Nurses in the Cardiovascular Telemetry Unit at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia function within a total care nursing system. The Cardiovascular Telemetry Unit treats both adult and pediatric cardiovascular surgical patients post-CSICU. It has a total of 32 beds: (22 cardiovascular beds: three vascular beds: seven pediatric cardiology beds).
The most commons procedures:
• Various forms of cardiovascular surgeries.
• The most common adult cardiovascular surgical procedures are CABG, valve repair/replacement, Heart transplantation and congenital cardiac anomaly repairs.
• Correction of Pediatric cardiac congenital anomalies include definitive surgeries such as arterial switch, VSD repair, ASD repair, AVSD correction, PDA, SAMR, TOF correction, Rastelli procedure, Fontan procedure, DORV correction, RVOT correction, PA augmentations, palliative procedures such as PA banding, BT shunt, Glenn shunt and central shunt. Cardiac catheterization and non surgical repair procedures done in cathlab.
• Vascular surgeries include Fem-pop bypass, Amputation, AAArepair.
Nurse to patient ratio:
1 : 3 during day shifts
1 : 4 during night shifts
(staffing ratios depend on patient acuity)
Shifts are 12-hours in length and follow the American rotation. Overtime is available.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree or Associate’s degree or Diploma in Nursing, and
- Current nursing license in Canada or the United States, and
- A minimum of two years current experience as a Registered Nurse, of which at least one must be in the specialty area, working in a mid- to large-sized acute-care hospital in North America.
Benefits:
- Tax-free income
- Single-status contract
- Accommodations provided
- Relocation allowance
- More than 7 calendar weeks of vacation
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