Registered Nurse (RN)—Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CVICU)--PRN Days

Texas Health Resources • Dallas, TX

9d • Onsite

About The Position

The Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CVICU) at Texas Health Dallas is a 30-bed intensive care unit specializing in advanced Cardiac and Vascular surgical procedures. Located in the Hamon Tower, our ICU units benefit from the hospital's largest expansion in 2009. Board-certified critical care physicians directly oversee patient care, with providers on the unit 24 hours a day. Critical care nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants, all trained in critical care medicine, work collaboratively to provide care. Staffing is acuity-dependent, typically maintaining a 2:1 ratio. Texas Health Dallas, a Magnet-designated, full-service hospital serving the North Texas community since 1966, specializes in cancer care, cardiology, neurosciences, women’s services, and emergency medicine. It is recognized as a Comprehensive Stroke Center, Level I Trauma Center, Comprehensive Heart Attack Center, and a designated Magnet hospital.

Requirements

• Diploma of Nursing OR Associate degree in Nursing (ADN) required
• One-year critical care nursing experience, or completion of an RN residency required
• BCLS - Basic Cardiac Life Support prior to providing independent patient care and maintained quarterly Required
• ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support Upon Hire Required (Expiration date greater than 3 months preferred)
• CPI - Crisis Prevention Intervention Training Maintained Annually within 90 Days Required

Nice To Haves

• BSN preferred
• Cardiac ICU experience strongly preferred – including open-heart surgery recovery, IABP, Impella, CRRT, and bedside ECMO management.

Responsibilities

• Delivers care to patients utilizing the Nursing Process
• Assesses the patient
• Plans the care of the patient
• Intervenes as appropriate
• Evaluates the effectiveness of interventions
• Incorporates age specific safety/infection control measures into patient care.
• Initiates action to meet patient and/or significant others need for information
• Maintains continuity of patient care inter-shift, inter-hospital, and while expediting out of hospital transfers.

Benefits

• 401k
• PTO
• medical
• dental
• Paid Parental Leave
• flex spending
• tuition reimbursement
• student loan repayment programs

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree