Ambulatory Registered Nurse - Cardiac Rehab SVHC - PRN
About The Position
The staff nurse provides professional nursing care in cardiac rehabilitation, using strong communication and customer relations skills to assess, counsel, and educate patients about lifestyle modifications that reduce cardiovascular risk factors and improve quality of life. The nurse assesses patients’ physical responses to exercise and psychological responses to illness, develops individualized plans of care to support recovery after cardiovascular events, and provides supervised exercise training for peripheral artery disease. The role includes identifying learning needs and coaching patients toward behavioral change, as well as understanding billing and reimbursement for Phase 2 and Phase 3 rehabilitation and SET for PAD. Nursing care at Stormont Vail Health is guided by Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring and the theory of Shared Governance. This is a patient-facing, on-site position with no remote work capability. It has no supervisory or budget responsibility. The position is non-exempt and PRN, with 0 hours per week listed. Physical demands include extended standing and talking, frequent sitting, walking, and coordination tasks, and occasional lifting up to 50 pounds. The work environment may include occasional exposure to combative patients and infectious diseases.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) is preferred.
- Registered Nurse license through KSBN, or a multistate license permitting practice in Kansas.
- Basic Life Support certification; must be obtained within 90 days of hire. RQI, CPR, or ACLS certifications may be required in lieu of or in addition to BLS depending on the department.
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification; must be obtained within 90 days of hire.
- Demonstrate awareness and application of institutional safety requirements.
- Demonstrate awareness of legal issues in patient care and departmental functioning and manage situations to minimize risk to patients and the institution.
- Communicate effectively using verbal, non-verbal, and written methods.
- Understand the pathophysiology, treatment, and recovery process for outpatients recovering from coronary artery events, including CABG, PTCA, MI, valve repair, stable angina, heart failure, and intermittent claudication.
- Identify patient learning needs and provide behavioral-change coaching through goal setting, individual and group verbal instruction, written educational materials, and ongoing feedback.
Nice To Haves
- Experience working in cardiology.
Responsibilities
- Collect pertinent data and information relative to the patient, situation, or setting.
- Analyze assessment data to determine actual or potential problems and issues.
- Develop a collaborative plan encompassing strategies to achieve expected outcomes.
- Identify expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the patient or situation.
- Promote infection prevention through standard precautions, appropriate dressing changes and wound care, hand hygiene, and cleanliness of patient rooms and the department.
- Implement the plan through coordination of care and strategies that promote health and wellness.
- Evaluate progress toward attainment of goals and outcomes.
- Deliver caring professional nursing care, including creating caring relationships, taking uninterrupted moments with patients, and displaying unconditional acceptance and respect.
- Promote a mutually respectful environment that encourages exchange of ideas and supports professional relationships; integrate ethics into practice.
- Advocate for patients in all roles and settings.
- Apply diversity, equity, and inclusion principles by respecting others’ uniqueness, perspectives, backgrounds, and beliefs.
- Communicate effectively in all areas of professional practice.
- Mentor nurses new to their roles to support enculturation, orientation, competence, and emotional support.
- Support students in developing their knowledge, skills, and abilities.
- Pursue lifelong learning through critical thinking, self-reflection, and inquiry.
- Participate in and lead nursing practice process evolution within Stormont Vail Health’s professional practice model.
- Use appropriate resources to plan, provide, and sustain evidence-based nursing services that are safe, effective, financially responsible, and judicious.
- Comply with Stormont Vail Health policies, standards, mandatory training, and requirements.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
