RN CTICU, Forbes Hospital

Highmark Health•Monroeville, PA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse in Forbes Hospital’s 8-bed Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit (CTICU) assesses human responses and plans, implements, and evaluates nursing care for assigned individuals and families. The nurse is fully responsible for actions taken as a licensed nurse and accountable to patients for the quality of care delivered. The CTICU specializes in cardiothoracic surgery, cardiovascular interventions, and vascular surgery. It supports a growing program that performs new procedures and admits more than 250 open-heart surgery patients annually. Commonly used devices include IABP, Impella, EKOs, transvenous pacemakers, and Swan-Ganz catheters. The unit is supported by a primary cardiothoracic surgeon, 24/7 intensivists, and interventional cardiologists. Care is patient-centered and nurse-driven, with multidisciplinary, daily nurse-led rounds. The unit also serves as a transitional care unit for open-heart surgery patients. Allegheny Health Network is a nine-hospital system and part of Highmark Health. Forbes Hospital is a 315-bed Level II trauma hospital in Monroeville, offering services including trauma, neurosurgery, cardiothoracic surgery, interventional cardiology, obstetrics, and psychiatry. The RN provides leadership in a professional practice setting, collaborates with an interdisciplinary team, and supports patient safety and quality initiatives. The nurse uses the nursing process to develop and deliver individualized care, communicates with patients and families, and evaluates outcomes and satisfaction. The role includes assigning or delegating tasks as appropriate, mentoring colleagues, maintaining clinical competence, and complying with hospital policies and applicable privacy, security, ethical, and legal requirements.

Requirements

Current Pennsylvania RN licensure or current multistate licensure through the enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC).
CPR certification.
Act 34 Criminal Background Clearance Certificate.
Act 33 Child Abuse Clearance Certificate.
Act 73 FBI Fingerprinting Criminal Background Clearance Certificate.

Nice To Haves

Certification in the area of specialty.

Responsibilities

Assess human responses and plan, implement, and evaluate nursing care for assigned patients and families.
Provide leadership in a professional practice setting and contribute to team development through role modeling, mentoring, and sharing knowledge and skills.
Assign or delegate tasks based on patient needs and staff skill levels; assign duties and lunches when serving in a charge role.
Consider environmental safety, patient condition, intervention complexity, and outcome predictability when assigning work.
Provide peers with verbal and written feedback on clinical practice and role performance.
Participate in interdisciplinary evaluation of clinical care and health services.
Promote patient safety initiatives and participate in department-specific quality initiatives; ensure appropriate order sets are used.
Supervise, delegate to, and evaluate LPN practice within the assigned scope as appropriate.
Develop and carry out an individualized plan of care in accordance with patient needs, prescriptions, and nurse and hospital policies, involving patients and families.
Determine culturally and age-appropriate expected outcomes with patients, families, and other healthcare providers.
Analyze health information to determine patient care needs and assess, report, and document changes in condition; notify a physician or supervisor and intervene appropriately.
Accept assignments outside the primary unit and perform duties within individual competency.
Pursue continuing learning and professional development, use current research and evidence, and participate in professional organizations and peer review.
Meet hospital time and attendance guidelines and manage time effectively to complete duties within the established work shift.
Continuously evaluate patient and family satisfaction, participate in department-specific satisfaction initiatives, communicate compassionately, and attempt to resolve patient and family concerns.
Protect confidential and covered information and comply with HIPAA, information security policies, the Code of Business Conduct, and applicable laws and policies.