Registered Nurse, RN - CV ICU Float Pool

Tufts Medical Center is recognized by the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® for excellence in nursing. Magnet® recognition is the highest and most prestigious credential a health care organization can achieve for nursing excellence and quality patient care. Magnet® recognition signals to nurses that the organization is committed to nursing.

The nurses at Tufts Medical Center are integral to everything we do. They are often the ones patients interact with first, and sometimes the ones they interact with the most. It’s a critically important role, so our nurses are well-supported, well-respected, and very well-appreciated!

There’s an intensity and a pace to be embraced. You will have responsibility and accountability the minute you pull on the scrubs. You need to be the kind of person who gives everything you've got. Our patients deserve the best. Our nurses give it to them.

The Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CV ICU) Float Pool caters to several specialized units, each with a specific patient population and expertise:

Cardiovascular ICU Float Pool Units

Cardiac Surgical Intensive Care Unit (CSICU)

• Beds: 12
• Specialization: Complex cardiac surgical patients
• Patient Population: Post coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), valve replacements

Coronary Care Unit (CCU)

• Beds: 10
• Focus: Medically focused cardiac care
• Patient Population: Pre-operative and long-term patients with high acuity
• Devices Used: Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO), Impella

Cardiac Medical Care Unit (CMC)

• Beds: 16
• Specialization: Intermediate care for advanced heart failure, cardiac transplant (pre and post-operative)
• Required Knowledge: Advanced hemodynamics, Ventricular Assist Devices (VAD)

Preferred Qualifications for CV ICU Float Pool

• Knowledge of: Vasoactive and inotropic medications
• Proficiency in: Advanced hemodynamics
• Experience:
  • 2 years of cardiac ICU experience strongly preferred
  • Experience with Continuous Veno-Venous Hemofiltration (CVVH), Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump (IABP), Impella, Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVADs), Centrimag, ECMO

These qualifications ensure that staff in the CV ICU Float Pool are equipped to provide high-level care across the CSICU, CCU, and CMC units, handling a diverse and complex cardiac patient population.

Position/Job Title: Flex RN D/R

Home Department: CV ICU Float Pool

Job Profile Summary

​This role focuses on providing professional and nonprofessional nursing care services in accordance with physician orders. In addition, this role focuses on performing the following Clinical Nurse duties: Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates the care needs of a designated group of patients or provides nursing care and identified clinical support tasks within the scope of practice for achievement of the patient’s plan of care as directed. Provides professional nursing care to patients. Requires a nursing license. A professional individual contributor role that may direct the work of other lower level professionals or manage processes and programs. The majority of time is spent overseeing the design, implementation or delivery of processes, programs and policies using specialized knowledge and skills typically acquired through advanced education. A senior level role that requires advanced knowledge of job area typically obtained through advanced education and work experience. Typically responsible for: managing projects / processes, working independently with limited supervision, coaching and reviewing the work of lower level professionals, resolving difficult and sometimes complex problems.

Job Overview

The professional registered nurse possesses and applies the skills and knowledge necessary for the delivery and management of patient care from admission through discharge. The professional registered nurse is knowledgeable of current trends in healthcare including but not limited to advances in technology, pharmacology, treatment care modalities, quality and patient safety. The professional registered nurse serves as a patient and family advocate while facilitating a cooperative and collaborative environment among all health care providers. The professional registered nurse is responsible for the planning, delivery and management of patient/family centered care utilizing the nursing process and adhering to the standards of nursing practice embedded in research, evidence based practice and/or best practices. The professional registered nurse at Tufts Medical Center provides clinical excellence, which fosters and supports an environment central to our patient and family centered model of care.

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Registered Nurse (RN) license.

2. Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)

2. Specialty Nursing certifications.

3. 2 years Cardiac ICU experience strongly preferred.