potential outcome. Consistently integrates age specific concepts into patient care, taking into consideration both the patient's chronological age and developmental functioning. Using self-management support, develops care goals and actions through partnerships with patients and families. Facilitates patient and family learning by providing structured education based on the plan of care goals, and the needs of the patient and family; uses teach back to evaluate effectiveness.

• Exhibits advocacy, moral agency and response to inclusion - Works on behalf of patient and family; assesses personal values; aware of ethical conflicts/issues that may surface in clinical setting; makes ethical/moral decisions based on rules; represents patient when patient cannot represent self; aware of patients' rights. Assesses cultural inclusion. Recognizes the potential impact of culture on the patient/family experience and incorporates culturally inclusive concepts into patient care.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS

• Associate/Diploma prepared RNs from ACEN, CCNE or NLN CNEA accredited institution requires 2+ years of experience. If hired without a BSN or MSN, must enroll in a BSN or MSN program within 1 year of hire date/RN job date and complete program within 5 years of hire/RN job date.

• Preferred: BSN from ACEN, CCNE or NLN CNEA accredited institution or MSN are preferred.

• Active Ohio RN License. May be required to obtain other state licensure.

At Cincinnati Children’s, we come to work with one goal: to make children’s health better. We believe in a holistic team approach, both in caring for patients and their families, and in advancing science and discovery. We strive to do better and find energy and inspiration in our shared purpose. If you want to be the best you can be, you can do it at Cincinnati Children’s. 

 Cincinnati Children's is: 

• Recognized by U.S. News & World Report as a top 10  best Children's Hospitals in the nation for more than 15 years 

• Consistently among the top 3 Children's Hospitals for National Institutes of Health (NIH) Funding 

• Recognized as one of America’s Best Large Employers  (2025), America’s Best Employers for New Grads (2025) 

• One of the nation's America’s Most Innovative Companies as noted by Fortune 

• Consistently certified as great place to work 

• A Leading Disability Employer as noted by the National Organization on Disability 

• Magnet® designated for the fourth consecutive time by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) 

 We Embrace Innovation—Together.  We believe in empowering our teams with the tools that help us work smarter and care better. That’s why we support the responsible use of artificial intelligence. By encouraging innovation, we’re creating space for new ideas, better outcomes, and a stronger future—for all of us.

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Cincinnati Children’s is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to creating an environment of dignity and respect for all our employees, patients, and families. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, genetic information, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. EEO/Veteran/Disability