Job Summary
Registered Nurse, Cardiovascular Intensive Care. The acute-care position provides specialized care for post-cardiac surgery and cardiac medical patients, including individuals requiring mechanical ventilation, tracheostomy care, invasive hemodynamic monitoring, and vasoactive medication titration. The assignment includes 12-hour day shifts and collaboration across critical-care settings as operational needs require.
Job Details
- Schedule: Day shifts of 12 hours, 36 hours per week, with every other weekend required.
- Required Qualifications:
- Registered Nurse license in Oregon; non-Oregon licensed registered nurses may be eligible for a temporary license.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certifications.
- Three years of registered nursing experience, including one year of cardiovascular intensive care nursing experience.
- Experience with post-cardiac catheterization recovery, postoperative day-one open-heart surgery patients, long-term ventilated patients, Swan-Ganz catheters, and vasoactive medication titration.
- Additional Information:
- Provides care for post-open-heart surgery and cardiac medical patients in an acute-care setting.
- Patient assignments generally range from one-to-one to one-to-two nursing ratios.
- Twelve hours of cardiovascular intensive care orientation are provided.
- Standard scrub attire is required.
- Level II trauma setting.
Benefits
The benefits of taking a travel assignment with Cross Country include:
- Private housing or generous housing allowance
- Comprehensive health insurance with prescription coverage
- Dependent health insurance with prescription coverage
- Competitive salaries
- Referral bonuses
- Travel reimbursement
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Direct deposit/free checking
- Unlimited free CE credits
