Clinical Nurse - All Heart & Vascular Units

Job Description

Additional Information About the Role

Multiple RN opportunites within Heart and Vascular available!

• Up to $20,000 Sign-On Bonus
• $5 / hr Barnes-Jewish Hospital Med / Surg Nurse Differential for High-Risk Cardiology and the PCU's below
• Eligible hires will receive a one-time deposit of an additional 36 hours of PTO, 90 days after their start date
• Flexible Scheduling
• Great medical benefits
• Tuition assistance and continuing education
• 401(k)

BSN and ADN candidates welcome to apply.

High acuity telemetry units

Patients are admitted from ED, CCU, admitting, procedure areas and other hospital units, and from outside hospitals. Most of our patient population is those diagnosed with myocardial infarction requiring cardiac catheterization, congestive heart failure, heart arrhythmias, and pulmonary hypertension.

Most patients are diagnosed with congestive heart failure, heart arrhythmias, pulmonary hypertension, and other life-threatening conditions.  With this known diagnosis many may require cardiac catheterization and stent placement.  As a leader in advanced therapies for heart failure, we offer care to pre- and post- heart transplant and Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) patients. This unit specifically cares for readmitted LVADs and manage complex issues like pump clots, stroke, and manage medications.

Our nursing staff provides pre / post-operative care to the wide variety of interventions needed for peripheral vascular disease patients.  Surgical services include endoluminal and open repair of thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysms, thoracic outlet decompression, carotid artery angioplasty / stenting, carotid endarterectomies, dialysis access (fistulas / grafts), catheter-directed thrombolysis, and various bypasses and stents for aorto-iliac and upper / lower extremity occlusive disease.

Post Thoracic Surgery patients ranging from lung transplants, lung surgeries, and esophagectomy. In addition, we care for the Cardiothoracic population after they stabilize from the ICU. We will take care of Pre / Post CABG, Valve Repairs, Heart transplants, and other surgical procedures.

We provide post-operative care to cardiac surgery patients. Our most frequent procedures are CABG (coronary artery bypass graft), Cardiac Valve Repair / Replacement, LVAD (left ventricular device implantation), Aortic repairs, and MAZE.

Caring for highest acuity patients with MIs, cardiomyopathies and a variety of irregular rhythms (including life-threatening v-fib and v-tach). This is a device designated floor with LVADs, IMPELLAs, and intra-aortic ballon pumps. Non post-operative ICU with pre-surgical heart intervention patients.

Patients in the CTICU have had surgery from their esophagus to diaphragm, caring for both heart and lung surgical patient. Some procedures include open heart surgery, CABGs, valve replacements, active heart failure program (heart is failing and only thing to do for is to add devices), and ventricular assist devices. Surgical / post-operative ICU area, seeing patients post heart transplant, lung transplant and other cardiothoracic surgeries.

Overview

Preferred Qualifications

Role Purpose

Provides direct patient care activities including assessment, diagnosis, planning implementation, and evaluation within the guidelines of the standards of nursing care.

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Minimum Requirements

Education

Experience

Supervisor Experience

Licenses & Certifications

Preferred Requirements

Education

Experience

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