RN Cvicu

CommonSpirit Health • Lexington, KY

2d

About The Position

As a Registered Nurse (RN) in the CVICU, you will deliver compassionate, high-quality, individualized care to support patients’ well-being and recovery. You will make critical assessments, perform skilled procedures, and implement patient care plans while collaborating with an interdisciplinary team to achieve optimal patient outcomes. The role calls for keen assessment skills, critical thinking, a patient-first mindset, urgency, and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment.

The RN is responsible for acquiring the knowledge and skills needed for care in the practice setting; assessing and analyzing patient conditions to determine standard, urgent, or emergent interventions; and implementing or modifying plans of care using assessment data, standards of care, and evidence-based practice. Care includes coordination, patient and family education, and discharge planning. The RN facilitates interdisciplinary partnerships, protects patient autonomy, dignity, and rights, administers medications, IV therapy, and treatments according to policies and procedures, and evaluates progress toward desired outcomes.

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Registered Nurse license: Kentucky, upon hire.
• Basic Life Support (CPR), upon hire.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support within 90 days.

Responsibilities

• Acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for patient care in the identified practice setting.
• Assess patients and analyze problems and conditions using critical decision-making to determine the need for standard, urgent, or emergent interventions.
• Implement or modify plans of care using assessment data, standards of care, and evidence-based practice.
• Coordinate nursing care and provide appropriate patient and family education and discharge planning.
• Facilitate interdisciplinary partnerships in patient care.
• Integrate ethical provisions into nursing practice and preserve and protect patient autonomy, dignity, and rights.
• Administer medications, IV therapy, and treatments in compliance with policies and procedures.
• Evaluate progress toward desired patient outcomes.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed