Job Summary: Cardiovascular Intensive Care Nurse (CVICU RN)
- Provide direct care to immediate post-operative open heart patients, especially during first-day recovery.
- Deliver nursing care in a 10-bed Cardiovascular ICU within a hospital of 36 licensed inpatient beds, serving higher acuity cardiac cases.
- Care for a variety of medical and surgical patients, including but not limited to: pediatrics, pre/post PCI, pacemaker, revascularization, carotid endarterectomy, thoracotomy, CHF, COPD, DKA, renal failure, DVT, PE, sepsis.
- Monitor and manage hemodynamically stable or predictably unstable patients, recognizing and intervening in deteriorating conditions.
- Operate and manage advanced medical equipment: central lines, A-lines, chest tubes, nasogastric tubes, multiple IVs, and ventilatory support systems (noninvasive and invasive).
- Interpret cardiac telemetry and EKG, and perform other critical care monitoring.
- Collaborate with providers, healthcar...