Registered Nurse - Cardiovascular Pre/Post -Optional
About The Position
The Registered Nurse in the Cardiovascular Pre/Post Unit at Bethesda North Hospital provides specialized nursing care for patients undergoing cardiac, vascular, electrophysiology, and structural heart procedures. As part of the Heart Hospital team, the nurse prepares patients for procedures and guides them safely through recovery in a fast-paced, specialized environment. The role includes comprehensive assessments, monitoring patients before and after procedures, managing access sites and recovery progression, educating patients and families, and coordinating care with cardiologists, advanced practice providers, cath lab staff, electrophysiology teams, and other interdisciplinary partners. The position offers an opportunity to develop cardiovascular nursing expertise and build relationships with patients throughout their care. The unit emphasizes exceptional, patient-centered care and a rewarding specialty practice that supports work-life balance. The nurse is also expected to contribute to professional development, collaboration, evidence-based practice, and TriHealth’s nursing culture and service standards.
Requirements
- Associate's degree in Nursing required.
- New hires are required to obtain a BSN within five years of hire.
- Registered Nurse credential required.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) required.
- Knowledge, judgment, and skills derived from biological, physical, behavioral, social, and nursing sciences to meet complex healthcare needs across stages of the life cycle.
Nice To Haves
- ACLS and PALS may be required depending on the unit or department.
Responsibilities
- Perform initial and ongoing assessments of patients and families, complete assessment tools, document findings, communicate them to appropriate providers, and identify health counseling and teaching needs.
- Plan, implement, and evaluate individualized patient care based on assessments, standards of care, patient input, and desired outcomes; update care plans and pathways as needed.
- Develop short- and long-term goals with patients, families, and the healthcare team, including discharge planning, and communicate the plan of care to others.
- Safely perform technical skills, administer medications and treatments, monitor their effects, and use equipment appropriately.
- Provide a safe, therapeutic environment while protecting patient autonomy, dignity, and rights; act as a patient advocate and provide nonjudgmental, nondiscriminatory care sensitive to patient diversity.
- Apply ethical principles, seek resources to support ethical decisions, and prioritize workload according to patient and unit needs.
- Recognize emergencies, notify appropriate personnel, and begin emergency measures.
- Collaborate with patients, families, physicians, and other healthcare team members to revise plans of care as needed; supervise care delegated to other team members.
- Document patient and family responses to care, including teaching.
- Demonstrate organizational responsibilities, support organizational and unit changes, participate in committees, meetings, and councils, use the chain of command appropriately, and identify process-improvement opportunities.
- Identify areas for self-improvement through self-assessment and peer review; provide unit leadership as needed and requested.
- Build collegial relationships with physicians and other health team members and cooperate with instructors to facilitate student learning experiences.
- Follow TriHealth SERVE Standards and ALWAYS Behaviors, including demonstrating courtesy, respect, compassion, service recovery, quality and safety awareness, and stewardship of resources.
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What This Job Offers
Education Level
Associate degree
