CCICU Nurse

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery.

Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

To be successful in this role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

• Provides comprehensive, safe, and effective, evidence-based nursing care to achieve desired health outcomes for the patient.
• Organizes and prioritizes patient care activities balanced with the needs and comfort of the patient.
• Demonstrates accountability for own ethical behavior, and supports ethical practice by addressing and/or escalating issues.
• Serves as an advocate for patients needs by demonstrating holistic care practices.
• Demonstrates the ability to recognize and adapt to changes in patients condition (i.e. Lab, vitals, signs and test values) in a timely and clinically appropriate manner.
• Utilizes SBAR format tool to notify physicians, and other providers of clinical findings, performs nurse-to-nurse report at the bedside.

Chandler Regional Medical Center's Intensive Care Units provide patient care to Level One Trauma Cardiac Surgery ECMO Tandem Neurology Neurosurgery and Medical patients. Our ICU is an 80 bed ICU that consists of 36 Medical-Surgical Beds (12 of which are CVICU) 32 Surgical-Trauma-Neuro Beds and 12 Cardiac Care Beds which all house state of the art equipment. Chandler is ACS Level One Certified Trauma Center Accredited Stroke Center and is a Center of Excellence for Coronary Artery Bypass Patients and Mitral Valve replacements. The ratio for our ICU patients is 1:1 or 1:2 and is staffed 24x7 by certified Critical Care Intensivists.

The ICU has both a house wide as well as a unit based Shared Governance that is nurse driven to allow staff the autonomy and buy in into how the unit is run. We utilize self-scheduling. The four ICUs are led by a shared leadership team which provides many opportunities for growth as well as the ability to cross train within the various ICUs (Trauma Neuro Surgical Medical and CVICU).


CCICU- This is the unit you are applying for as a CCICU Nurse:

• Cardiac Care Intensive Care Unit is a 12-bed medical cardiac intensive care unit in which you would provide direct patient care to lower acuity cardiac patients such as STEMIs percutaneous coronary interventions and vascular surgeries such as ELGs and carotid endarterectomy.

Dignity Health now offers an Education Benefit program for benefit-eligible employees after 180 days. This program provides debt relief and student loan assistance to help you achieve your goals. Full-time employees can receive up to $18,000 over five years, while part-time employees can receive up to $9,000. Join our team at Dignity Health to take advantage of this amazing opportunity!

Job Requirements

Required

• Diploma and One (1) year RN experience., upon hire and
• BSN, upon hire and
• ADN , upon hire or
• Foreign Equivalent, upon hire and
• Registered Nurse: AZ, upon hire and
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire and
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support, within 6 - months

Preferred

• One year intensive care experience.

Where You'll Work

Located in the Phoenix, Ariz., suburb of Chandler, the Chandler Regional Medical Center is a 429-bed, not-for-profit hospital with more than 2,600 team members and almost 1,000 doctors on staff representing all major specialties. Chandler Regional joined the Dignity Health system in 1999, but has been part of the community for more than 50 years. The hospital includes a Level I Trauma Center, a Heart and Vascular Center, a Wound Healing Center, a Family Birth Center and many additional services. Dignity Health Chandler Regional, Mercy Gilbert, and Arizona General Hospital Mesa awarded $422,000 in grants to support five community projects led by 15 local organizations. Since 1991, Dignity Health's Community Health Improvement Grants program has provided $91 million to nearly 3,800 health projects, focusing on vulnerable and underserved populations.