**Job Type:** Regular **Time Type:** Full time **Work Shift:** Day (United States of America) **FLSA Status:** Exempt **When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.** The CardioVascular Institute operating rooms focus exclusively on caring for patients undergoing highly complex cardiac, vascular or endovascular and thoracic surgery procedures. Located on the BIDMC West Campus, the program spans two cutting-edge facilities. Cardiac surgery, including heart transplantation and robotic thoracic surgery, is performed in the Klarman Building, which opened in 2023. The building is designed to accommodate the latest diagnostic, hybrid, and surgical procedures, with patient care spaces developed in collaboration with front-line staff. Vascular and endovascular surgery takes place in the Rosenberg Building, featuring an open vascular room, state-of-the-art endovascular suites, robotic thoracic ORs, and an interventional pulmonology program. For some complex aortic aneurysm repair procedures, the OR uses a real-time 3D visualization system for enhanced guidance, which reduces radiation exposure for both patients and staff. This technology supports a robust endovascular aneurysm repair program, including TEVAR, EVAR, and PMEG. Our commitment to exceptional patient care has positioned BIDMC as a leader in healthcare quality, safety, and transparency. Our team consistently receives top scores from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons for isolated coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery, isolated aortic valve replacement (AVR), and combined AVR and CABG surgeries. Additionally, we are recognized as a Carotid Care Quality Champion Center by the Society for Vascular Surgery Vascular Quality Initiative. Our nurses are highly regarded for the superb care and compassion they provide every patient. **Job Description:** **Essential Responsibilities:** 1. Coordinates the allocation of resources; acts as a clinical resource for staff; supports the nursing division by participating in performance reviews, initiating and contributing to quality improvement initiatives and standard development. 2. Assess patient and their family issues, level of acuity, staff and physician concerns and take appropriate action. Update nursing staff, delegate duties and ensures follow through to address patient issues. 3. Provides clinical consultation to nursing staff or directs them to other resources. 4. Communicates and interprets changes in nursing practice activities and standards of care. 5. Identifies self learning needs and updates clinical knowledge and skills through formal and informal education and review of current literature. 6. Participates in and supports nursing research by utilizing current research findings in clinical and administrative practice **Required Qualifications:** 1. Bachelor's degree in Nursing required. 2. License Registered Nurse required., and Certificate 1 Basic Life Support required. 3. 3-5 years related work experience required. 4. Demonstrated leadership through progressively responsible nursing assignments. 5. Experience with computer systems required, including web based applications and some Microsoft Office applications which may include Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Access. **Preferred Qualifications:** 1. Experience in a teaching hospital and specialty area expertise. **Competencies:** 1. **Decision Making:** Ability to make decisions that are guided by precedents, policies and objectives. Regularly makes decisions and recommendations on issues affecting a department or functional area. 2. **Problem Solving:** Ability to address problems that are highly varied, complex and often non-recurring, requiring staff input, innovative, creative, and Lean diagnostic techniques to resolve issues. 3. **Independence of Action:** Ability to set goals and determines how to accomplish defined results with some guidelines. Manager/Director provides broad guidance and overall direction. 4. **Written Communications:** Ability to summarize and communicate in English moderately complex information in varied written formats to internal and external customers. 5. **Oral Communications:** Ability to comprehend and communicate complex verbal information in English to medical center staff, patients, families and external customers. 6. **Knowledge:** Ability to demonstrate in-depth knowledge of concepts, practices and policies with the ability to use them in complex varied situations. 7. **Team Work:** Ability to act as a team leader for small projects or work groups, creating a collaborative and respectful team environment and improving workflows. Results may impact the operations of one or more departments. 8. **Customer Service:** Ability to provide a high level of customer service and staff training to meet customer service standards and expectations for the assigned unit(s). Resolves service issues in the assigned unit(s) in a timely and respectful manner. **Age based Competencies:** Employees in this job must be competent to provide patient care to the following age groups: Neonatal:Birth to 6 months, Youth: 6 months to 16 years, Young adult: 16-30 years, Middle Age: 30 - 60 years, Elderly: 60 -. **Physical Nature of the Job:** Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and or up to 20 pounds of force frequently. Job is physical in nature and employee needs to stand and/or move around through the majority of their shift. **As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) and COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Learn more (https://www.bilh.org/newsroom/bilh-to-require-covid-19-influenza-vaccines-for-all-clinicians-staff-by-oct-31) about this requirement.** **More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger.** **Equal Opportunity** **Employer/Veterans/Disabled**