Medical/Surgical Inpatient Nurse Careers
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center | Lebanon, NH
Are you a passionate RN looking to make a real impact in patient care while building a sustainable, rewarding career? Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center has exciting opportunities for Registered Nurses on our medical-surgical inpatient units. Whether you are a new graduate, an experienced inpatient nurse, or someone ready for more engaging clinical work and a better schedule, you will find a place to grow here.
A Schedule That Supports Your Life
Medical Specialties on L1WC is a 53-bed inpatient medicine unit spanning two floors, where nurses work three 12-hour shifts each week. This schedule offers more full days off, greater flexibility, and more time to recharge, travel, or spend time with family and friends. It is a structure that supports work-life balance while keeping your skills sharp and your career moving forward.
Challenging, Meaningful Nursing Work
This unit cares for medically complex adult patients in a fast-paced, hands-on environment where no two days are the same. Nurses build confidence, sharpen clinical judgment, and expand their scope of practice every shift while caring for patients with conditions such as kidney and liver failure, sepsis, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, cardiac and respiratory illness, complex infections, and post-operative complications. The work is dynamic, collaborative, and deeply meaningful.
Why Nurses Choose Medical Specialties
Nurses across experience levels thrive here because this unit combines strong support with real clinical depth. You will gain valuable inpatient Med/Surg experience while developing skills that open doors to future opportunities across the hospital.
In this role, you will:
Comprehensive Training and Team-Based Support
You will never be expected to figure things out on your own. Every nurse is paired with a dedicated preceptor throughout orientation to ensure a confident and supported transition. This is a unit that welcomes learners, values questions, and embraces collaboration and shared problem solving.
Nurses partner daily with Hospital Medicine physicians and teams such as Respiratory Care, Wound Care, Vascular Access, Infectious Disease, Nephrology, Cardiology, Gastroenterology, and Endocrinology. You will gain exposure to advanced technologies and care modalities, including dialysis, high-flow oxygen, tracheostomies, chest tubes, and medication drips such as insulin and heparin.
A Unit and Organization That Invest in You
Medical Specialties is a place where nurses grow. The team values adaptability, curiosity, and continuous improvement, and believes everyone plays a role in delivering excellent care. Nurses who succeed here are compassionate, flexible, and eager to expand their skills in a supportive, high-performing environment.
Dartmouth Health supports your career with:
About Dartmouth Health
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center is a nationally recognized academic medical center located in the Upper Valley of New Hampshire, near the White Mountains. Here, quality of life comes in many forms, from rural and suburban housing options to top-rated schools, hundreds of lakes, miles of hiking trails, and some of the best skiing in the country. Our idea of traffic is a short line at the ski lift.
As part of Dartmouth Health, an integrated, award-winning health system across New Hampshire and Vermont, you will find the opportunity, training, and support to thrive at every stage of your nursing career.
Take the Next Step
If you are ready for a better schedule, engaging inpatient nursing work, and a team that truly supports your growth, Medical Specialties at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center could be the right fit.
How can the lifestyle in New Hampshire and Vermont compliment your career? You can have amazing 4-season living with a career at one of the top health systems in the country. The Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system stretches over New Hampshire and Vermont and offers the quintessential New England experience. With no income or sales tax, this beautiful area combines history, industry and business and has been ranked consistently as one of the best places in the US to live and work. Anchored by the academic Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, the system includes the NCI-designated Norris Cotton Cancer Center, the Children's Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock; 4 affiliated hospitals and 30 Dartmouth-Hitchcock ambulatory clinics across the region. We are close to the urban centers of Boston, New York and Montreal, but also offer proximity to the seacoast and multiple top-tier ski mountains within a short driving distance. Throughout New Hampshire, the opportunities – both career and personal – truly make our area the ideal place to work and play.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
