Registered Nurse - Cardiovascular ICU

hhsc; Hamilton; On-site; CAD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Hamilton Health Sciences is seeking an experienced Registered Nurse for the ICU West at the HGH site, focusing on cardiovascular and critical care. The role involves coordinating patient care, delivering advanced life-support nursing, and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to ensure high-quality, patient-centered outcomes.

With certification, BCLS, and Level 3 critical care experience, you will contribute to teaching and research partnerships with McMaster University.

Qualifications

• Current Certificate of Registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario.
• Current Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) certification.
• Recent (within 2 years) nursing experience in Level 3 critical care unit (as defined by CCSO).
• Demonstrated experience with hemodynamic and cardiac monitoring, mechanical ventilation, resuscitation and management of shock syndromes and other advanced life support interventions.
• Demonstrated knowledge and application of interpersonal and inter-professional conflict resolution and HHS Values Based Code of Conduct and Mutual Respect.
• Demonstrated knowledge and application of critical thinking to effectively manage prioritization of work in a rapidly changing environment.
• Demonstrated knowledge and application of Service Excellence Behaviours to interactions with patients and families.
• Demonstrated commitment to self-directed professional education and development.
• Demonstrated understanding of Problem Solving and Continuous Quality Improvement Processes.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and evaluate patient care according to Standards of Practice.
• Provide nursing care for highly complex patients using advanced life-support modalities.
• Support the Critical Care Response Team for HGH site with multidisciplinary collaboration.
• Support learning and conduct world-renowned research in affiliation with academic partners.

Skills

Critical thinking

Interprofessional collaboration

Conflict resolution

Adaptability

Service excellence

Self-directed learning

Problem solving

Education

Certificate of Registration (Ontario)

Tools

ECMO

Impella

CRRT

Job description

Step into a job that opens countless doors. As one of Canada’s largest and most diverse hospitals, we’re providing advanced care to people of all ages from across the province. You can explore advancement opportunities, take professional development courses, and stretch yourself as a leader, all at HHS. We are the largest employer in the greater Hamilton region, and play a vital role in training the next generation of health professionals in collaboration with our academic partners, including McMaster University and Mohawk College. Hamilton Health Sciences is a hospital system of 18,000 staff, physicians, researchers and volunteers that proudly serves south central Ontario residents. We also provide specialized, advanced care to people from across the province.

Located in the Hamilton’s downtown core, the Hamilton General Hospital (HGH) is home to the Hamilton Center for Vascular Health (HCVH). As a center of excellence in cardiovascular and stroke care, we service a population of 2.3 million residents within the central south region of Ontario and beyond. The HCVH provides leadership and innovation in delivering tertiary and quaternary care in the areas of cardiology, cardiac surgery, vascular surgery, stroke and thrombosis through an interdisciplinary patient-centered model of care. Our partnerships with McMaster University and the David Braley Cardiac, Vascular and Stroke Research Institute allow us to provide world renowned research, more community based care, increase emphasis on population health and health promotion, patient and family engagement and maximize the use of technology and innovation. The ICU West is a 16 bed, level 3 tertiary and quaternary unit performing the highest volume of cardiovascular surgical procedures in the province.

Using a multidisciplinary and collaborative team approach, dedicated to the principles of patient-and family-centered care, the Registered Nurse coordinates and evaluates patient care and provides nursing care according to the Standards of Practice of the College of Nurses of Ontario, and Standards of Practice for Critical Care Nurses in Ontario. Our nurses treat highly complex patients using innovative treatment modalities including Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO), Impella, Intra-aortic Balloon Pump and Continuous Renal Replacement Therapies (CRRT). The ICU also supports the Critical Care Response Team for the HGH site, bringing highly skilled, specialized, critical care nurses, as members of a multidisciplinary team, to offer support and consultation outside of the ICU. As a Royal College Accredited training program and through our affiliation with McMaster University, we offer opportunities for learning and conduct world renowned research.

Rotating days, evenings, nights, weekends and holidays

• Current Certificate of Registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario
• Current Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) certification
• Recent (within 2 years) nursing experience in Level 3 critical care unit (as defined by CCSO)
• Demonstrated experience and ability in caring for patients requiring Hemodynamic and Cardiac Monitoring, Mechanical Ventilation, Resuscitation, Management of Shock Syndromes and other advanced life support interventions (subject to testing)
• Demonstrated knowledge and application of interpersonal and inter-professional conflict resolution and HHS Values Based Code of Conduct and Mutual Respect
• Demonstrated knowledge and application of critical thinking to effectively manage prioritization of work and respond to a rapidly changing environment
• Demonstrated knowledge and application of Service Excellence Behaviours to all interactions with patients and families
• Demonstrated commitment to self-directed professional education and development
• Demonstrated understanding of Problem Solving and Continuous Quality Improvement Processes

Hamilton Health Sciences fosters a culture of patient and staff safety, whereby all employees are guided by our Mission, Vision, Values, and Values Based Code of Conduct. Hamilton Health Sciences is a teaching hospital and all staff and physicians are expected to support students and other learners.

Hamilton Health Sciences is an equal opportunity employer and we will accommodate any needs under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom, Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act and the Ontario Human Rights Code. Hiring processes will be modified to remove barriers to accommodate those with disabilities, if requested. Should any applicant require accommodation through the application processes, please contact Human Resources at 905-521-2100, Ext. 46947 for assistance. If the applicant requires a specific accommodation because of a disability during an interview, the applicant will need to advise the hiring manager when scheduling the interview and the appropriate accommodations can be made.

This competition is open to all qualified applicants, however, qualified internal applicants will be considered first. Past performance will be considered as part of the selection process. If you are a previous employee of Hamilton Health Sciences, please note: the circumstances around an employee's exit will be considered prior to an offer of employment. Proficiency in both Official Languages, French and English, is considered an asset.

If this position is temporary, selection for this position will be as per the outlined Collective Agreements:

• Article 30 (k), CUPE Collective Agreement
• Article 10.7 (d), ONA Collective Agreement
• Article 13.01 (b) (ii), OPSEU 273 Collective Agreement
• Article 14.04, OPSEU 209 Collective Agreement
• Article 2.07 and Article 13, PIPSC RT Collective Agreement