Cardiac Telemetry Nurse
About The Position
As our Cardiac Telemetry Nurse at CHI St Vincent Infirmary, you'll care for patients who may have life-threatening cardiac events, post-procedural and receive patients from the Cath Lab PACU while helping their families navigate daily care and the long-term plan for healing and maintenance outside of the hospital. You'll never have the same day twice as your patients' needs evolve. That's why you must be adaptable and detail-oriented, observing vitals and reporting the warning signs early to our multidisciplinary team of cardiologists, EKG techs, and other cardiovascular professionals. Your success in this role comes from your enthusiasm to go the extra mile for your patients, utilization of critical thinking skills and your strong assessment skills. To further support your nursing career, we offer continuing education opportunities to help you advance your clinical nursing skills.
Requirements
- Unencumbered license to practice in the State of Arkansas
- 6 months of acute care experience is required (new graduates or nurses who have never worked in an acute care setting are hired through our residency training program)
- BLS through the American Heart Association is required
- Additional certifications (like ACLS or PALS) may be required depending on the unit
Nice To Haves
- Previous cardiac experience preferred, but not required
Responsibilities
- Provides assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care for assigned patients.
- Administer medications, change therapeutic dressings, monitor vital signs, prep patients for procedural interventions, educate both patient and families regarding the disease process and procedural intervention, and chart with timely documentation
- Collaborate with a variety of other healthcare professionals such as social work, care coordination, physical therapy, occupational therapy, lab, respiratory therapy, and imaging
- Utilization of multiple Nurse Driven protocols allowing some autonomy for the prudent nurse
- Evaluation and implementation of the treatment plan for the heart failure patient population
Benefits
- health/dental/vision
- FSA
- matching retirement plans
- paid vacation
- adoption assistance
- clinical ladder
- referral bonuses
- excellent benefits
- tuition reimbursement
- relocation assistance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
