RN Navigator Cath Lab Procedural

About the Role

Looking for a way to leverage your Cath Lab experience and Charge Nurse experience? In this RN Navigator role you will be the team lead and coordinator supporting the daily operations of our Cath Lab team. Duties include coordinating the schedule and ensuring the teams flow efficiently have assignments appropriate to their skill sets. This position helps transport patients and jumps into the count often to assist teams or accommodate STEMI/emergent cases.

University Medical Center Phoenix is a nationally recognized academic medical center. The world-class hospital is focused on coordinated clinical care, expanded research activities and nurturing future generations of highly trained medical professionals. Our commitment to nursing excellence has enabled us to achieve Magnet™ recognition by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. The Phoenix campus, long known for excellent patient care, has over 730 licensed beds, several unique specialty units and is the new home for medical discoveries, thanks to our collaboration with the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix. Additionally, the campus responsibilities include fully integrated multi-specialty and sub-specialty clinics.

Responsibilities

• Serves as a liaison with physicians, allied health personnel, and organizational vendors to identify and prioritize specialty service supply, instrument, and equipment needs for patient procedures.
• Reviews future schedule to prepare required equipment and resolve supply and equipment conflicts.
• Coordinates oversight of quality, risk management, safety, and nursing standards and is a role model and resource for providing quality patient care and maintaining clinical competency on department.
• Formulates and implements the plan of care through direct patient care, coordination, delegation and supervision of the activities of the health care team.
• Provides care based on physician orders and the nursing plan of care, in compliance with policies and procedures, standards of care, and regulatory agency requirements.
• Delegates appropriately, and provides nursing supervision in the provision of care to patients by other licensed nurses and other personnel.
• Promotes continuity of care by accurately and completely communicating to other caregivers the status of patients for whom care is provided.
• Ensures efficient and cost-effective use of department resources by coordinating use of appropriate supplies and equipment for scheduled procedures.
• Participates in continuous quality improvement of their service to benefit patient and physician needs.
• Collaborates and communicates with leadership and support staff for identification of operational and capital inventory needs.
• Participates in prioritization of equipment requests for budgeting purposes.
• Promotes/supports growth of others through precepting, mentoring, and orientation when appropriate.
• Serves as a positive, clinical role model to facilitate staff development.
• Communicates with scheduling for clarification of unique procedures, protocols, and inventory descriptions to facilitate the scheduling process.
• May collaborate with staff in determining par levels for automatic reordering based on scheduled procedures, historical usage, availability, and product acquisition time.
• Interacts with all levels of staff in a variety of departments, physicians, patients, families and external contacts, including vendors and physician offices.
• Interacts with other health care providers in numerous settings in order to report and ask for or clarify information.

Requirements

• Must possess a current, valid RN license in state of practice.
• BLS certification is required.
• Must possess experience typically demonstrated through a minimum of three years of related clinical experience.
• Must maintain clinical performance competencies appropriate to the area in which they work as demonstrated through annual validations.
• Must demonstrate commitment to professional improvement and practices to support the budgetary plan.
• Demonstrates critical thinking and leadership abilities.
• Requires strong oral and written communication skills.

Qualifications

• Ideal Candidate Will have at least 2 years of Cath Lab experience or other critical care areas (clearly reflected in attached resume).
• BLS and ACLS (uploaded to application).
• Live within 30 minutes of the facility (due to call requirement).

If you are a New Graduate Nurse with less than 12 months of experience, please visit the main job search page and use keywords RN New Grad.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Professional certification preferred. Certification may be preferred according to work assignment.
• Additional related education and/or experience preferred.

Schedule

Full time, 4 x 10-hour shifts. 6:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Monday - Friday. PRN Call available.