Registered Nurse Cardiovascular Care Unit
Billings, Montana
Health system employer
RN · Cardiology
Posted Jun 23
- Unit
- CCU
What the listing says
Role
- Term
- Permanent
- Setting
- Hospital
- Accepts
- RN
Ratio not posted. Ask in the interview.
Pay
- Against the board
The median for nursing in Montana is $38/hr, across 98 postings. It covers every nursing role in the state, so it is a bearing, not a like-for-like comparison.
About this role
The Registered Nurse (RN) is a professional caregiver who assumes responsibility and accountability for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating the care of patients. The staff RN utilizes the nursing process by use of technology, therapeutic intervention, evidence-based practice and coordination of care with other health team members.
Essential Functions
Assess: Performs appropriate assessment of physical, social, and psychological status (including cognitive, communicative, and developmental skills as appropriate). Seeks and evaluates information acquired from other members of interdisciplinary team: patient, family, physician, non-nursing disciplines, support staff, others. Plan: Uses assessment information and critical thinking skills to collaboratively develop individualized plan of care.
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Actively seeks patient, family, team, and physician involvement to develop plan of care including needed education. Collaboratively plans and prepares patients for further support needs once the current episode of care outcomes are met (i.e., teaching, referrals, and follow-up). Implement: Directs the interdisciplinary care team via delegation, coordination, and collaboration as appropriate.
Provides or delegates care consistent with plan of care, guidelines of care and professional licensure provisions. Demonstrates the ability to set priorities and to coordinate and organize patient care delivery through effectively managing time, supplies, and resources. Evaluate: Evaluates patient response to interventions through review of achievement of goals, clinical outcomes, patient, and family satisfaction.
Revises plan of care as indicated and reassesses changes as appropriate. Professionalism: Promotes nursing profession and participate in development of others. Integrates legal and ethical standards into practice, complies with regulatory standards, practices within scope of licensure, provides accurate & timely documentation, and understands legal implications of care delivery.
Skills
- Patient Care Delivery
- Nursing Fundamentals
- Interdisciplinary Teams
- Documentations
- Professional Etiquette
- Accountability
- Patient Care Coordination
- Communication
- Patient Evaluation
- Critical Thinking
Minimum Qualifications
Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in state of practice. Valid compact licenses must be transferred to the state of practice within 60 days of the start of employment. RNs with less than 12 months of experience must obtain their Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) within four (4) years of their hire date. Basic Life Support Certification (BLS) for healthcare providers.
Preferred Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in nursing (BSN). Education must be obtained from an accredited institution. Degree will be verified.
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) is required as of the job description's last update on 4/27/2025. Employees hired or promoted prior to this date will be held to the minimum requirements that were in place at the time of their promotion or hire.
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Requirements
- Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in state of practice. Valid compact licenses must be transferred to the state of practice within 60 days of the start of employment.
- RNs with less than 12 months of experience must obtain their Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) within four (4) years of their hire date.
- Basic Life Support Certification (BLS) for healthcare providers.
- Preferred Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in nursing (BSN). Education must be obtained from an accredited institution. Degree will be verified.
- Preferred Qualifications: Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) is required as of the job description's last update on 4/27/2025. Employees hired or promoted prior to this date will be held to the minimum requirements that were in place at the time of their promotion or hire.
Place
- City
- Billings, Montana
- Median rent
- $1,138/mo
- Local household income
- $73,712/yr
- Metro price level
- 6% below the national average
rent and tenant-paid utilities · Census ACS 2024
all local households, not nurse pay · Census ACS 2024
Billings area index 93.5, where 100 is the national average.
Billings, Montana's largest city, sits along the Yellowstone River beneath the dramatic Rimrocks—sandstone cliffs that rim the city's north edge. A regional medical hub for the Northern Plains, it blends outdoor access, frontier heritage, and urban conveniences that appeal to RNs seeking big-sky living without sacrificing professional opportunity.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 metro Regional Price Parities.
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Intermountain Healthcare is a large nonprofit health system headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, with 83 offices and approximately 19,912 employees. Founded in 1975, the system has expanded its footprint across the Mountain West region, including a presence in Billings,…
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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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