Registered Nurse (RN) - Cardiovascular Specialty
About The Position
Promotes and restores patients' health by collaborating with cardiovascular specialty physicians and multidisciplinary team members, providing physical and psychological support to patients and their families in structural heart, cardiovascular/cardiothoracic surgery, or electrophysiology sub-specialties. Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals, teaching patient, friends, and family to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills, and answering questions regarding highly complex healthcare topics. Assures quality of care by adhering to guideline driven practices, measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards, making or recommending necessary adjustments, and following nursing philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations. Throughout communities in Illinois and Wisconsin, 13 hospitals, numerous community-based health centers and clinics, our 13,000+ colleagues have built a culture based on our solid core values of respect, care, competence, and joy. These are the ideals we believe in, work by, and live each day. Built upon more than 145 years of service to the communities we serve, we now look to the future and our place in it as a health care system that strives to continually improve processes, procedures, and outcomes with the latest and most advanced technologies and treatments. Regardless of how far our passion for excellence carries us, our focus will always remain on the most important person in our entire organization: The patient.
Requirements
- Diploma or associates degree in nursing
- 2 years nursing experience
- 1 year critical care, specialty cardiac nursing, cath lab, or general cardiology practice
- Licensed as a Registered Nurse (RN) in the state of practice
- Basic Life Support (BLS)
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor’s degree in nursing
- Experience with complex duties involving Electrophysiology (EP) or device interrogation/interpretation/management, pulling chest tubes/packing wires, pacemaker or defibrillator checks, wound care experience
- Anti-arrhythmic pharmaceutical management experience
- Knowledge of electrophysiology or structural heart therapies: Watchman, TAVR, MitraClip; Extra vascular internal cardiac defibrillators; Atrioventricular micra wireless permanent pacemakers; EBR system wireless left ventricular lead placement
Responsibilities
- Collaborating with cardiovascular specialty physicians and multidisciplinary team members
- Providing physical and psychological support to patients and their families in structural heart, cardiovascular/cardiothoracic surgery, or electrophysiology sub-specialties
- Promoting patient's independence by establishing patient care goals
- Teaching patient, friends, and family to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills
- Answering questions regarding highly complex healthcare topics
- Assuring quality of care by adhering to guideline driven practices
- Measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards
- Making or recommending necessary adjustments
- Following nursing philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations
Benefits
- Comprehensive and affordable health coverage includes medical, prescription, dental and vision coverage for full-time and part-time colleagues
- Paid Time Off (PTO) combines vacation, sick, and personal days into one balance to allow you the flexibility to use your time off as you need
- Retirement benefits including HSHS contributions
- Education Assistance benefits include up to $5,250 of educational assistance each calendar year and tuition discounts to select colleges with no waiting period
- Adoption Assistance provides financial support up to $7,500 for colleagues growing their families through adoption to reimburse application and legal fees, transportation, and more!
- Wellness program with incentives
- Employer-paid life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage
- Flexible spending accounts
- Employee assistance program
- ID theft coverage
- Colleague rewards and recognition program
- Discount program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
