ECMO Coordinator-Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU)
Looking to make an impact in your community? Want to be on the ground floor of developing a VAD Center? Look no further, Texas Health Dallas is looking for a Nurse Practitioner to help develop these programs and lead our ECMO Specialists. If this is you, come be a part of our amazing team at Texas Health Dallas, a Level I Trauma and MAGNET facility!
The ECMO coordinator position will work with a multidisciplinary team to provide outreach and educational support and assist with our growing program. The ECMO coordinator position will report directly to the Director for Critical Care and Cardiology and will work collaboratively with our STEMI coordinator to support cardiogenic shock initiatives and our Joint Commission Comprehensive Heart Attack Center designation.
WORK LOCATION: Texas Health Dallas, 8200 Walnut Hill Ln, Dallas, TX 75231
WORK HOURS: Full Time Days for 40 hours per week. 8A-5P, Mon-Fri
CVICU Department Highlights:
The CVICU is a 24-bed Intensive Care unit that specializes in advanced Cardiac and Vascular surgical procedures. Our ICU units are located in the Hamon Tower, the largest expansion in the hospital's history, which opened in 2009. Our board-certified critical care physicians directly oversee patient care in the ICU throughout the day. Providers are on the unit 24 hours a day. Critical care nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants - all trained in critical care medicine - work collaboratively to provide care in the ICU.
HERE'S WHAT YOU WILL NEED:
EDUCATION:
BSN-Bachelors of Science Nursing-Required AND
MSN-NP-Master's Degree Graduate of a Nurse Practitioner program required
EXPERIENCE:
2 years' experience as a nurse practitioner preferred.
Cardiac NP experience required.
Acute care nursing experience required.
CVICU experience preferred.
ECMO Experience preferred.
LICENSURE/CERTIFICATIONS:
RN-Registered Nurse upon hire required AND
APRN-Advanced Practice Nurse upon hire required AND
NP-Nurse Practitioner upon hire required.
BCLS - Basic Cardiac Life Support prior to providing independent patient care and maintained quarterly required.
ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support 30 Days preferred.
What You Will Do
Helping build ECMO program.
Managing and providing educational support to ECMO Specialist
Abstracting Data from registry
Coordinating patients within the program
coordinator to support cardiogenic shock initiatives.
Quality/Process improvement processes
Educational projects
Entity Highlights
For more than a half-century, Texas Health Dallas has been at the forefront of health care in North Texas. We're an 875-bed, Magnet-designated, full-service hospital serving our community in and around Dallas since 1966. We specialize in cancer care, cardiology, neurosciences, women's services and emergency medicine, we've got it. Plus, we're a renowned Level III neonatal Intensive Care unit, a Comprehensive Stroke and Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence and provide wellness services, outpatient surgery and women's imaging services. *Texas Health Dallas is a joint Commission-certified Comprehensive Stroke Center, a Level I Trauma Center, a Comprehensive Heart Attack Center, and a designated Magnet hospital. We're a top choice in North Texas for cancer and emergency services, bariatric services, cardiac care and much more. As part of the Texas Health family and its 28,000 employees, we're one of the largest employers in the Dallas Fort Worth area. Our career growth and professional development opportunities are top-notch and our benefits are equally outstanding. Come be a part of our exceptional team as we improve the health of the people in our communities every day. You belong here.
Additional perks of being a Texas Health Employee
Benefits include 401k, PTO, medical, dental, Paid Parental Leave, flex spending, tuition reimbursement, student Loan forgiveness as well as several other benefits.
Delivery of high quality of patient care through nursing education, nursing research and innovations in nursing practice.
Strong Unit Based Council (UBC).
A supportive, team environment with outstanding opportunities for growth.
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Do you still have questions or concerns? Feel free to email your questions to recruitment@texashealth.org.
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