Travel CVICU Registered Nurse - $2,335 per week

Pluto Healthcare is seeking a travel nurse RN CVICU for a travel nursing job in Akron, Ohio.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty : CVICU
• Discipline : RN
• Start Date : 11 / 16 / 2025
• Duration : 13 weeks
• 36 hours per week
• Shift : 12 hours, nights
• Employment Type : Travel

BLS, ACLS, NIH required (AHA), 2+ years of RN open heart experience, no more than 7 days of requested time off, nursing degree from an ACEN or CCNE accredited school required, recent EPIC Charting experience required

This is a 26-bed cardiac open-heart cardiac thoracic vascular unit. RN MUST have 2+ years of open-heart experience. ACLS / BLS / NIH Required. Recent EPIC experience is required and must be provided on resume within the last year. STEMI, NSTEMI, Heart Failure, Pulmonary Emboli (with right strain) and electro physiology patients. Also overflow for the MICU but most of those patients are respiratory failure patients in case they would require ECMO therapy during their stay. We do a mix of open hearts. Some CABG, some valve, some both. CABG is our biggest open heart patient population. We average 1 open heart a day Monday-Friday. We also take some lung surgeries such as lobectomy, wedge resection, and vats on a case-by-case basis. We do something different here than other hospitals which maintain open hearts until discharge and downgrade as their condition improves. Must be independent in obtaining labs and initiating IV's. CVICU Skills checklist is required upon submission. Ratios are usually 1 : 1 or 1 : 2 but can go up to 1 : 3. Our cardiovascular surgeons are on call.

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