Registered Nurse - Cardiac Cath Lab, Full-Time
About The Position
NYU Langone Hospital—Long Island is a 591-bed university-affiliated medical center offering sophisticated diagnostic and therapeutic care across numerous medical and surgical specialties. As a major regional healthcare resource, it is deeply committed to medical education and research, providing a comprehensive range of inpatient and outpatient services. NYU Langone Health prioritizes equity and inclusion, fostering an environment where talented faculty, staff, and students of all identities can thrive by embracing individual skills, ideas, and knowledge. This role involves carrying out patient care responsibilities with a focus on decision-making within the nursing process, including assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation. The Registered Nurse provides competent, safe, and compassionate care aligned with established NYU WUH Patient Care and Nursing Standards. As part of the interdisciplinary healthcare team, the nurse collaborates with providers to formulate and implement a comprehensive, patient-centered plan of care to achieve expected outcomes, utilizing principles of assignment and delegation in accordance with the NY State Nurse Practice Act.
Requirements
- Bachelors degree in Nursing from an accredited institution required for employees hired after 9/1/2020 (those who hired prior to 9/1/2020 are grandfathered).
- Current Registered Professional Nurse in New York.
- BLS through the American Heart Association.
- Fluent written and spoken English language skills.
- Qualified candidates must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.
Responsibilities
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Collects, assesses, and documents patient healthcare data. Directs the patient/family and interdisciplinary team to identify a plan of care and outcomes that are realistic and measurable. Prioritizes care based upon data collected. Documents assessment and reassessment in medical records.
- Directs the coordination of patient care in a safe, timely, and appropriate manner. Applies and supports the escalation process. Considers needs and behaviors of specific patient age groups and cultural groups in all patient care activities. Documents interventions per hospital standard.
- Educates the patient/family regarding health status and established plan of care. Determines learning needs of the patient/family. Implements an educational plan. Collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to modify expected outcomes. Documents learning outcomes of patient/family; evaluates and revises education plan (Include utilization of EHR education tools).
- Evaluates the patient's progress towards expected outcomes. Involves the patient/family and interdisciplinary team in the evaluation process. Recognizes changes in patient condition and responds to variations in patient's progress by modifying the interventions. Reports, documents, and evaluates the effectiveness of the intervention(s).
- Coordinates and directs unit activities to provide patient care in a healing, humane, and caring environment.
- Analyzes achievement of and contributes to unit throughput efficiencies and metrics (Include unit throughput measures e.g. DBN, door to triage, assign to occupy, first case starts, room turnover).
- Complies with unit-based and organizational professional standards, New York State Nurse Practice Act, and regulations of relevant outside agencies (e.g., NY State Department of Health, The Joint Commission, regulatory requirements etc.).
- Organizes staff assignments to ensure appropriate delegation of activities. Demonstrates ability to differentiate those activities which are in scope of professional nursing practice, and those that may be delegated to ancillary staff.
- Complies with annual education and mandatory/regulatory requirements (Include learning transcript and supportive documentation).
- Serves as a support, resource, and preceptor for nursing staff and students.
- Engages in self-assessment and peer review; utilizes resources to meet individual learning needs and promote professional development in clinical practice.
- Adheres to patient care and nursing standards in care delivery, and uses clinical practice guidelines (CPG). Participates in standard development and practice evaluation.
- Contributes to and utilizes the unit practice council (UPC) structure to critically appraise and influence practice (Include supportive evidence).
- Analyzes unit-level quality data and participates in improvement efforts to achieve organizational goals within the quality and safety performance improvement plan (QSPIP), and outperform benchmarks in nurse-sensitive quality indicators (Include unit-based quality measures e.g. HAPU, CAUTI, CLABSI, Falls).
Benefits
- Financial security benefits
- Generous time-off program
- Employee resource groups for peer support
- Holistic employee wellness program focusing on seven key areas of well-being: physical, mental, nutritional, sleep, social, financial, and preventive care.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
