Profession: Registered Nurse (RN)

Location: Plano Texas

Specialty: Cath Lab

Unit:

Gross Pay: 1088

Schedule: Evening - 4 x 10, 14:00:00-00:00:00, 10.00-4

Guaranteed Hours: 40

Openings: 1

Start Date: 06/21/2024

End Date: 09/20/2024

Assignment Length: 13

Experience Required: 1 year

JOB ID: Laboredge60872264

Other Info:

ID: 60872264 Shift: 4x10 Evening shift Description: Job Specific Notes: RN Cath Lab EveningsBaylor Heart Hospital Plano - Catheterization Lab Patient Population:?Invasive Cardiology, Structural Heart and Peripheral Vascular Disease. Patient Ratios: Procedural Area/Cath Lab; Baylor Heart Plano has the greatest technology; perform the most complex procedures; patients come to us from all over the world; great learning environment; highly experienced and regarded staff and doctors.Number of Rooms: 4 Cath Labs Shift: Evengings / Full Time / 4/10's Required Experience: Minimum of (2) two years of recent full time RN Cardiovascular ICU, CVICU or RN ER. Preferred previous experience in Cath Lab as RN JOB SUMMARYThe Cath Lab Registered Nurse (RN) is a licensed professional who uses the BSWH nursing professional practice model to coordinate patient care delivery by the health care team. Using the nursing process, the RN assesses the patient, identifies nursing diagnoses based on responses to health problems, develops and implements an individualized plan of care, and evaluates the patient's response. The RN promotes safe passage for their patients by using knowledge of patient needs and the healthcare environment to assist patients to transition through the healthcare encounter without any preventable complications or delays. The RN delegates interventions to health care personnel based on the Texas Nursing Practice Act, each patient's condition and the competencies of the employeeESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE ROLEClinical Judgment: Using clinical reasoning, conducts accurate clinical assessments according to practice standards. Identifies and prioritizes patient and family needs. Develops, implements and evaluates the nursing plan of care. Modifies plan to meet clinical outcomes.Clinical Inquiry: Systematically evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice, including, but not limited to, nursing delicate indicators. Helps evidence-based practice changes through research utilization and experiential learning. Participates in quality/performance improvement initiatives.Caring Practices: Creates an attentive, helpful, safe and therapeutic environment for patients, families and staff. Develops therapeutic relationships with patient and family and maintains appropriate boundaries. Manages both fervid and physical pain with the aim of promoting relief and healing and preventing unnecessary suffering.Response to Diversity: Recognizes, appreciates and incorporates a patient's and family's unique differences, such as culture, spiritual beliefs, gender, race, ethnicity, lifestyle, socioeconomic status, age, and values, into an individualized plan of care.Advocacy and Moral Agency: Preserves and protects the confidentiality, autonomy, dignity and rights of patient and family and represents their concerns. Creates an individualized plan that accurately reflects patient and family values and goals. Identifies and helps resolve ethical and clinical concerns.Facilitation of Learning: Facilitates learning for patients and families, nursing staff, other members of the health care team and community; integrating appropriate education throughout the continuum of care to help them participate and/or make informed conclusions about their health care and treatments, including health promotion and disease prevention. Assesses and documents learning needs and outcomes.Partnership: Works collaboratively and interdependently with colleagues and community to develop and implement an integrated plan of care. Open and delicate to all team members' unique contributions. Delegates tasks and care to appropriate staff and ensures timely follow-up.Systems Thinking: Uses strategies and available resources for problem-solving for patients, family and staff. Recognizes that resources are limited and considers factors related to safety, effectiveness and efficiency in planning and delivering patient care.Professionalism: Improves nursing practice and the work environment through participating in mutual governance and conclusion-making processes and meaningfully recognizing the contributions of others. Participates in the staffing process from education and planning to evaluation. Identifies personal goals and fulfills to ongoing professional growth through continuing education, networking with professional colleagues, membership and involvement in professional nursing organizations, self-study, professional reading, certification and seeking advanced degrees. Contributes to the professional development of peers, colleagues and others. Demonstrates commitment to community service.KEY SUCCESS FACTORSKnowledge and expertise of nursing and patient care standards and procedures.Knowledge of laws, rules and regulations; standards and guidelines of certifying and accrediting bodies; hospital and department/unit standards, protocols, policies and procedures governing the provision of nursing care applicable to the area of assignment.Knowledge of medical terminology; methods and practices of health promotion, risk reduction, illness and disease prevention and management; medications and drugs, common dosages, their physical and physiological effects, and possible adverse reactions.Knowledge of medical and professional nursing ethics and patient privacy rights.Must be able to communicate thoughts clearly, both verbally and in writing.Social skills to interact with a wide-range of constituencies.Must have critical thinking and problem-solving skills.Ability to observe changes in the medical condition of patients and effectively communicate these changes to other nursing staff members and physicians/providers.Ability to provide age-specific, quality, patient-centered care to all patients through the nursing process and standards of nursing practice with care and respect for the diversity of human experience and to develop, evaluate, implement and, as necessary, modify a patient care plan to meet the needs of separate patients.General computer skills, including but not limited to: Microsoft Office, information security, scheduling and payroll systems, electronic medical documentation, and email.BENEFITSOur competitive benefits package includes the followingImmediate eligibility for health and welfare benefits401(k) savings plan with dollar-for-dollar match up to 5%Tuition ReimbursementPTO accrual beginning Day 1QUALIFICATIONS- EDUCATION - Grad of an Accredited Program or 2 years of work experience above the minimum qualification- MAJOR - Nursing- EXPERIENCE -Minimum of (2) two years of recent full time RN Cardiovascular ICU, CVICU or RN ER. Preferred previous experience in Cath Lab as RN - CERTIFICATION/LICENSE/REGISTRATION - Basic Life Support (BLS) Registered Nurse (RN) ACLS (ACLS): Must have both Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Basic Life Support (BLS) within 30 days of hire.Description for Job Board:Performs and documents ongoing assessments including observation, physical examination, laboratory/test results, and patient response to procedural intervention. Reviews and revises plan of care according to change in patient s status. Incorporates patient teaching/discharge planning to promote optimal patient outcomes. Coordinates and documents appropriate discharge planning and referrals to ensure continuity of care after discharge. Guaranteed Hours: Contract Weeks:91

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