Cardiovascular Registered Nurse

Description

We are hiring and looking for the brightest and best to join our dynamic team on this Medical Telemetry Unit. We are offering competitive pay, benefits and sign-on bonuses! Come explore what we have to offer and what you can contribute to this unit. Here at Methodist Healthcare, our everyday decisions are founded on compassion. Apply today and join a team that is dedicated to serving others in need.

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We want to ensure your needs are met. We offer a variety of comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans along with some unique benefits including:

• Sign-on Bonuses
• Relocation Bonuses--when relocating
• Student Loan Repayment Program
• Tuition Reimbursement/Assistance Programs
• Paid Time Off
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Moving, mortgage, and real estate assistance
• 100% matching 401k based on years of service
• Identity Theft Protection discounts
• Auto, Home, and Life Insurance options
• Adoption Assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Our Registered Nurses have access to a variety of resources to help you reach your goals including:

• A comprehensive orientation process
• Valuable mentorship from specialty specific educators
• Leadership development programs
• State-of-the-art units equipped with the latest technologies in patient care

About the Unit:

• Number of beds: 30 beds
• Patient to nurse ratio: 4:1-5:1 ratio
• Patients cared for are Cardiac focused, Pre/Post Cath Lab, Patients with Cardiac Dx., Post CABG, Open heart post-op
• There are many opportunities for growth on this unit. We can offer a specialty bridge program for future growth and development after gaining experience within cardiac care

What You Will Do In Your Role:

• You will consistently apply the nursing process, critical thinking skills, scientific judgment, technical skills and leadership to independently deliver safe nursing care to patients.
• You will collaborate with the patient care team to achieve quality patient outcomes.
• You will provide communication, confidence, and professionalism as evidenced by active engagement in unit and organizational activities.
• You will demonstrate team work, adaptability, and serving as a resource to the patient care team.
• You will have accountability for delivering quality nursing care services and for promoting a positive image of nursing.

Metropolitan Methodist Hospital:

With over 370 beds Methodist Metropolitan Hospital offers outstanding heart and cancer care, general surgery, neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, obstetrics and gynecology services, inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation services, sleep disorder evaluation and the largest emergency room in downtown San Antonio. Our women’s pavilion is the only stand-alone center city facility dedicated to the health of women and their newborn babies, welcoming nearly 4,000 newborns into the world each year. Methodist Metropolitan Hospital is home to the Methodist Weight Loss Center and has been designated an American Society for Metabolic Surgery Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence®.

Metro CVTS/CVPCU

· Number of beds? CVTS 29/CVPCU 6, Total of 35

· Patient to nurse ratio? CVTS 1:5, CVPCU 1:3

· PCT’s on your unit? Ratio? 2-3 day shift, 2 night shift

· Patients cared for are Cardiac Telemetry, Pre/Post Cath Lab, Patients with Cardiac Dx., Intermediate Cardiac Patients

There are many opportunities for growth on this unit. Nurses start on CVTS side, and depending on skills will also work in CVPCU.

Critical factors to your success include:

Applies nursing judgment through a thorough, systematic approach of applying the nursing process to include:

• Assessment: Conducts comprehensive, timely, and ongoing focused physical, psycho- social and pain assessments; includes assessment of patient education needs.

• Planning: Utilizes the assessment, identifies problems, makes nursing diagnoses, formulates goals, teaching plans and outcomes to create an individualized plan of care. Identifies individual patient goals, readiness to learn and incorporates family into the plan of care.

• Implementation: Prioritizes and implements a competent, prioritized and efficient nursing plan of care.

• Evaluation/Reassessment: Consistently conducts timely evaluation, anticipates and recognizes changes in patient conditions, determines when reassessments are needed and adjusts the plan of care as necessary. Compares expected and achieved outcomes of nursing care utilizing the plan of care.

Job Requirements:

• You should be a graduate of an accredited diploma, associates, or baccalaureate degree nursing program. If you have a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) or certification in your specialty area you will be considered more highly qualified and eligible for our RN III position.
• You should possess your RN License to practice as a professional RN in the state of Texas or an Active Multi-State RN Compact License. If you have a Compact License you will be required to obtain a Texas RN License within 90 days of hire.
• You should have a current BLS and ACLS certification
• You should have 6 months of clinical experience as a licensed RN in the specialty area of hire.

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are actively interviewing so apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.