Cardiac RN
Memorial Hospital - Chattanooga
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Cardiology · Cardiovascular · Critical Care
Posted Jul 15
- Unit
- Cardiac
What the listing says
Role
- Setting
- Hospital
- Accepts
- RN
Ratio not posted. Ask in the interview.
Pay
- Against the board
- $14/hr below the median
The median for Cardiac in Tennessee is $48/hr, across 14 postings.
About this role
As our Cardiac Nurse, you'll care for patients who may have life-threatening cardiac events or conditions while helping their families navigate daily care and the long-term plan for healing and maintenance outside of the hospital. You'll never have the same day twice as your patients' needs evolve. That's why you must be adaptable and detail-oriented, observing vitals and reporting the warning signs early to our multidisciplinary team of cardiologists, EKG techs, and other cardiovascular professionals.
Your success in this role comes from your enthusiasm to go the extra mile for your patients and your strong assessment skills. To further support your nursing career, we offer continuing education opportunities to help you advance your clinical nursing skills. Diagnostic and patient monitoring (detection and recognition of acute changes and escalation or concerns/critical results).
Administration and monitoring therapeutic interventions and regimens (starting/maintaining intravenous therapies, administering medication per patients' rights, preventing falls and skin breakdown and following policies in relation to safety measures). Effective management of rapidly changing situations (identifying, assessing and anticipating needs). Organization and work rule competencies (prioritizing, coordination and meeting multiple patient needs in a timely manner).
Helping Role (consistently contribute to a healing environment, providing patient comfort and support for human dignity, serving as a patient advocate and building and maintaining a therapeutic environment. Teaching-Coaching Function (assess and evaluates the patient's readiness and ability to learn, effectively explains a patient's condition and their interpretation of his or her illness.
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Requirements
- Associate Degree in Nursing (required)
- Registered Nurse License - TN (required)
- Basic Life Support - CPR (required, upon hire)
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (required, within 6 months)
- Bachelor's degree in Nursing (preferred)
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (preferred)
- Experience working with cardiac care patients
Benefits
- Continuing education opportunities
Place
- City
- Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Median rent
- $1,256/mo
- Local household income
- $64,523/yr
- Metro price level
- 8% below the national average
rent and tenant-paid utilities · Census ACS 2024
all local households, not nurse pay · Census ACS 2024
Chattanooga area index 91.5, where 100 is the national average.
Chattanooga sits along the Tennessee River, framed by the Appalachian foothills. The revitalized Southside district and Walnut Street Bridge give the city a walkable, outdoorsy feel. Nurses relocating here find mid-size affordability, a growing medical corridor, and easy weekend access to trails, rivers, and mountain overlooks.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 metro Regional Price Parities · Census ACS 2024.
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Memorial Hospital - Chattanooga is a hospital located at 2525 de Sales Ave, Chattanooga, TN 37404, and is part of CommonSpirit Health, one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the United States. The facility is affiliated with CommonSpirit Medical…
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Cardiac is a specialty you move into. Start on tele or stepdown; cath lab and CVICU usually come later.
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