CVICU RN: Critical Care Champion

Memorial Hospital - Chattanooga; Chattanooga (TN); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Memorial Hospital - Chattanooga is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) to provide compassionate, high-quality care across a patient-focused care team. You will perform assessments, implement care plans, and monitor patients in a fast-paced hospital setting.

You will collaborate with an interdisciplinary team, ensure patient safety, and support education for patients and families. A valid ADN and TN RN license, CPR, and ACLS are preferred within timelines.

Qualifications

• Associate Of Nursing upon hire.
• Registered Nurse: TN upon hire.
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support, within 6 months.

Responsibilities

• Diagnostic and patient monitoring (detection and recognition of acute changes and escalation or concerns/critical results).
• Administration and monitoring therapeutic interventions and regimens (starting/maintaining intravenous therapies, administering medication per patients’ rights, preventing falls and skin breakdown and following policies in relation to safety measures).
• Effective management of rapidly changing situations (identifying, assessing and anticipating needs).
• Organization and work rule competencies (prioritizing, coordination and meeting multiple patient needs in a timely manner).
• Helping Role (consistently contribute to a healing environment, providing patient comfort and support for human dignity, serving as a patient advocate and building and maintaining a therapeutic environment).
• Teaching-Coaching Function (assess and evaluates the patient’s readiness and ability to learn, effectively explains a patient’s condition and their interpretation of his or her illness).

Skills

Assessment skills

Critical thinking

Patient-centered care

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Patient advocacy

Education

Associate Degree in Nursing

Registered Nurse (TN)

Job description

Memorial Hospital - Chattanooga is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) to provide compassionate, high-quality care across a patient-focused care team. You will perform assessments, implement care plans, and monitor patients in a fast-paced hospital setting.

You will collaborate with an interdisciplinary team, ensure patient safety, and support education for patients and families. A valid ADN and TN RN license, CPR, and ACLS are preferred within timelines.