RN Clinical Nurse II - 4 HV Cardiac Intensive Care

Description

Full-Time | Day Shift | UNC Rex Healthcare

Are you an experienced critical care nurse looking to make a meaningful impact in advanced cardiovascular care? Join our 20-bed Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU), where you'll care for a high-acuity patient population while working alongside a highly skilled, collaborative interdisciplinary team.

Our CICU is a fast-paced environment where teamwork, clinical excellence, and compassionate patient care come together every day.

Our team specializes in caring for critically ill cardiovascular patients with complex conditions, including:

• STEMI and acute coronary syndromes
• Advanced heart failure
• Cardiomyopathy
• Cardiogenic shock
• Post-cardiac arrest care

You'll collaborate closely with physicians, APPs, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, care managers, chaplains, patient care technicians, telemetry support staff, and experienced critical care nurses to provide comprehensive cardiovascular critical care.

• Deliver safe, high-quality critical care to complex cardiovascular patients
• Monitor and manage patients requiring advanced hemodynamic therapies
• Recognize and respond to rapidly changing patient conditions
• Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to develop individualized plans of care
• Educate and support patients and their families
• Participate in quality improvement and evidence-based practice initiatives
• Support a culture of teamwork, professional development, and clinical excellence
• Mentor and support fellow team members

• Supportive and collaborative team environment
• Engaged leadership that invests in professional development
• Strong interdisciplinary partnerships
• Opportunities for continued learning, growth, and advancement
• Clinically advanced, high-acuity patient population
• Culture focused on teamwork, respect, and excellence

Required:

• Current RN license
• BLS certification
• ACLS certification
• At least one year of acute care nursing experience

Preferred:

• Cardiovascular ICU, Cardiovascular Care or other critical care experience
• Experience with IABP, Impella, CRRT, or TTM
• Cardiovascular critical care experience
• Strong communication and teamwork skills
• Commitment to continued learning and professional growth

This position qualifies for the UNC Rex Incentive Program, which may include:

• Up to $20,000 commitment incentive, based on eligibility
• Up to $25,000 in tuition loan forgiveness, based on eligibility
• Up to $10,000 in relocation assistance, based on location
• Employee referral program

If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, enjoy caring for complex cardiovascular patients, and want to grow your critical care expertise alongside an exceptional team, we would love to hear from you!

Apply today and join the UNC Rex CICU team, where your expertise, compassion, and commitment to excellence can make a difference every day.

Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.

Summary:
Provides competent clinical nursing care consistent with professional standards. Reporting and accountable to the Nurse Manager/Director, the Clinical Nurse is responsible for coordinating and delivering patient care utilizing the nursing process in a hospital setting.

Responsibilities:
1. Education - Participates in identifying and meeting learning needs of self. Attends education programs based on identified learning needs. With assistance, uses patient education materials relevant to patient population. Assesses readiness to learn of the patient/family/caregivers. Assesses developmental level of patient and factors affecting ability to learn.
2. Evaluation of Care - Identifies expected patient outcomes. Seeks guidance as needed in revision of plan of care. Participates in discussion with members of the interdisciplinary team in evaluation of patient care. Communicates relevant information to promote continuity of care.
3. Implementation - Demonstrates competence in care of patients with complex problems, including population-appropriate physical, psychosocial, educational and safety aspects of care. Performs bedside point of care testing as required for patient care plan. Utilizes healthcare organization and nursing standards, policies and procedures in delivery of care. Organizes and prioritizes care according to patient/family needs. Consults with appropriate resources in a timely fashion regarding patients with complex care issues, unusual teaching needs and/or those at high risk for discharge planning.
4. Leadership - With assistance, develops goals to promote professional growth or minimize limitations. Achieves goals and objectives within identified time frame or renegotiates with supervisor. Is knowledgeable about activities which facilitate intra/interdepartmental collaboration. Participates in development and achievement of unit goals and performance improvement activities. Effectively uses communication systems. Participates in promoting cost-effective care. Gives feedback to co-workers. Is aware of public policy and regulatory guidelines affecting the health care environment. Promotes a safe, clean and secure hospital environment for all.
5. Patient Assessment - Recognizes data from complex situations to determine priorities for care. Includes appropriate physical, psychosocial, education and safety needs. Synthesizes assessment data into meaningful whole prior to communication to others. Assesses and anticipates discharge needs of individual patients and families. Develops relationships with families that promote their ability to advocate for the patient and their own needs.
6. Planning - Collaborates with patient/family to prepare or update the plan of care. Makes use of available multidisciplinary resources in planning care. Begins to use full range of communication as a means to convey planning. Identifies and addresses cultural and ethnic issues in planning patient care. Demonstrates ability to prioritize tasks for patients with complex problems.
7. Research - Reads journals that contain studies or articles that may be applicable to practice. Brings ideas and questions to the staff at large for assessment of applicability.

Other information:
Education Requirements:
* Graduation from a school of professional nursing.
* If hired after January 6, 2014, must be enrolled within four years of employment, and obtain a Bachelor's degree with a major in Nursing or a Master's degree with a major in Nursing within seven years of employment date.
Licensure/Certification Requirements:
* Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of North Carolina.
* Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Provider certification
Professional Experience Requirements:
* One (1) year of nursing experience.
Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:

Legal Employer: NCHEALTH

Entity: UNC REX Healthcare

Organization Unit: Rex CICU 4HV

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 36.00

Salary Range:$34.22 - $48.38 per hour (Hiring Range)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Onsite

Work Schedule: Day Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Raleigh

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No

This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Heath Care System. This is not a State employed position.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email applicant.accommodations@unchealth.unc.edu if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.