RN - CA Cardiovascular Care Unit - Days

Cardiovascular Unit Nursing Opportunity

The Cardiovascular Unit (CVU) at Enloe Medical Center is a 30 bed unit that provides medical, pre-operative and post-operative surgical care to admitted patients that are generally classified as medium to high acuity patients. Patients admitted to the unit are stable, have a high potential of becoming unstable, have a higher complexity and existing co-morbidities, and require a higher level of nursing care than found on the general patient care units. The patient population served by the Cardiovascular Unit consists of the young adult through the geriatric patient community. Examples of patients admitted to the Cardiovascular Unit are as follows: Cardiac diagnoses, Pre/Post cardiac artery bypass surgery, carotid endarterectomy, Acute Myocardial Infarction (MI), Post pacemaker insertion, Arrhythmia detection, CHF, pneumonia and other like disease processes. The patient to nurse ratio shall not exceed 1:4.

Must have:

• Current CA RN license
• Current BLS
• Current ACLS
• EPIC charting experience
• 2 years of Critical Care experience
• Successful completion of prior traveler assignments

May float to other units including Med/Surg

Shift: 12hr, Days, 0700 start

Specialty Type: Nursing

Sub Specialties: Cardiac Progressive Care (CPCU), Cardiovascular ICU, Critical Care (CCU), CVICU, Telemetry Cardiac

General Certifications: General Certifications(BLS/BCLS,ACLS)