Job Title: Registered Nurse
Profession: RN
Specialty: CVICU
Duration: 13 weeks
Shift: 07:00 - 19:00
Hours per Shift: 12
Experience: Minimum 2 years
License: RN License
Certifications: ACLS, BLS
Must-Have:
Strong critical care experience, including CVICU experience
Skills with PA catheter and hemodynamic monitoring
Preferred experience with IABP, Impella, and CRRT
Description:
This position is for a CVICU Registered Nurse.
The unit consists of 16 beds with patient ratios of 1:2 and 1:1 for certain device patients.
A free-floating charge nurse assists the staff.
Unit secretaries and Administrative Care Techs are available Monday through Friday.
Student Nurse Externs assist nurses by performing tech duties on variable shifts.
The unit is equipped with Phillips bedside telemetry monitors, Hill-Rom beds, and Alaris IV pumps.
Documentation is completed using Meditech.
Nurses are required to work 2 weekends per month and 1 summer holiday.
They are also expected to work 2 winter holidays.
Employees float to other ICU units as needed, which may include other floors.
There are no specific patient experience requirements.
The unit provides care to immediate post-operative cardiac surgery patients, including those on ECMO, Centrimags, and HM3 LVADs.
Nurses are expected to perform procedures such as central line insertion, Swan insertion, and intubations.
The unit includes an intensivist who is assigned 24/7.
The team comprises driven nurses committed to excellent teamwork.
This unit has received distinguished awards, including recognition for excellence in care.