Proximity Healthcare is hiring CICU/ CVICU (cardiovascular intensive care unit) nurses for agency work in Manchester. Get in touch with our amazing team for 5-star job-hunting help, completely free of charge to nurses. Our healthcare facility partners cover all employment costs. Plus, we have over 30 years of experience specialising in nurse and HCA (healthcare assistant) recruitment, making us experts at the healthcare hiring game.
Our consultants are ready to negotiate for your preferred salary and working hours on your behalf. We’re there for our nurses, from registration to their very last agency work shift.
Why CICU nurses?
Around 26,000 people in the UK die from CHD (coronary heart disease) each year. That’s 1 in 8 men and 1 in 14 women. New data for England shows that more than 84,000 patients were admitted to hospital because of a heart attack in 2021-22, an increase of more than 7,000 in a year, according to The Independent.
The UK’s steeply rising rate of tobacco use and ageing population means that heart disease, stroke, and heart attacks necessitate more CICU nurses. The world is also amid a global nursing shortage, further fuelling the demand for cardiovascular ICU nurses.
Critical care experience is essential for CVICU nursing. In addition, CVICU nurses need soft skills like empathy, kindness, compassion, and the ability to communicate well with other healthcare professionals and families.
A Reddit nurse said: “I have been a CVICU bedside nurse for going on 12 years now. It has been a passion and I truly do enjoy it. I have seen my unit grow from a small surgical program to now a larger program that also treats end starve heart failure, ECMO, we do transports and transplants. CVICU is intense but extremely awesome. You get really intimate with the anatomy of the heart and cardiovascular/thoraic medicine. It’s also a great stepping stone to being a CRNA.”
If you would like to become a CVICU/ cardiovascular ICU nurse, contact Proximity Healthcare. We would love to be of assistance.