RN - Cath Lab

Overview:

The RN Cath Lab, under the supervision of the Clinical Manager and or Charge RN/ Cath lab lead designee, conducts initial and on-going assessments, develops the patient plan of care through the use of Clinical Pathways, directs and delivers patient care, patient and family education, identifies and corrects variances from the patient's Clinical Pathway, and completes discharge planning. S/he will care for adults and geriatric patient groups.

Responsibilities:

Education

• Maintains expertise in cardiac and other monitoring equipment.

Data Integrity

• Documents assessments, interventions and patient responses.

• Performs audits of documentation to ensure consistency and that standards are met.

Patient Care

• Communicates and documents patient/family learning needs.

• Completes a thorough physical assessment at time of admission.

• Prioritizes and problem solves to meet changes in patient status/condition.

• Manages medications, IV's, and blood products.

• Utilizes pain scale in pain assessment.

• Provides psychological and social support for patient/families.

• Participates in discharge planning and patient education.

• Monitors the medical condition of patient(s) and reports changes.

Operations

• Demonstrates ability to update patient status in the EMR (admission to cath lab, post procedure, or when care and practice via the nursing process indicates a change).

• Completes Inter-Disciplinary profile.

• Initiates and updates the clinical pathway.

• Demonstrates knowledge in the use of department medical equipment.

• Documents nursing interventions, patient's response to interventions and any changes in patient condition electronic record.

• Communicates and documents patient/family learning needs.

• Demonstrates the ability to interpret and communicate basic laboratory and diagnostic data and communicates results to provider.

Compliance/Safety

• Responsible for reporting any safety-related incident in a timely fashion through the Midas/RDE tool; attends all safety-related training programs; performs work in a safe manner; monitors work environment for possible safety issues and ensures others are also performing work in a safe manner.

• Stays current and complies with state and federal regulations/statutes and company policies that impact the employee's area of responsibility.

• If required for the position, ensures all certifications and/or licenses are up-to-date and valid prior to expiration dates.

• Completes all company mandatory modules and required job-specific training in the specified time frame.

• Maintains responsibilities for the patient during transfer from cath lab to the nursing unit and provides a report to RN accessing patient.

Qualifications:

Education
RNs hired on or after 7/1/2016: Must graduate from a BSN program within 6 years of hire into an RN position.

Existing Staff RNs: RNs hired before 7/1/2016 are not mandated to have a BSN, but are encouraged to pursue a BSN degree.

Certification & Licensures
Active, unrestricted, Arizona RN License or valid, participating compact license- Required

BLS- Required upon hire

ACLS- Required upon hire

CVRN and/or CCRN- Preferred

Employee will obtain and maintain appropriate clinical competencies for the roles assigned by their departmental leader.

Experience
Emergency experience- Required

Critical Care or Cath Lab experience- Preferred

Healthcare is a rapidly changing environment and technology is integrated into almost all aspects of patient care. Computers and other electronic devices are utilized across the organization and throughout each department. Colleagues must have an understanding of computers, and competence in using computers and basic software programs.