Neuroscience Nursing
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
One Medical Center Drive
Lebanon, NH 03756
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center offers three (3) levels of Neuroscience Nursing providing care to patients experiencing acute neurological injuries, disorders, and neurosurgeries. Each unit trains our nurses to provide specialty care allowing them to grow as nurses and advance their clinical skills. Dartmouth Health neuro nurses work across the continuum collaboratively with our Stroke Program to maintain our status as a Comprehensive Stroke Center, receiving annual education and training to care for the sickest stroke patients. Our Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU) provides the highest level of monitoring for patients with seizures and epilepsy, including scalp and intracranial electrodes, and post-op care following epilepsy surgery. EMU nurses gain additional subspecialty education, and those with a deeper interest can participate in the AANN Certificate Program for the Seizure and Epilepsy Professional. We encourage our nurses to become ABNN certified as CNRN or SCRN and obtain Emergency Neurological Life Support (ENLS).
Living and working in beautiful New England
The Dartmouth Health system stretches over New Hampshire and Vermont and offers the quintessential New England experience. With no income or sales tax, this beautiful area has been ranked consistently as one of the best places in the US to live and work. With destinations like Boston, New York, the seacoast, and ski country within driving distance, the opportunities – both career and personal – truly make New Hampshire the ideal place to work and play.
Hear from some of our amazing neuro nurses in their own words:
I enjoy working as a nurse in the Neuro ICU because it provides me with a diversity of experiences that expand my nursing skills. I am able to collaborate with a great team of professionals, and together we meet the complex needs of these patients and their families.
Time is brain; I love working in Dartmouth’s Neuro ICU because our doctors and nurses work in sync to not only save your life, but to save who you are.
Within the clinic setting, nurses are integral members of the care team working to help patients on their healthcare journey. The clinic setting is unique in that some days I am triaging and making phone calls, and others I am assisting with face to face care at the ALS clinic. Every day is different, but always with the same goal of maintaining work life balance, and doing what is best for our patients.