Description
The Heart and Vascular Center at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire has consistently been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as high-performing in abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, aortic valve surgery, heart attack, heart bypass surgery, and heart failure. As a distinguished leader in clinical trials and advanced medical science, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center is a nationally recognized, Level-1 Academic Medical Center and is the #1 ranked hospital in New Hampshire.
What does this mean for you as a CVCC Nurse?
It means career diversity, professional cross-training, a supportive and cohesive team, and dynamic, interesting cases.
The Cardiovascular Critical Care Unit (CVCC) is a very specialized cardiology medicine and cardiothoracic surgery inpatient intensive care unit that is experiencing extensive growth. Our CVCC nurses receive advanced training to care for a wide variety of acute cardiac patients, including cardiogenic shock, advanced heart failure, complicated STEMIs, cardiac arrests, unstable electrophysiology conditions, and immediate post-operative cardiothoracic surgery care. Our nurses also go through specific education on various cardiac assist devices, including Impellas, Intra-Aortic Balloon Pumps (IABP), and Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). The CVCC nursing team thrives on teamwork and collaboration with our highly skilled physician partners and is an incredible place to learn, grow, and develop cardiac-specific critical care nursing skills while being part of an incredibly supportive care environment.
We are a rapidly growing cardiovascular medicine and cardiac surgical team that cares for a wide variety of patients with underlying cardiac issues. We perform well over 600 open-heart cases a year and have the best outcomes for myocardial infarctions in all of New England. We have a very dynamic team that prides itself on teamwork and collaboration. We are supportive of nurses at all levels and have created a Heart and Vascular-specific orientation to help support nurses in gaining the skill set to be successful in the progressive care and critical care cardiac environment. Previous experience in cardiology, cardiac surgery, progressive care or critical care is not required to be successful on one of our teams in the HVU or CVCC! The nurse that will be successful working on HVU & CVCC is one that possesses strong interpersonal skills, has a desire to continuously learn, thrives working in a fast-paced, challenging environment and has a passion for cardiac medicine and surgery.
Qualifications for a CVCC nurse:
- Graduate from an accredited Nursing Program required.
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing (BSN) with 1 year of experience.
- Associate Degree (ADN) prepared nurses with 2 years' experience.
All Associate Degree (ADN) prepared nurses must commit to completing a BSN or higher nursing degree within 10 years of their hire date.
Are you wondering if you can make the transition to cardiac nursing without prior cardiac experience? The answer is YES.
Nurses can absolutely work and learn in the Cardiovascular Critical Care Unit (CVCC). Part of the onboarding process for all RNs is participating in progressive and critical care classes. This allows you to come off orientation with the skills necessary to care for any level of care provided on the unit. All RNs on the CVCC need ACLS certification; however, this can be obtained after hire if a nurse does not already hold this certification. Additionally, we encourage and support our RNs to obtain additional certifications, including CCRN certification for nurses in our cardiology critical care unit (CVCC).
These are just a few highlights of being a CVCC nurse at Dartmouth Health in New Hampshire.
- We have loan repayment up to $20,000
- We offer Relocation Assistance and a Housing Coordinator to take on the burden of finding a home.
- We have new, updated nursing rates
- We offer generous tuition reimbursement
- We have a very popular "earned time" plan
- We have extensive CEU/Training programs
- Our 8,000 ft Patient Safety and Training Simulation Center is state-of-the-art
- Our nurses serve as central figures in the success of our system through our shared governance nursing model
- We offer a rigorous, research-focused environment
Why are we so unique? We are a nationally recognized Academic Medical Center in the middle of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. We understand that “quality of life” means different things to different people, but we are confident you will love it here as we have beautiful, rural and suburban housing options, world-class primary, secondary and graduate schools, hundreds of lakes, thousands of miles of hiking trails and some of the best skiing in the country. This means you can be a happy nurse with more quality time with friends, family, pets, or maybe just quiet hikes by yourself. Our idea of traffic is a line at the chair lift on the ski mountain.
Read more about Dartmouth Hitchcock and why YOU should work here.
We are Dartmouth Health, one integrated, award-winning health system of diverse facilities across New Hampshire and Vermont. From rural critical access clinics to academic medicine and research, you will find the opportunity, training, benefits, and support to help you thrive in your career. We are an organization focused on the success of every employee in every role and want you to be part of our team. Join Dartmouth Health and help us shape the future of healthcare.
Applicants are encouraged to visit our nursing career site and CVCC landing page to learn more and apply:
https://dhnursing.org/cardiac-nursing-at-dartmouth-hitchcock-medical-center/
Dartmouth Health is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.
