Senior Registered Nurse - Cath/Electrophysiology Lab - PRN

About the role

The RN serves as a patient advocate, focusing on patient needs, rights, confidentiality, and cultural preferences. They provide care for assigned patient populations in accordance with the State of Texas Nurse Practice Act and maintain knowledge of applicable rules, regulations, policies, laws, and guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Serves as a patient advocate, focusing on patient needs, rights, confidentiality, and cultural preferences.
• Maintains and implements knowledge of applicable rules, regulations, policies, laws, and guidelines that impact or govern nursing practice.
• Maintains and updates knowledge and appropriate utilization of sanitation, infection control, safety, supplies, equipment, and materials.
• Performs appropriate patient assessments including continuous surveillance.
• Participates consistently in Universal Protocol and site marking identification.
• Recognizes changes in a patient's condition and provides appropriate interventions as necessary and ordered.
• Manages a cardiology patient with varied medical conditions.
• Administers sedation and analgesia, physiologically monitors patient during procedures, and uses monitor to record physiological status and documents accordingly.
• Affirms patient-centered/patient-valued behaviors.
• Provides patient care educational information and training to patient and family members for those requiring care in Cath/EP Lab.
• Works with other staff in providing direction to non-nursing staff, participates in information exchanges, and serves as Charge Nurse as necessary.
• Serves as a preceptor or trainer to newer nursing and clinical staff members as well as student trainees.
• Prepares and conducts an in-service educational program for the Cath Lab/Electrophysiology department, at least once per year.
• Identifies ways to improve work processes and patient and customer satisfaction. Makes recommendations to supervisor, implements, and monitors results as appropriate in support of the overall goals of the department and Parkland.

Qualifications

• Must be a graduate from an accredited school of nursing.
• Preferred Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
• Must have two years of nursing experience.
• Preferred experience in a critical care setting (ICU, ED, etc) or previous Cath/EP Lab setting.
• Must have current, valid RN license or temporary RN license from the Texas Board of Nursing, or valid Compact RN license.
• Must have current healthcare provider BLS for Healthcare Providers certification from one of the following: American Heart Association, American Red Cross, Military Training Network.
• Must have current Advanced Life Support (ALS) or Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification on hire or placement in role.