RN Cardiac Cath Lab

About the role

As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that impacts our patients' well-being and recovery. Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate within an interdisciplinary team in a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

To succeed, you will need keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will support patient recovery and fuel your career advancement.

Responsibilities

• Assumes responsibility for acquiring knowledge and skills necessary for patient care in the identified practice setting.
• Performs assessment and analyzes patient problems and conditions using critical decision-making to determine need for standard, urgent, or emergent interventions.
• Implements and/or modifies plan of care using assessment data, standards of care, and evidence-based practice, including nursing care coordination, patient and family education, and discharge planning.
• Facilitates interdisciplinary partnership in patient care.
• Integrates ethical provisions in nursing practice and delivers care in a manner that preserves and protects patient autonomy, dignity, and rights.
• Administers medications, IV therapy, and treatments in compliance with policies and procedures.
• Evaluates progress towards attainment of desired patient outcomes.

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing (required upon hire).
• Registered Nurse license in Kentucky (required upon hire).
• Basic Life Support - CPR certification (required upon hire).
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification (required within 90 days of hire).

Where you'll work

Welcome to Saint Joseph East, a 217-bed, full-service community hospital located in Lexington, Kentucky. The hospital includes the Women's Hospital at Saint Joseph East, dedicated to supporting women's well-being, and a 16-bed Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).

CHI Saint Joseph Health is part of CommonSpirit Health, a non-profit, Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. With approximately 175,000 team members and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians, CommonSpirit Health delivers clinical excellence across a system of 140 hospitals and more than 2,200 care centers serving 24 states.

Pay

$30.00 - $43.50 per hour.