Pre-employment modules may be required for this role. Please upload any certifications or health documents you have to your profile to expedite your on-boarding process.

Additional Details:

Required Skills/Experience:

• Experience with pre/post heart patients — stents, pacemakers, ICDs, pre/post CABG, and pre/post vascular cases.

Special Requests:

• Permanent address must be at least 25 miles from the facility location.
• At least one reference must be from the same unit/specialty as the job.

Unit Details:

• Uses Epic.
• Nurse:patient ratios are 1:4 on days and 1:4-5 on nights.
• Heavy cardiac and cardiothoracic unit with high-acuity surgical patients.
• Common diagnoses, patient population, and procedures include pre/post cardiac procedures; femoral and radial heart cath procedures; cardioversions on the floor; post-thoracotomy directly from PACU; CABGs 24 hrs out; stents; post PCIs; vascular procedures; NSTEMI; trachs, including home-vented trachs; trachs with BiPAP and CPAP; and chest tubes.
• Some drips are titrated and some are not; dobutamine and dopamine are non-titratable, and the other drips are generally titratable.
• Common drips: Cardizem, amio, dopamine, nitro, dobutamine, Integrilin.
• Monitor techs are on the unit and do the monitoring, measuring, and documenting; travelers do not need to be experts at this.
• Uses BiPAP, CPAP, and home vents; home vent experience is not required.
• Nurse aides ratios: 1:8 on days and 1:12 on nights.
• Day charge does not take patients; night charge takes 1-2 patients.

Shift & Scheduling:

• Self-scheduling allowed.
• Block scheduling is allowed and is more commonly accommodated on nights.
• Every other weekend or 4 weekend shifts per month; more flexible on both shifts.
• Holiday rotation: every other holiday for the 6 main holidays — New Year's, 4th of July, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Memorial Day, and Labor Day.
• No call.

Floating Requirements:

• Possibly float; will be in with the permanent staff rotation.