RN - Vascular ICU

How You’ll Help Transform Healthcare:

RN opportunity on Vascular ICU, part of Carilion Clinic's Cardiovascular Institute. Rotating shift with weekend and holiday rotation. $30,000 sign on bonus available. Relocation or travel allowance bonus for qualifying candidates. 

The Vascular Thoracic Intensive Care Unit is a 12-bed surgical ICU that offers a unique opportunity for RNs beginning their nursing career, those with experience, and those seeking advanced nursing roles in the future, such as NP or CRNA. This unit is one of the two surgical ICUs making up Carilion’s Cardiovascular Institute (CVI).

Learn from experts how to assess neurological, vascular, and cardiac systems. Work with patients recovering from endovascular surgery, vascular surgery, thoracic surgery, neurological trauma, cardiac disease, and stroke.

RN will have an enormous skill set after completing orientation, including invasive hemodynamics, advanced stroke care, neurosurgical interventions, ventricular drains, chest tubes, Cardiac Surgery Advanced Life Support (CSU-ALS), National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) certification, Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) and Massive Blood Transfusion protocol (MTP).

We seek nurses who want to learn new skill sets and care for high acuity patients in a safe, structured, and supported learning environment. As a team member, you will discover a culture of teamwork, professionalism, mutual respect, and most importantly, a commitment to high-quality patient-centered care.

As part of CVI, this unit will be relocating to the new Crystal Spring Tower by 2025. The Crystal Spring Tower is a 400,000-square-foot expansion to Roanoke Memorial Hospital – the future home of our Cardiovascular Institute and an expanded Emergency Department. This video explains the stages of construction, which began in the summer of 2020.

The RN's duties include, but may not be limited to the following:

• Age specific admission and ongoing assessments are completed, documented and used to develop a plan of care.
• Collaborates with members of the health care team/patient/family to develop, implement, and evaluate an age-specific interdisciplinary plan of care.  Revises plan according to changes in patient status.
• Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates patient care in order to achieve optimum patient outcomes for patients of all ages as appropriate to service area.
• Treatments and medications for patients of all ages are accurately administered and documented utilizing automated computer systems, including electronic medical records.

Interested candidates can call or text Melissa Ferguson, recruiter, at 540.525.4093 or e-mail mbwatts@carilionclinic.org for more information.

What We Require:

Education: Graduate of school of professional nursing of an accredited college or graduate of an approved program eligible to sit for the VA licensure exam.

Licensure/Certification: Currently licensed as Registered Nurse in Virginia or eligible to obtain Virginia RN licensure. Obtain CPR, and as needed ACLS, PALS, NRP certifications.

Other: Computer skills required for electronic medical record (EPIC). Successfully complete orientation and competency requirements. Meet essential job functions.

About Carilion

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An organization where innovation happens, collaboration is expected and ideas are valued. A not-for-profit, mission-driven health system built on progress and partnerships. A courageous team that is always learning, never discouraged and forever curious.

Headquartered in Roanoke, Va., you will find a robust system of award winning hospitals, Level 1 and 3 trauma centers, Level 3 NICU, Institute of Orthopedics and Neurosciences, multi-specialty physician practices, and The Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute.

Carilion is where you can make your own path, make new discoveries and, most importantly, make a difference. Here, in a place where the air is clean, people are kind and life is good. Make your tomorrow with us.