Details
Posted: 10-May-22
Location: Lebanon, New Hampshire
Type: Full Time
Categories:
General Nursing
Sector:
Hospital, Public and Private
Apheresis Procedure Nursing
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
The Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, part of Dartmouth Health is a Level-1 academic center in New Hampshire that offers exciting, acute care opportunities in a rigorous, academic-focused environment. Our staff are well educated and serve as central figures in the success and governance of our system. They love our beautiful medical center and the relaxed lifestyle that comes with living and working in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
Apheresis is a specialty involving several interdisciplinary teams including transfusion medicine, hematology/oncology, laboratory medicine, immunology, transplant medicine, neurology, and cardiology. Apheresis nurses manage various procedures including therapeutic plasma exchanges, red blood cell exchanges, LDL apheresis, extracorporeal photopheresis, peripheral blood stem cell collections, and CAR-T cell collections. Procedures are performed at a single academic hospital under the supervision of an on-site Transfusion Medicine physician. The apheresis program is predominantly an outpatient service with inpatient procedures performed when medically indicated. In addition to running the apheresis instruments, nursing tasks include patient education, vascular access evaluation and care, medication administration, reaction management, and coordination of care. Apheresis nurses undergo a rigorous on-site training process that includes a thorough education on principles of apheresis medicine, preparation and maintenance of apheresis machines, and reaction protocols. As an additional bonus, the nurses oversee the care of our healthy blood donors in the Blood Donor Program. These roles are Monday through Friday, with limited scheduled "on-call".
Minimum Qualifications:
- Graduate from an accredited Nursing Program is required.
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing (BSN) with 1 year of experience.
- Associate Degree (ADN) prepared nurses with 2 years of experience.
* All Associate Degree (ADN) prepared nurses must commit to completing a BSN or higher nursing degree within 10 years of their hire date.
Required Licensure/Certification Skills:
- Licensed Registered Nurse in New Hampshire required.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) Certificate required upon hire and as applicable, higher-level per unit certification requirements as stated on the grid attached to the AHA and Life Support Policy
- ACLS Certificate required upon hire in Endoscopy, Tele-ICU, Day Surgery Center at CGP (Manchester), Life Safety and Cardiology-Echocardiography
These are just a few highlights of being a nurse manager at Dartmouth Health in New Hampshire.
- Loan repayment up to $20,000
- 3 free months of housing to help get you settled
- Generous Relocation Assistance and a Housing Coordinator to take on the burden of finding a home.
- Competitive nursing rates
- Generous tuition reimbursement
- A very popular "earned time" plan
- Extensive CEU/Training programs
- Our 8,000 ft Patient Safety and Training Simulation Center is state-of-the-art
- Our nurses serve as central figures in the success of our system through our shared governance nursing model
- We offer a rigorous, research-focused environment
- Dartmouth Health’s Nursing Continuing Education Council is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center
Why are we so unique? We are a nationally recognized Academic Medical Center set in picturesque New Hampshire. We recognize that “quality of life” means different things to different people, but we are very confident you will love it here as we have beautiful, rural, and suburban housing options, world-class primary, secondary, and graduate schools, hundreds of lakes, thousands of miles of hiking trails and some of the best skiing in the country. This all means you can be a happy nurse with more quality time with friends, family, pets, or maybe just quiet hikes by yourself. Our idea of traffic in the “Upper Valley” of New Hampshire is a line on the ski mountain at the chair lift.
Applicants are encouraged to visit our career site to learn more and apply:
Please visit: https://dhnursing.org/job/clinical-nurse-ft-32-hours-apheresis-and-blood-donor-clinic/
Dartmouth Health is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.
