Per Diem Registered Nurse-Cardiac Cath Lab

Kaweah Delta Health Care District•Visalia, CA

About The Position

The Registered Nurse in the Cardiac Cath Lab protects and promotes health, prevents illness and injury, and alleviates suffering through nursing diagnosis and treatment. The nurse demonstrates professional leadership by overseeing the interdisciplinary healthcare team, providing holistic care, and advocating for patients and families. The role includes direct patient care and, when serving as team leader, clinical guidance, staff and patient-flow coordination, and support for unit operations. The position serves patients and families with varied cultural, linguistic, spiritual, gender, and age-specific needs.

Requirements

California Registered Nurse (RN) license.
BLS certification.
ACLS certification within one year of hire or transfer.

Nice To Haves

BSN, MSN, or current enrollment in an RN-to-BSN program.

Responsibilities

Practice in accordance with the nursing Code of Ethics and demonstrate professional, respectful behavior consistent with organizational values.
Identify high-risk patients and initiate appropriate interventions, including referrals to ancillary departments.
Maintain patient confidentiality, advocate for patients, and support their autonomy, dignity, rights, and ability to advocate for themselves.
Use the nursing process, including assessment, diagnosis, planning, outcome identification, implementation, and evaluation.
Collect clinical data and use quality-improvement findings to improve nursing practice and patient outcomes.
Help develop and implement policies, procedures, and practice guidelines; participate in interdisciplinary teams, quality-improvement studies, task forces, or committees; and share findings from studies and audits.
Collaborate and communicate with patients, families, and healthcare providers; formulate care plans with patients and make referrals that support continuity of care.
As team leader, serve as a clinical resource, role model, mentor, and Nurse Manager Representative when the Nurse Manager is absent.
Support staff through problem-solving and decision-making, assist preceptors and new employees during orientation, provide input on employee evaluations, and help orient float staff.
Manage staff and patient flow by adjusting assignments, coordinating admissions and transfers, ensuring timely shift reports and adequate break coverage, and communicating next-shift staffing needs.
Assign staff to complete equipment checks, including PCX controls, crash carts, refrigerator temperatures, red books, and narcotic counts.
Coordinate care during high-risk or emergent situations and keep appropriate nursing leaders informed of critical patients and unit issues.
Promote collaboration among staff, physicians, providers, and departments; ensure patient-care issues are documented and reported; and follow the appropriate chain of command.
Guide employees and alert the Nurse Manager to counseling needs.
Provide patient care as needed and make fiscally responsible decisions about staffing and patient supplies.
Provide care appropriate to the population served and account for patients’ and families’ cultural, linguistic, spiritual, gender, developmental, and age-specific needs.
Perform other duties as assigned.