RN III Cath Lab
About The Position
As a Registered Nurse, you will deliver compassionate, high-quality, individualized care to support patients’ well-being and recovery. The role involves making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, implementing patient care plans, and collaborating with an interdisciplinary team to achieve optimal patient outcomes. Success requires strong assessment skills, critical thinking, a patient-first mindset, urgency, and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment. The position also includes responsibilities for identifying and reporting patient abuse or neglect; documenting education about advance directives and coordinating efforts to obtain copies for the patient’s chart; advocating for patients and supporting informed healthcare decisions; formulating and prioritizing nursing diagnoses and patient problem lists; correctly withdrawing, labeling, and processing blood specimens; and providing care, maintenance, and discontinuation of central lines.
Requirements
- Minimum of 3 years of recent experience in a critical care unit, emergency room department, or interventional cardiac radiology catheterization laboratory; coronary care or post-cardiac surgery experience is preferred.
- California Registered Nurse (CA RN) license upon hire.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) upon hire.
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) upon hire.
Nice To Haves
- Critical care experience in coronary care or post-cardiac surgery.
Responsibilities
- Assess patients and formulate and prioritize nursing diagnoses and patient problem lists within expected time frames.
- Identify and report patient abuse or neglect, and implement applicable department policies and procedures.
- Document advance-directive education, coordinate obtaining copies of advance directives for the chart, and refer questions to Chaplain Services.
- Act as a patient advocate and support the patient’s opportunity to make informed healthcare decisions.
- Identify patients correctly and use aseptic technique to withdraw, label, and process blood specimens.
- Provide care and maintenance of central lines and discontinue them using correct technique.
- Deliver individualized care, perform skilled procedures, implement patient care plans, and collaborate with the interdisciplinary team.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
