CVICU Registered Nurse

CVICU Registered Nurse
Job ID: 66202005001

Job/Unit Description:

Despite seven Central Florida hospitals ranging from 40 to 900 beds and always expanding, Florida Hospital continues to maintain the small community hospital culture that nurses love. Our critical care units are areas where you can demonstrate your skill and compassion within the supportive and caring environment that Florida Hospital provides. The hospital supports nearly 600 critical care beds throughout all of the campuses, which allows our critical care nurses a variety of specialized units to work on. These units are range from ICU to PCU units that are specialized in cardiac, multi-system and much more. Florida Hospital is one of the nation’s top hospitals for nurses because of our specialties, come see why!

CVICU is a 28-bed post open heart intensive care unit. Our patients have had CABG, valve, Thoraco adominal, AAA or other type of vascular surgery. We are a recovery area and the patients are admitted to the unit, immediately post op. We make assignments according to patient acuity. We have 9 dedicated ORs and do an average of 2500 bypass cases per year. We have 16 surgeons and run off standing orders. We have Hewlett Packard Merlin Monitors with no central monitor, so nurses are responsible for staying at the bedside. We utilize Pleurovac and Emerson chest drainage systems and Gish cardiotomy reservoir for auto transfusion. Labs, x-rays, and ancillary services are ordered by computer. There is a satellite pharmacy and point of care lab open Monday through Friday 7a-11pm. Documentation is done on a tri-fold flow sheet with supplemental PIE charting. There is no mandatory OT in CVICU, but OT is available on an ongoing basis. We currently have full time, day shift openings on CVICU. Apply online and discover the possibilities at Florida Hospital. Sign on bonus and relocation assistance are available.

Full time, Days RN. Minimum 1 year recent open heart recovery experience required. Must have current Register Nurse Florida licensure.
To find out more about RN licensure in the state of Florida, please visit http://www.doh.state.fl.us/Mqa/nursing/ap_licensure-RN-LPN.pdf


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