Critical Care Nurse

As a Critical Care Nurse, you will care for patients with complex conditions in variety of critical care settings. If you thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, then joining our critical care nurse team is the right fit for you.

Why Saint Alphonsus?

• Saint Alphonsus Health System was ranked in the top 15 health systems in the United States.
• We are nonprofit, faith-based health system.
• Our Regional Medical Center (Boise) is recognized as the region's only Level II Trauma Center, Level I Stroke Center and Level III NICU providing the most experienced care to the most critically ill patients.
• With over 75 diverse services and specialties, we continue to maintain our Centers of Excellence in: Cardiovascular, Neuroscience, Oncology, Orthopedics, Trauma & Emergency and Women's & Children's.

Overview of Critical Care Units

Boise, Idaho

• Intensive Care Unit (ICU): Includes 21 beds dedicated to providing specialized care, close monitoring, and life support for adult patients with a wide range of complex medical conditions. The primary admitting service is pulmonary critical care. Specialty device training includes Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) and Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO).
• Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU): Includes 10 beds focused on caring for patients with complex cardiac conditions. The patient population includes individuals recovering from minimally invasive cardiac procedures, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), cardiogenic shock, and other post-cardiac catheterization procedures.
• Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU): Includes 10 beds dedicated to caring for patients recovering from cardiac surgical interventions. Procedures include coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), aneurysm repair, aortic root replacement, aortic valve replacement, MAZE procedures, aortic dissection repair, mitral valve repair or replacement, and transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR).
• Neuro, Surgical, Trauma ICU: This state-of-the-art unit includes 18 beds dedicated to caring for patients with neurological, surgical, and traumatic injuries or illnesses requiring intensive-level care. Patients may include those recovering from multi-trauma injuries following motor vehicle accidents, spinal cord injuries, spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhages, new-onset undiagnosed seizures, and acute strokes. This unit is the first of its kind in Idaho.
  • Tour Idaho's First and Only Neuro, Surgical, Trauma Unit
• Critical Care Float Pool: Coverage to all the units above as well as the Emergency Department

Nampa, Idaho

• Intensive Care Unit (ICU): Includes 18 beds, patients with respiratory, cath lab, medical

Ontario, Oregon

• Intensive Care Unit (ICU): Includes 6 beds, patients with general high acuity

Baker City, Oregon

• Intensive Care Unit (ICU): Includes two beds, patients with DKA, Peds, COPD, respiratory, overdoses

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