Job Description
Registered Nurse, RN II CVICU
Bring your passion to Texas Health so we are Better + Together
Work location: Texas Health Heart & Vascular Hospital, 811 Wright St, Arlington, TX 76012
Work hours: PRN - Days; Monday - Friday, 9:00am - 9:00pm
We are Texas Health Resources and 2023 FORTUNE Magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For®” (9th year in a row), 2023 FORTUNE Magazine’s “Best Workplaces for Women®”, and 2023 FORTUNE Magazine’s "20 Great Places to work in Health Care". You really do belong here.
CVICU highlights:
- Robust Unit Based Council (UBC) and engaged leadership team
- 47 bed facility including a 20 bed Cardiovascular ICU and a 27 bed Cardiac Telemetry unit.
- Texas Health Heart & Vascular Hospital is accredited for Chest Pain through The Joint Commission.
- We have achieved AHA’s Gold Plus award for five years in a row and Beacon Award Silver level through AACN for Cardiac Telemetry and CVICU. We are also 5 star rated through CMS.
- We specialize in CABG and Valve surgeries, TAVR, Impella, IABP, and Lung procedures. As well as general cardiac including heart failure, cardiomyopathies, AMI, post heart catheterization including angioplasty, stenting, electrophysiology studies, and device implantation
Qualifications
Nursing Degree, or Associate Degree in Nursing is required. BSN is preferred. (CLIAFE Must comply with CLIA regulations regarding foreign education equivalency required.)
- Current RN licensure or compact licensure recognized by the Texas Board of Nursing upon hire is required.
- One (1) year of experience as a clinical nurse or completion of an RN residency program is required.
- One (1) year of ICU experience with post op and advanced monitoring equipment including IABP, CRRT, and Impella is highly preferred.
- BCLS is required upon hire with an expiration date greater than 3 months preferred.
- ACLS is required within 90 days of hire.
- CPI – Crisis Prevention Intervention Training is required within 60 days of hire.
What You Will Do:
Delivers care to patients utilizing the Nursing Process
- Assesses the patient
- Plans the care of the patient
- Intervenes as appropriate
- Evaluates the effectiveness of interventions
- Incorporates age specific safety/infection control measures into patient care.
- Initiates action to meet patient and/or significant others need for information
- Maintains continuity of patient care inter-shift, inter-hospital, and while expediting out of hospital transfers.
Additional perks of being a Texas Health Nurse
· Benefits include 401k, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Discount Programs, as well as other benefits.
· Delivery of high-quality patient care
· Strong Unit Based Council (UBC).
· A supportive, team environment with outstanding opportunities for growth.
Explore our Texas Health careers site for info like Benefits, Job Listings by Category, recent Awards we’ve won and more.
Do you still have questions or concerns? Feel free to email your questions to recruitment@texashealth.org.
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Texas Health Hospital Rockwall is proud to serve the growing areas of Rockwall County, Kaufman County, Hunt County, eastern Dallas County, southern Collin County and outlying areas. Our commitment is to provide not only safe, high quality care but to combine that with compassion, understanding and personal attention. This commitment has garnered us many local and national awards, including recognition as a CMS 5 Star hospital awarded to just 10% of those hospital surveyed nationally!
Located on 33 acres in Rockwall just south of interstate 30, Texas Health Rockwall offers 60 inpatient beds for acute medical and surgical needs. The hospital continues to grow and visiting campus today you will find a Women's Imaging and Breast Center, a bariatric clinic, an ambulatory surgery center and a variety of physician practices all dedicated to our evolving community health needs. You will see that our long awaited expansion is well underway! This expansion, focused on a healthy future in this high growth area of North Texas, will double the size of our hospital adding more patient beds, a Level 2 NICU, Cardiac Cath Lab and expanding other departments including Labor & Delivery, OR and the emergency room.
What makes us different? Simply put, it is how we approach caring for you. From the focus on safety to the personal attention we provide, our patients should feel right at home at Texas Health Rockwall. As Cindy Perrin, hospital president says, "The difference is found in the heart of our facility – our staff and physicians - and in the way we love, respect and care about our community and each other. We treat our hospital like our home, treat each other like family, and treat our patients like neighbors. It's just who we are!
Texas Health Hospital Rockwall is a joint venture owned by Texas Health Resources and physicians dedicated to the community and meets the definition under federal law of physician-owned hospital.
