CARE Cardiac Cath Holding Care Registered Nurse (RN)

City/State

Work Shift

7:00a- 7:00p, 3 days a week, Monday - Friday. No weekends or major holidays.

5:30a-4:00p, 3 days a week, Monday - Friday. No weekends or major holidays.

 Cath Holding Department/Position Overview:

• Our unit is open M-F 6A-11P, closed on major holidays.

• The 30-bed unit prepares and recovers patients for procedures in the Cath lab, EP lab, and Minor Procedure Room as well as the Cardiac OR for surgery.

• The average patient volume each day for this unit is approximately 40-50 patients.

• The types of procedures that we prepare and recover patients for include but is not limited to: Cardiac Catheterization (interventional and diagnostic), Electrophysiology procedures such as cardiac ablations, Cardioversions, surgery and ICDs/Pacemakers etc.

Registered Nurse must have 1+ years of bedside nursing experience.  Telemetry -Cardiac experience preferred.

The Registered Nursing (RN) is responsible for performing a competent level of nursing care as demonstrated by the critical thinking model known as the nursing process. The standards of practice (assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, implementation, coordination of care- teaching and health promotion and evaluation) along with the standards of professional performance (ethics, culturally congruent practice, communication, collaboration, leadership, education, evidence- based practice /nursing research, quality, evaluation, resource utilization, and environmental health)

•    Associate’s Degree or Diploma in Registered Nursing (required)

•    Bachelor of Science Nursing- BSN or MSN (Preferred)

•    Virginia RN License Virginia or Compact/Multi-State Eligible.

•    All Direct Care RN's required to have BLS within 90 days of hire.

•    Critical Care/IMCU ACLS within 1 year of hire

•  Registered Nurse must have 1+ years of bedside nursing experience. Telemetry -Cardiac experience preferred.

•  Previous healthcare experience (preferred) 

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