Critical Care Nurses

**Overview**

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Chandler, Arizona , has a stable suburban population with an economy anchored by many large financial, and high tech companies. Located southeast of Phoenix, Chandler is a skillfully developed community of friendly, diverse neighborhoods with expansive parks, great schools, convenient shopping, and excellent career opportunities.

For more than 50 years, Dignity Health’s Chandler Regional Medical Center has focused on quality patient care and service to the community. As the longest established hospital in the southeast valley, Chandler Regional has provided care for the Chandler community since 1961. The hospital recently added a new five-story tower with 100 patient beds, increasing the acute-care bed count to 429. This expansion increased emergency and trauma services, as well as the surgical unit and intensive care offerings.

The word “dignity” perfectly defines what our organization stands for: showing respect for all people by providing excellent care. At Chandler Regional, our employees are the heart and soul of our organization. They are the reason we are able to live out our healing ministry within the communities we serve. Our doctors, nurses and allied health professionals are a regular self-contained support system for each other. This unique working culture is one of the reasons why a career with us is so rewarding. Now is the perfect time to come grow your career with one of Arizona's Most Admired Companies (https://hospitals.dignityhealth.org/chandlerregional/Pages/default.aspx) .

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**Responsibilities**

Chandler Regional Medical Center’s Intensive Care Units provide patient care to Level One Trauma Cardiac Surgery ECMO Tandem Neurology Neurosurgery and Medical patients. Our ICU is an 80 bed ICU that consists of 36 Medical-Surgical Beds (12 of which are CVICU) 32 Surgical-Trauma-Neuro Beds and 12 Cardiac Care Beds which all house state of the art equipment. Chandler is ACS Level One Certified Trauma Center Accredited Stroke Center and is a Center of Excellence for Coronary Artery Bypass Patients and Mitral Valve replacements. The ratio for our ICU patients is 1:1 or 1:2 and is staffed 24x7 by certified Critical Care Intensivists.

The ICU has both a house wide as well as a unit based Shared Governance that is nurse driven to allow staff the autonomy and buy in into how the unit is run. We utilize self-scheduling. The four ICUs are led by a shared leadership team which provides many opportunities for growth as well as the ability to cross train within the various ICUs (Trauma Neuro Surgical Medical and CVICU).

**ECCO Program-This blended learning course takes a multi-dimensional approach to prepare the experienced RN to the critical care environment. This 12-week critical care training program blends computer based learning with weekly critical care sessions to prepare the RN who is new to the ICU environment to competently care for the critically ill adult patients. Computer modules focus on the fundamentals by providing the theoretical foundation necessary to care for critically ill patients while concurrent classroom sessions bridge the gap between online learning and nursing practice. Learning is reinforced in the clinical setting by preceptors on the units. The program provides a customized orientation plan with designated preceptors with oversight by the critical care educator and the ICU leadership team.**

+ As an ICU Nurse you have a desire to be challenged and excel in intense fast-paced environments. You will provide direct nursing care in accordance with established policies procedures and protocols of the healthcare organization. Critical thinking is what YOU love to do

MICU

+ As a Medical ICU Nurse you will provide direct nursing care to patients with sepsis DKA post cardiac arrest respiratory failure and various other medical conditions for this 36-bed unit to medical ICU.

CCICU

+ Cardiac Care Intensive Care Unit is a 12-bed medical cardiac intensive care unit in which you would provide direct patient care to lower acuity cardiac patients such as STEMIs percutaneous coronary interventions and vascular surgeries such as ELGs and carotid endarterectomy.

SICU

+ As a Surgical Trauma Neuro ICU Nurse you will provide direct nursing care to neurology neurosurgical Level I trauma and general surgery patients in this 32-bed Intensive Care Unit.

CVICU

+ As a CVICU Nurse you will provide direct nursing care in this 12-bed Cardiovascular Intensive Care unit (within the 36-bed MICU) recovering immediate post-surgical open heart patients such as CABGs valve surgeries and aortic repairs. The CVICU also provides care to patients on ventricular support devices and ECMO. Critical thinking is what YOU love to do. ( _*minimum 1 year of CVICU experience recovering open heart patients in the immediate recovery phase)_

**Qualifications**

**Minimum:**

One (1) year RN acute care experience.

ADN Diploma or foreign equivalent.

Current AZ State RN License in good standing.

American Heart Association BLS.

ACLS card must be obtained within 6 months of hire.

**Preferred:**

Bachelors of nursing degree.

Cerner knowledge.

**Pay Range**

$32.50 - $58.90 /hour

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.