Registered Nurse RN - Cardiovascular IMC - Night

Overview

Job Category: Nursing - Registered Nurse

Work Shift/

Schedule:

12 Hr Evening - Morning

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Cardiovascular Intermediate Care Unit

Department Overview

Cardiovascular Intermediate Care Unit (CVIMC) is a 24 Bed Unit monitored by the Central Monitoring Unit (CMU) with a 3:1 or 4:1 patient-to-nurse ratio.

Patients On this Unit:

• Pre-open heart surgery and other cardiovascular and thoracic surgery patients
• Stable post-op open-heart patients
• Cardiovascular and thoracic surgery patients
• Pre and post cardiac catheterization patients
• Pre and post cardiac intervention patients, including pacemaker insertions and ICD implantations
• Patients with arterial and venous sheath care, monitoring and removal
• Treatment of patients with cardiac arrhythmia
• Pre and post electrophysiology and ablation therapy
• Pre and post valve replacement, including TAVR

Earn Up to $15,000 Sign-On Bonus!

Experienced RNs, join our team in an acute care setting and receive up to a $15,000 sign-on bonus!

• Up to $15,000 bonus based on experience
• Competitive salary & benefits
• Career growth opportunities
• Relocation assistance available (over 50-mile radius)

We value your expertise and are here to support your success. Apply now and advance your nursing career with us!

Bonus and relocation terms apply.

Capable clinician with previous specialty experience preferred, focused on expanding knowledge and skills. Consistently provides effective direct care as part of the interdisciplinary team to a variety of complex patients. Seeks as well as provides feedback for improved clinical practice. Assumes a beginning clinical bedside leadership role and seeks mentoring in this process. Participates as a member on PNGC councils and Nursing Quality Teams as appropriate.

Actively participates on Unit Council helping with plans to improve NDNQI nursing sensitive indicators, RN Satisfaction, Employee Engagement, Culture of Safety, and Patient Experience data. Works together with other care team members to recruit and retain an excellent nursing care team. For the new graduate clinical RN: focuses primarily on developing knowledge and skills and showing growth in ability to care for increasingly complex patients.

Responsible for providing direct and safe patient care based on the nursing process, and for coordinating care for assigned patients on a shift to promote the achievement of clinical outcomes. Requires consultation with more experienced clinicians and accepts feedback as a constructive professional development tool.

• Licensure or other certifications: Graduated from an accredited nursing program and hold a current unencumbered license to practice as an RN in Georgia.
• Educational Requirements: Associate s Degree. ADN or Diploma required
• Minimum Experience: 0-1 year of RN experience – successful completion of new grad orientation or successful completion of an RN refresher course for acute care nurses
• Other:

• Preferred Licensure or other certifications: National certification in clinical specialty as eligible.
• Preferred
  
  Educational Requirements:
  
  BSN
• Preferred Experience:
• Other:

• Delivery of safe, effective, efficient care that meets population specific guidelines
• Actively works to make own and related teams successful, effectively communicates with patients, families and colleagues at all levels, shows consideration and respect for others and fosters customer service
• Effectively prioritizes, recognizes problems, and utilizes evidence based practice
• Demonstrates personal mastery, leadership of self and others, as appropriate, delegates appropriately, and supports NGHS shared governance model
• Basic computer skills necessary to operate computer systems used on unit

• Transformational Leadership – Demonstrates accountability for professional development that improves the quality of professional practice and patient care; makes recommendations for improvement of clinical care and the health of the workplace; develops…