Cardiac Critical Care RN
Albuquerque, NM
Host Healthcare
3x12 hrs, Days
Referral Bonus

Job Opportunity: CCC RN

Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Employment Type: Clinical - Nursing
Contract Length: 13 weeks

Job Summary

• Provide direct patient care using the nursing process to an assigned group of patients during a shift.
• Ensure safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable care.
• Assess, plan, implement, evaluate, and document individual patient needs and responses.
• Coordinate patient care through collaboration with patients, families, and healthcare teams.
• Initiate and document appropriate protocols and standards of care.
• Administer medications and treatments as prescribed or per protocols.
• Identify and address patient and family learning and discharge needs throughout care.
• Supervise LPNs and non-licensed assistive personnel clinically.
• Complete patient population, age-specific, procedure, and protocol education and competency testing per unit standards.
• Floating between departments or local locations within 20 miles is required.

Required Qualifications

• Valid RN license in New Mexico
• Minimum 2 years of experience in a 12-plus bed cardiac critical care and/or intensive care unit (CVICU experience required)
• CVICU experience within the last year
• Total travel nursing experience of 13 weeks or more
• BLS certification issued by American Heart Association or American Red Cross
• ACLS certification issued by American Heart Association or American Red Cross
• NIHSS certification
• Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN) or Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN)
• Experience in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) setting

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with open heart surgery, LVAD, and balloon pump.
• EPIC electronic health record experience (training available on-site).

This position requires flexibility, clinical expertise in cardiac critical care, and prior travel nursing experience.