Experienced Registered Nurse, Vascular Access, Per Diem
About The Position
The Vascular Access Registered Nurse provides specialized vascular access consultation and services throughout Lahey Clinic, supporting patients across inpatient and outpatient settings. The role assesses patients, recommends appropriate vascular access devices, and performs insertion, maintenance, monitoring, and troubleshooting of vascular access lines. The RN collaborates with physicians, advanced practice providers, and nursing colleagues to deliver safe, evidence-based care and optimize patient outcomes. The position floats throughout the hospital and ambulatory areas and provides expertise in peripheral IV insertion, ultrasound-guided vascular access, central line monitoring, dressing changes, and advanced line placement. The role calls for a nurse who is passionate about vascular access, comfortable working autonomously in a consultative role, and eager to develop advanced vascular access skills. The RN provides organized, safe, quality care; develops culturally competent plans of care; assesses patients and families; delivers age-specific care; evaluates outcomes and adapts plans as needed; and builds effective professional relationships with patients, families, and colleagues. The role includes educating patients, families, nursing staff, and medical staff; supporting colleagues’ development; following clinical, ethical, regulatory, and organizational standards; documenting care in the electronic medical record; and participating in quality improvement and mandatory education.
Requirements
- Graduate of a state-approved and/or accredited School of Nursing.
- Current license to practice professional nursing from the Massachusetts Board of Registration.
- BLS certification from the American Heart Association.
- Demonstrated clinical skills and technical knowledge to provide care according to Nursing Policies and Procedures and unit-specific competencies.
- Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.
- A minimum of two years of related experience in a hospital or procedural setting is strongly preferred.
Nice To Haves
- A minimum of two years of related experience in a hospital or procedural setting.
Responsibilities
- Provide vascular access consultation for inpatient and outpatient populations throughout Lahey Clinic.
- Assess patients and recommend vascular access devices based on clinical needs and treatment plans.
- Insert and manage peripheral intravenous catheters, ultrasound-guided PIVs, midlines, PICCs, and intraosseous devices.
- Perform vascular access procedures using evidence-based practices and current clinical standards.
- Monitor, maintain, troubleshoot, and perform dressing changes on vascular access devices.
- Manage ports, tunneled and non-tunneled central venous catheters, dialysis catheters, PICCs, CICCs, Cordis, Introducers, Swan-Ganz catheters, and other vascular access devices as required.
- Educate nursing and medical staff about device selection, maintenance, complication prevention, and best practices.
- Accurately document procedures and patient care in the electronic medical record.
- Provide safe, coordinated, quality care and develop culturally competent plans of care that identify patient problems, expected outcomes, and preventative measures.
- Assess patients and families systematically, provide age-specific care, evaluate care effectiveness, and adapt plans based on patient and family responses.
- Establish professional relationships with patients, families, nurses, physicians, and other colleagues, incorporating patients’ beliefs and partnering with patients and families in care.
- Educate patients and families about illness, treatment, and appropriate preventative measures.
- Support colleagues’ development, serve as a responsive team member and nurse educator, and fulfill regulatory compliance and readiness responsibilities.
- Adhere to unit policies, procedures, practice guidelines, and the ANA Code of Ethics; uphold nursing quality standards and evidence-based practice.
- Participate in quality improvement activities and complete mandatory education.
- Incorporate Lahey Clinic guiding principles, mission, and goals into daily work; comply with policies, behavioral expectations, and customer service standards.
- Perform other duties as needed or directed to meet departmental needs.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Mid Level
