Registered Nurse (RN) - Atrium Health Levine Children's - EP Cath Lab

Job Req ID: 806601

Position Number: 00155497

Employment Type: Full Time

Shift: Variable/On Call

Shift Details: Saturday - Sunday, 9 hr shifts Rotating days

Standard Hours: 36.00

Department Name: LCH CV Invasive Lab

Location: Carolinas Medical Center

Location Details: 

Our mission is to improve health, elevate hope and advance healing - for all. The name Atrium Health allows us to grow beyond our current walls and geographical borders to impact as many lives as possible and deliver solutions that help communities thrive. For more information, please visit atriumhealth.org/about-us.

 

 

Job Summary

The RN Clinical Nurse I provides professional nursing care through skillful assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation in accordance with facility or department policies procedures, and/or protocols under the supervision of the nursing leader. Assists in maintaining a safe work environment and performs all related job responsibilities in a safe manner. Maintains clinical and professional competency as appropriate to the population of patients served.

 

"The Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute/ Levine Children's Hospital Congenital Heart Center, established in 2010, has been ranked as one of the top - 50 pediatric heart centers in the country by U.S. News and World Report for the last seven years. We are the only ranked program in North Carolina, and are currently in the top 20. Our comprehensive services include cardiac imaging, diagnostic and interventional catheterization, electrophysiology, dedicated cardiovascular intensive care staff. 3D printing, and regional referral programs in heart failure and transplantation, adult congenital heart disease, and fetal echocardiography. We perform 400 surgical procedures and 600 catheterization/ electrophysiology procedures annually, from neonates to adults. Our state of the art two lab cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology suite opened in February 2017, with dedicated staffing and cardiac anesthesia teams. The interventional cardiac catheterization program is active in clinical research. Participation in investigator initiated and multi-center studies is ongoing within the Heart Center, with support of an active clinical research department."



Essential Functions

 

 

• Collects data pertinent to the healthcare consumer's health or the situation. Analyzes the assessment data to determine actual or potential diagnoses, problems, and issues.


• Identifies expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the healthcare consumer or the situation.


• Develops a plan that prescribes strategies to attain expected, measurable outcomes.


• Implements the identified plan, coordinates care delivery, and employs strategies to promote health and a safe environment.


• Delegates elements of care to appropriate healthcare workers in accordance with any applicable legal or policy parameters or principles.


• Evaluates progress toward attainment of goals and outcomes.


• Practices in a manner that is congruent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles.


• Communicates effectively in all areas of practice.


• Collaborates with healthcare consumer and other key stakeholders in the conduct of nursing practice.


• Leads within the professional practice setting and the profession.


• Integrates evidence and research findings into practice.


• Contributes to quality nursing practice.


• Evaluates one's own and others nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules and regulations.


• Utilizes appropriate resources to plan, provide, and sustain evidence-based nursing services that are safe, effective, and fiscally responsible.


• Practices in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.


• Practices ethically.


• Promotes shared governance, or facility decision making activities, developing and nurturing research to positively affect clinical outcomes and promotion.


• Performs care for the comfort and well being of the patient which includes Neonates through Adults with Congenital Cardiac Defects.


• Perfoms and/ or assists with treatments, therapies, and procedures (including scrub assistant, monitoring and circulating) under the direction of the physician.


• Call requirements that include rotating teams covering weeknights, weekends, holidays

Physical Requirements

Work requires walking, standing, sitting, lifting, reaching, stooping, bending, pushing, and pulling. Must be able to lift and support the weight of 35 pounds in handling patients, medical equipment, and supplies. Must speak English in good, understandable terms. Intact sense of sight, hearing, smell, and touch. Finger dexterity. Critical thinking and ability to concentrate. Must be able to respond quickly to changes in patient and/or unit conditions. Physical Abilities Testing required. Standing and walking while wearing 10 - 20 lbs lead radiation protection aprons. Potential exposure to radiation, secretions and blood. Confined work area.





Education, Experience and Certifications.

Graduate from an accredited School of Nursing. BSN preferred. Current Basic Life Support for Healthcare Provider status according to American Heart Association. Current RN license or temporary license as a Registered Nurse Petitioner in the state in which you work and reside or; if declaring a National License Compact (NLC) state as your primary state of residency, meet the licensure requirements in your home state; or for Non-National License Compact states, current RN license or temporary license as a Registered Nurse Petitioner required in the state where the RN works. Experience in pediatric cardiology, pediatric intensive care, operating room, interventional radiology, or cardiac catherization laboratory preferred.

 

 

 

At Atrium Health, our patients, communities and teammates are at the center of everything we do. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion allows us to deliver care that is superior in quality and compassion across our network of more than 900 care locations.

 

As a leading, innovative health system, we promote an environment where differences are valued and integrated into our workforce. Our culture of inclusion and cultural competence allows us to achieve our goals and deliver the best possible experience to patients and the communities we serve.

 

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Atrium Health is an EOE/AA Employer