Registered Nurse Cath Lab PRN

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join HCA Houston Healthcare North Cypress, part of the nation's leading provider of healthcare services.

Benefits

HCA Houston Healthcare North Cypress offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career, and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay, including prescription drug and behavioral health coverage, telemedicine services, and free AirMed medical transportation
• Dental and vision benefits
• Life and disability coverage
• Flexible spending accounts
• Supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity)
• Auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance
• Fertility and family building benefits through Progyny
• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical, and financial wellbeing
• Family support, including adoption assistance, child and elder care resources, and consumer discounts
• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Retirement readiness and rollover services, and preferred banking partnerships
• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
• Colleague recognition program
• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage, and leaves of absence)

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

About the role

The RN in the Cardiac Cath Lab is responsible for performing either scrubbing duties, documentation of the procedure on the hemodynamic system, and circulating for diagnostic or interventional cardiology/radiology procedures. Responsibilities also include assessing the needs of the patient, providing age-specific patient care based on assessment data, current knowledge/skills which include policies and procedures of the department and physician orders. Accepts assignments that coincide with her/his experience, knowledge, and ability.

Responsibilities

• May perform scrubbing duties for diagnostic/interventional cardiology and radiology procedures
• Assesses and reassesses the patient to gather data relevant to the patient’s individual, age-specific needs, and disease process
• Provides age-specific patient care according to the assessment data, departmental policies and procedures, and physician orders
• Evaluates the patient’s response to interventions
• Documents assessment data, patient care, interventions, and evaluations in the medical record
• Documents drug procedure and equipment data required for generating patient billing information and for departmental inventory control
• Participates in multidisciplinary discharge planning
• Ensures a safe environment for the patient
• Participates in teaching the patient and family
• Quality assurance and Core Measures for Cath Lab
• Completes continuing education and in-service training in order to maintain current knowledge or skills to perform job responsibilities

Category I exposure tasks involve exposure to blood and body fluids; therefore, personal protective equipment is required.

Requirements

• Advanced Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 90 days of employment start date
• Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
• Current Registered Nurse License in the State of Texas or Multi-State Compact License (Employees with RN Compact License are required to obtain Texas RN License within 90 days of hire date)
• Current American Heart Association BLS/ACLS Certification is required

About the organization

HCA Houston Healthcare North Cypress, a campus of HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood, is a 165+ bed, general acute care hospital founded in 2006 by local physicians. We provide world-class healthcare to patients throughout Cypress, TX, and Northwest Houston using the latest in medical technology and equipment. Our services include:

• 20+ bed ICU
• Robotic-assisted surgery
• Orthopedic care and joint replacement surgery
• Cancer care
• Advanced wound care services using hyperbaric medicine
• Advanced breast cancer screening and imaging

We are part of HCA Houston Healthcare, the most comprehensive family of hospitals in the region, and HCA Healthcare, the leading provider of healthcare in the country. HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times and spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.