CVICU Nurse

About the Role

The Registered Nurse (CVICU) coordinates and delivers high-quality, patient-centered care in accordance with state and specialty scope and standards. You will influence patient care through open, collaborative relationships and formal opportunities such as hospital councils and national nursing initiatives. Your role includes shaping decisions that elevate patient outcomes and the future of nursing.

In collaboration with medical providers and the care team, you will provide individualized, compassionate care using established nursing models: Assess, Perform, Teach, and Manage. You will serve as a patient and family advocate, supporting the organization’s vision, mission, and values to ensure an unparalleled patient experience and clinical outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Perform procedures, monitoring, and other functions as ordered by medical providers.
• Document the administration of care in the patient medical record in a timely and thorough manner.
• Teach patients, families, and caregivers about medical conditions, patient status, treatment plans, medications, side effects, and follow-up measures, translating complex medical terminology for complete understanding.
• Educate patients and families on non-medicinal follow-up measures, such as healthy diet, exercise, disease prevention, and lifestyle changes.
• Prepare patients and families for future self-management.
• Manage evidence-based practices and continuous process improvement initiatives to meet and exceed quality measures.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to coordinate, evaluate, customize, and deliver a holistic patient treatment plan that promotes and supports recovery.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse (RN) license.
• Bachelor’s Degree, Associate Degree, or Registered Nurse Diploma.
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date).
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (must be obtained within 6 months of employment start date).

Benefits

TriStar Centennial Medical Center offers a total rewards package supporting health, life, career, and retirement:

• Comprehensive medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health, and telemedicine benefits.
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services.
• Paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage, and leaves of absence.
• Retirement savings resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service) and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, and financial wellbeing counseling.
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships, and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing.
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection, and consumer discounts.

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

About the Facility

TriStar Centennial Medical Center is a 740+ bed comprehensive facility offering medical and surgical programs, including:

• Behavioral health and 24-hour emergency services.
• Heart and vascular, imaging, neurosciences, oncology, orthopedics, pediatrics, rehabilitation, sleep disorder, and women’s services.

The 43-acre campus is home to:

• TriStar Centennial Heart & Vascular Center.
• TriStar Centennial Women’s Hospital.
• The Children’s Hospital at TriStar Centennial.
• Sarah Cannon Cancer Institute at TriStar Centennial Medical Center.
• TriStar Centennial Advanced Joint Replacement Institute.
• TriStar Centennial Parthenon Pavilion.

HCA Healthcare, the parent organization, has been named one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere Institute for ten consecutive years (2010–2019). In 2019, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion on charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.