Registered Nurse (RN) - Cath Lab

Manages, coordinates, and performs nursing care with compassion for an assigned group of patients and their families, incorporating preventative measures. A goal of nursing is to educate and restore a patient to an optimal level of wellness as defined by the patient and their families.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited school of professional nursing.
• Current registration or eligibility for licensure with the State of Illinois for practice as a professional nurse.

Responsibilities

• Clinical Judgement
  • Clinical reasoning, including decision-making, critical thinking, and a global grasp of the situation, coupled with nursing skills acquired through integrating formal and informal experiential knowledge and evidence-based guidelines.
  • Demonstrates the ability to assess the full scope of patient needs using the nursing process on a continuous basis.
  • Utilizes past nursing experience to anticipate problems while seeking out multi-disciplinary collaboration when necessary.
  • Recognizes patterns and trends that may predict the direction of illness.
• Caring Practices
  • Creates a compassionate, supportive, and therapeutic environment for patients, families, and staff.
  • Works on another’s behalf and represents the concerns of the patient, family, and nursing staff; serves as a moral agent in identifying and helping to resolve ethical and clinical concerns.
  • Promotes safety throughout patient’s and family’s transitions along the healthcare continuum.
  • Actively anticipates and monitors patient and family changes, responding appropriately.
  • Effectively resolves patient complaints.
  • Engages all patients in a personalized, compassionate manner.
• Collaboration/Systems Thinking
  • Works with others (e.g., patients, families, healthcare providers) to promote each person’s contribution toward achieving optimal patient/family goals.
  • Involves intra- and interdisciplinary work with colleagues and the community.
  • Consults and coordinates with team members to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care plans.
  • Actively utilizes evidence-based practice and customer service data to improve caring practices.
  • Effectively plans and communicates patient care plans.
  • Facilitates active involvement of others in team meetings regarding patient care and/or practice issues.
  • Seeks out opportunities to be taught, coached, and mentored.
  • Recruits diverse resources when appropriate to optimize patient outcomes.
  • Serves as a resource to the department and patient/family.
• Response to Diversity
  • Sensitivity to recognize, appreciate, and incorporate differences into the provision of care (e.g., cultural, spiritual, gender, race, ethnicity, lifestyle, socioeconomic status, age, and values).
  • Integrates cultural differences into patient/family care; incorporates appropriate alternative therapies.
  • Tailors healthcare culture to meet the diverse needs and strengths of each patient/family.
• Facilitation of Learning
  • Facilitates learning for patients, families, nursing staff, other healthcare team members, and the community, both formally and informally.
  • Develops and modifies patient/family education programs throughout delivery of care, collaborating with all healthcare providers.
  • Provides individualized care.
  • Evaluates patient’s understanding by observing behavior changes throughout the plan of care.
  • Sets patient-driven goals for education.
  • Works toward achieving a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree.
• Clinical Inquiry (Innovator/Evaluator)
  • Ongoing process of questioning and evaluating practice and providing informed practice.
  • Creates practice changes through research utilization and experiential learning.
  • Adapts standards of care to serve particular patient populations.
  • Seeks out advice to improve patient care.
  • Evaluates current practices based on patient responses, analysis of literature, research, and education.
  • Incorporates evidence-based practice into care delivery.
  • Actively pursues continuing educational opportunities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Pay

USD $30.23/Hr. – Max USD $48.37/Hr.