Description
Cardiac Nurse Careers
The Heart and Vascular Center
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
Cardiac Nurses at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center join an interdisciplinary, highly collaborative cardiovascular team delivering advanced care in a new, state-of-the-art Heart & Vascular Unit (HVU) and Cardiac Critical Care environment.
The cardiac nurses of the Heart & Vascular Center at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center provide expert, coordinated care for diseases of the heart and blood vessels, including abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, aortic valve surgery, heart attack, heart bypass surgery, and heart failure.
About the Unit
The Heart & Vascular Unit is a 48-bed, acuity-adaptable progressive care and telemetry medical/surgical cardiac unit, located in our new patient pavilion. The unit is organized into three 16-bed wings, each featuring private patient rooms and advanced clinical technology. One wing is dedicated exclusively to progressive cardiac care.
Unit Features & Technology
- All private, state-of-the-art patient rooms
- Acuity-adaptable care models (high acuity, step-down, progressive, and telemetry)
- Digital communication screens and interactive nurse call systems
- Bedside patient iPads and telehealth connectivity for added nursing support
- Advanced invasive monitoring, including arterial catheter monitoring
- Management of advanced heart failure and pulmonary hypertension
- Utilization of low-dose pressor therapy
- Dedicated staff amenities including new lounges, lockers, and respite rooms on every floor
Supportive Team & Leadership
This is a well-established, well-led unit with a strong team culture and exceptional retention. Our motto is simple and lived every day: “nobody sits until we all sit”. Retention tells the story, with zero turnover in 2024, 33 new nurses hired in 2025, and strong success converting travel nurses into long-term team members. Leadership emphasizes collaboration, shared responsibility, and mutual support. Dedicated charge nurses and resource nurses are present on the unit, with flexible support to meet patient and staff needs.
We are currently expanding from 48 to 64 beds, offering new opportunities for professional growth within a modern, innovative care environment.
Professional Development
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center supports nurses at all stages of their careers. A Heart & Vascular–specific orientation program is provided to ensure nurses build the skills and confidence needed to succeed in both progressive and critical care cardiac settings.
These are just a few highlights of being an cardiac nurse at Dartmouth Health in New Hampshire.
- We have loan repayment up to $20,000
- We offer Relocation Assistance and a Housing Coordinator to take on the burden of finding a home.
- We have competitive nursing rates
- We offer generous tuition reimbursement
- We have a very popular "earned time" plan
- We have extensive CEU/Training programs
- We offer a rigorous, research-focused environment
Why are we so unique? We are a nationally recognized health system in the middle of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. We understand that “quality of life” means different things to different people, but we are 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 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 is a line at the chair lift on the ski mountain.
To learn more about our Cardiac Nursing Careers, please visit our career center at:
https://dhnursing.org/heart-vascular-center/
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.
