Job Description

Description

New Graduate Nurse – Cardiac Medicine Intermediate Care Unit (7HV)

UNC Health Rex | Cardiac Medicine Intermediate Care Unit (7HV)

Launch your nursing career in a specialized cardiovascular progressive care environment at UNC Health Rex. This position is open to new graduate nurses and RNs with less than 12 months of experience.

The 12-month UNC Health Rex Nurse Residency Program supports your transition to professional practice through specialty-specific orientation, mentorship, professional development, continuing education, and evidence-based practice.

Start dates are based on graduation and NCLEX completion dates.

Nurse Residency Program

Residents receive:

• Specialty-specific clinical orientation and training

• Support from preceptors, educators, nurse leaders, and peers

• Professional development and continuing education

• Evidence-based practice project

• Regular progress check-ins and development milestones

The program focuses on building clinical competence, confidence, critical thinking, clinical decision-making, leadership, and quality patient care.

About 7HV Cardiac Medicine Intermediate Care Unit

The 24-bed Cardiac Medicine Intermediate Care Unit (7HV) provides intermediate-level care for adult and geriatric patients with cardiac conditions and complex medical co-morbidities.

Patients include those with heart failure, dysrhythmias, acute myocardial infarction, complex cardiac conditions, and those recovering from cardiac and vascular procedures.

Unit Highlights

• Specialized cardiovascular and progressive care

• Adult and geriatric patient population

• Pre- and post-cardiac and vascular procedure care

• Continuous telemetry monitoring through the Telemetry Command Center

• GE bedside cardiac monitoring in every room

• In-room computers with immediate electronic medical record access

• Strong interdisciplinary collaboration

The unit provides an excellent environment for new graduate nurses to develop assessment, critical-thinking, clinical decision-making, and cardiovascular nursing skills. Nurses collaborate with physicians, advanced practice providers, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, rehabilitation specialists, telemetry technicians, and nursing leadership.

Throughout residency, you’ll receive support from experienced nurses, educators, and leaders dedicated to your professional growth.

Why UNC Health Rex?

Join an organization of more than 40,000 teammates committed to improving the health and well-being of the communities we serve.

Recognition includes:

• America's Greatest Workplaces for Diversity

• America's Greatest Workplaces for Women

• Best Hospital in WRAL Voters' Choice Awards

• Top 100 Hospital for Stroke Care

• Named among the World's Best Hospitals

Incentives

This position may qualify for:

• Up to $25,000 in tuition loan forgiveness, based on eligibility

• Up to $5,000 in relocation assistance, based on eligibility

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited professional nursing program

• Current NC RN license or eligibility to obtain licensure before providing clinical care

• BLS certification for Healthcare Providers

New graduate eligibility includes:

• Nursing students in their final semester

• Nursing graduates within 12 months of graduation

• RNs with less than 6 months of RN experience

Start your nursing career on 7HV and build the skills, confidence, and clinical judgment needed to thrive in cardiovascular nursing.

Begin your nursing career in a collaborative cardiovascular specialty unit where you will be supported, challenged, and empowered to grow into a confident and skilled professional nurse.

Responsibilities:
1. Education - Participates in identifying and meeting learning needs of self. Attends education programs based on identified learning needs. With assistance, uses patient education materials relevant to patient population. Assesses readiness to learn of the patient/family/caregivers. Assesses developmental level of patient and factors affecting ability to learn.
2. Evaluation of Care - Identifies expected patient outcomes. Seeks guidance as needed in revision of plan of care. Participates in discussion with members of the interdisciplinary team in evaluation of patient care. Communicates relevant information to promote continuity of care.
3. Implementation - Demonstrates competence in care of patients with complex problems, including population-appropriate physical, psychosocial, educational and safety aspects of care. Performs bedside point of care testing as required for patient care plan. Utilizes healthcare organization and nursing standards, policies and procedures in delivery of care. Organizes and prioritizes care according to patient/family needs. Consults with appropriate resources in a timely fashion regarding patients with complex care issues, unusual teaching needs and/or those at high risk for discharge planning.
4. Leadership - With assistance, develops goals to promote professional growth or minimize limitations. Achieves goals and objectives within identified time frame or renegotiates with supervisor. Is knowledgeable about activities which facilitate intra/interdepartmental collaboration. Participates in development and achievement of unit goals and performance improvement activities. Effectively uses communication systems. Participates in promoting cost-effective care. Gives feedback to co-workers. Is aware of public policy and regulatory guidelines affecting the health care environment. Promotes a safe, clean and secure hospital environment for all
5. Patient Assessment - Recognizes data from complex situations to determine priorities for care. Includes appropriate physical, psychosocial, education and safety needs. Synthesizes assessment data into meaningful whole prior to communication to others. Assesses and anticipates discharge needs of individual patients and families. Develops relationships with families that promote their ability to advocate for the patient and their own needs.
6. Planning - Collaborates with patient/family to prepare or update the plan of care. Makes use of available multidisciplinary resources in planning care. Begins to use full range of communication as a means to convey planning. Identifies and addresses cultural and ethnic issues in planning patient care. Demonstrates ability to prioritize tasks for patients with complex problems.
7. Research - Reads journals that contain studies or articles that may be applicable to practice. Brings ideas and questions to the staff at large for assessment of applicability.

Other Information

Other information:
Education Requirements:
● Graduation from a school of professional nursing.
● If hired after January 6, 2014, must be enrolled within four years of employment, and obtain a Bachelor's degree with a major in Nursing or a Master's degree with a major in Nursing within seven years of employment date.
Licensure/Certification Requirements:
● Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of North Carolina by the day of clinical care.
● Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Provider certification
Professional Experience Requirements:
● No prior experience required.
Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:

Job Details

Legal Employer: NCHEALTH

Entity: UNC REX Healthcare

Organization Unit: Rex 6 HV/CV Stepdown

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 36.00

Salary Range: $32.55 (Minimum)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Onsite

Work Schedule: Rotating

Location of Job: US:NC:Raleigh

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No

This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Heath Care System. This is not a State employed position.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email [email protected] if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.