Graduate Registered Nurse- Cardiac Surgery ICU - Full Time

As a Cardiac Thoracic ICU 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. 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. 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. Documents the nursing care plan and incorporates the nursing process following the standard of care for patient care area. Documents changes in patient condition and response to interventions within established timeframes.
Serves as an advocate for patients needs by demonstrating holistic care practices. Uses knowledge of cultural differences to provide patient care that is sensitive to and consistent with cultural values, beliefs, and customs.
Utilizes SBAR format tool to notify physicians, and other providers of clinical findings, performs nurse-to-nurse report at the bedside.
The Lung Transplant/Thoracic ICU at Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center is a dynamic environment where you can pursue a highly challenging and rewarding career. We play a critical role within the Thoracic Service Line of Excellence supporting its Norton Thoracic Institute, the only stand‑alone lung transplant center in the Nation. Committed to the highest level of patient satisfaction, our ICU unit is a dedicated 24 bed unit that supports St. Joseph’s adult thoracic post surgical patients, and medically managed respiratory disorders. We pride ourselves on our quality scores. We feature 12-hour shifts self-scheduling and have a nurse to patient ratio of 1:2 or 1:1. The ICU is fast paced with many learning and educational opportunities available with leadership support.
Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
Registered Nurse: AZ
One (1) year recent acute care experience
Bachelors Of Science Nursing
One (1) year of ICU Nurse experience
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 $18000 over five years while part-time employees can receive up to $9000.
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