**Overview** As our Cardiac Stepdown Nurse at CHI St Vincent Infirmary, you’ll care for patients who may have life-threatening cardiac events, post-procedural and receive patients from the Cath Lab PACU while helping their families navigate daily care and the long-term plan for healing and maintenance outside of the hospital. You’ll never have the same day twice as your patients’ needs evolve. That’s why you must be adaptable, detail-oriented, and have great time management skills while observing vitals and reporting the warning signs early to our multidisciplinary team of cardiologists, EKG techs, and other cardiovascular professionals. Your success in this role comes from your enthusiasm to go the extra mile for your patients, utilization of critical thinking skills and your strong assessment skills. To further support your nursing career, we offer continuing education opportunities to help you advance your clinical nursing skills. **About Us:** **CHI St Vincent Infirmary** is a 600 bed faith-based, non-profit, acute care facility providing quality health care to patients and communities from all over the State of Arkansas. Our level II trauma center is a regional referral center for cardiology, trauma, behavioral health, cancer care, neurosciences, and other specialties. We have been consistently named by US News & World Report as one of the State’s best hospitals, with high performance in heart care, colorectal surgery, and joint replacement. If you are committed to social justice, health equity, and prepared to deliver care in new, innovative ways, you belong with us. **Responsibilities** + Provides assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care for assigned patients. + Administer medications, change therapeutic dressings, monitor vital signs, prep patients for procedural interventions, educate both patient and families regarding the disease process and procedural intervention, and chart with timely documentation + Collaborate with a variety of other healthcare professionals such as social work, care coordination, physical therapy, occupational therapy, lab, respiratory therapy, and imaging + Utilization of multiple Nurse Driven protocols allowing some autonomy for the prudent nurse + Evaluation and implementation of the treatment plan for the heart failure patient population **We are offering a** **_sign on bonus up to $25,000_** **to hires who meet the eligibility requirements. We also offer additional pay for participation in our clinical ladder as well as referral bonuses, excellent benefits, tuition reimbursement and relocation assistance.** **Qualifications** + Unencumbered license to practice in the State of Arkansas + 6 months of acute care experience is required (new graduates or nurses who have never worked in an acute care setting are hired through our residency training program) + Previous cardiac experience preferred, but not required + BLS and ACLS through the American Heart Association is required While you’re busy impacting the healthcare industry, we’ll take care of you with benefits that include health/dental/vision, FSA, matching retirement plans, paid vacation, adoption assistance, and more! **Pay Range** $31.65 - $42.73 /hour We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.