Registered Nurse - Cath Lab - Full Time - Day - Horizon West

Orlando Health•Winter Garden, FL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse provides advanced patient care in a hospital or inpatient setting for patients with serious illnesses or injuries requiring timely, complex care, intensive interventions, and continuous nursing vigilance. The nurse assesses and monitors patients, adapts care to changing conditions, develops and evaluates individualized care plans, responds to emergencies, documents care, and collaborates with patients, families, medical staff, and interdisciplinary teams. The role also includes supporting team capability and nursing practice through precepting, mentoring, delegation, education, quality improvement, and professional development. For nurses trained and functioning as ECMO specialists, responsibilities include providing scheduled, unscheduled, and emergency extracorporeal life support; operating and monitoring ECMO equipment and circuits; administering ordered medications and blood products through the circuit; managing ECLS during transport; maintaining continuous coverage; and attending quarterly simulations. ECMO specialists work under unit leadership and in collaboration with intensivist, perfusion, and bedside teams.

Requirements

Graduate of an approved school of nursing.
At least 1 year of experience, unless approved by an AVP level or above.
Current State of Alabama RN license or valid eNLC multistate RN license.
Current BLS/Healthcare Provider certification.
Meet mandatory, developmental, and performance competency requirements for Baptist Health and the unit/department.

Responsibilities

Provide complex patient assessments, therapies, and high-intensity nursing interventions with continuous vigilance.
Use assessment information to anticipate and respond to rapidly changing patient conditions and take timely, evidence-based action.
Monitor and adjust specialized patient-care equipment and interpret and document electronic displays, including pressures and cardiac rhythms.
Respond to life-saving situations according to nursing standards and protocols.
Recognize serious changes in patient condition, notify a physician, or take planned emergency measures when a physician is not immediately available.
Develop and revise individualized plans of care and evaluate progress toward expected outcomes.
Advocate for patients and families and provide compassionate, therapeutic care.
Communicate and collaborate with medical staff and interdisciplinary teams to plan and manage care.
Coordinate care and delegate tasks according to patient needs and team members’ qualifications and capabilities.
Document assessments, education, medication administration, treatments, and patient safety in accordance with regulatory standards.
Serve as a preceptor, charge nurse, unit educator, and/or nurse clinician as applicable.
Support the hospital and nursing department’s goals and strategies and serve as a role model for staff.
Help transition and support new team members and students in collaboration with education and nursing leadership.
Participate in nursing practice and performance-improvement committees, peer review, mentoring, and coaching.
Attend staff development, department meetings, and nursing committee meetings; pursue continuing education and professional development.
Use supplies efficiently and maintain a clean, safe, and organized work area.
For trained ECMO specialists: perform scheduled, unscheduled, and emergency ECLS; operate ECMO equipment; monitor and optimize the ECMO circuit; administer ordered blood products and medications through the circuit; manage equipment connected to the circuit; support ECLS transport; and ensure continuous ECLS coverage.
For trained ECMO specialists: maintain ECMO/perfusion equipment and supplies, attend mandatory quarterly simulations, and provide critical nursing resource support to CVICU or other areas as directed.
Maintain regular, punctual attendance and comply with Baptist Health policies and procedures.
Perform other duties as assigned.