Nursing Specializations

Whatever your specialty Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital has a career for you. Here’s a brief overview of our units and the services they provide:

Fifth Floor

With 42 beds in total, Fifth floor west delivers services to primarily orthopaedic and neurological patients and thus relies heavily on those nursing specialties. Fifth floor east provides general medical and surgical patients. This unit provides a great foundation for new grads and for experienced nurses offers the comfort and support of a unit filled with highly skilled professionals.

Fourth Floor

Our fourth floor is dedicated to birthing with Family Birthplace, providing labor, deliver, recovery and post partum services.It is a comprehensive center that offers care for both low and high risk pregnancies. Memorial is the only hospital in Yakima offering birthing services with approximately 3,000 deliveries each year. While experience is preferred, new grads are still encouraged to apply.

Third Floor

Women’s Urology on our Third Floor is a highly dynamic unit focusing on women’s health. This unit is is staffed by a highly supportive team dedicated to patient care. While experience is preferred, new grads are still encouraged to apply.

Also on our third floor are our Neonatal Intensive Care and Pediatric Units ( 3N & 3NW). Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital is the primary hospital in the region offering pediatric inpatient services. While experience is preferred, new grads are still encouraged to apply.

Second Floor
2E/Wis a joint unit caring for general medical and oncology patients. 2 East is a 15 bed Oncology specializing in the administration of chemo therapy, symptom management and end of life care. 2 West is a 19 bed general medical unit with most patients in this unit being geriatric. These units offer strong team nursing support and provide a great foundation for new grads.

Also located on second floor ACU, CCU and 2 South. ACU is a 20-bed telemetry and advanced care unit especially focused on cardiac care, and other more acute medical conditions that are not primarily cardiac. CCU is an 11-bed critical care unit that cares for medical, surgical, cardiac, trauma, neuro and pediatric patients. 2 South is a small overflow area which normally has telemetry patients, but may have some med/surg patients depending on the need in house. Experience preferred. New grads are also encouraged to apply. Training into the CCU is optional when determined appropriate by the staff member and management.

Float Pool
The Float Pool provides coverage to multiple units including Medical Surgical, Ortho/Neuro, Oncology and Telemetry Units. Nurses in the Float are clinically competent to float to many areas in the acute care setting and may float to more than one are during any one shift. Our float pool nurses are highly skilled and experienced, demonstrating competencies in multiple departments while being highly adaptable to changing priorities. Experience is preferred, however, new grads are also encouraged to apply.