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Job Title:
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RN REGISTRY-CATH LAB
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Job ID Number:
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20057-24945
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Facility:
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ILLINOIS MASONIC MEDICAL CENTER
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Department:
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CARDIAC CATH LAB
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City:
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Chicago
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Hours per pay period:
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0.00 - Registry
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Shift:
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Day
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Qualifications:
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Good communication skills
Computer skills
Good time management and organizational skills
Familiarity with patient care equipment
Graduate from an accredited school of nursing
Earn 5.0 continuing education credits annually
Minimum 2 years of experience
Approval of site Clinical Advancement Board
Current Illinois RN license
Current CPR/ACLS
Cath lab experience preferred
ICU expereince a must
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Job Description:
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The RN staff nurse assumes primary responsibility for the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of nursing care for assigned patients. A RN Registry plans and sets goals which demonstrate a holistic approach to patients and families. Assumes leadership responsibilities at the unit level. Demonstrates a mastery of clinical skills.
Accountabilities:
1. Nurse/Patient Relationship: Develops and maintains a therapeutic relationship throughout the healthcare continuum
2. Assuring/Improving Quality Care: Facilitates the patient and familys right to receive quality, cost effective care
3. Patient/Staff Education: Demonstrates a commitment to meeting the learning needs of patients and families. Utilizes appropriate resources to meet those needs and achieve positive patient outcomes. Assists in creating an environment that promotes educational growth opportunities for nursing peers and colleagues.
4. Nursing Process: Demonstrates the use of nursing process as a problem-solving model.
5. Leadership/Collaboration/Professional Development: Demonstrates respect and understanding for peers and other clinical disciplines and participates as an effective member of the patient care team to formulate an integrated approach to care. Demonstrates leadership behaviors and is committed to the development of self and others.
Addendum:
Nurse/Patient Relationships Plans, implements, evaluates, and modifies patient care management, related to procedural events and outcomes; Evaluates the patient/family response to the health care experience and redirects care appropriately. Assuring/Improving Quality Care Able to perform decentralized lab testing and QA maintenance in accordance with policy. Incorporates results in plan of care; Assumes on-call responsibilities Applies teaching and learning principles in implementing cardiac cath lab standards of care; Complies with established radiation safety standards. Education/Competency Provides for the special needs and behaviors of specific age groups served by the cardiac cath lab; Demonstrates competence in completion procedural documentation and assessment (written and computerized formats); Performs post-procedural patient follow-ups; Maintains departmental based mandatory educational requirements; Credentials on the following skills and equipment: ACLS, Cardioversion, Hemostasis, IABP Monitoring, Hemochron Nursing Process Interviews and obtains history utilizing direct and indirect sources of data. Assesses patients through physical assessment and the integration of physiologic data from monitoring devices; Demonstrates basic skills in diagnostic and interventional procedures functioning in various roles of circulating, scrub assistant, and hemodynamic monitoring; Understands pharmacological properties for medications related to cardiac cath lab procedures and evaluates patient response; Demonstrates appropriate actions in anticipated and actual life threatening situations; Analyzes and interprets hemodynamic and oximetric data and takes appropriate nursing actions; Proficient in Conscious Sedation administration, recovery, discharge, and documentation. Leadership/Collaboration/Professional Development Attends 50% of monthly staff meetings/inservices; Attends cath lab team meeting to discuss process improvement initiatives for the department; Assesses own educational needs, planning, and implementing strategies to meet knowledge deficiencies. ADDENDUM TO JOB DESCRIPTIONS RELATED TO PATIENT SAFETY Report patient safety events and near misses in timely fashion Adhere to all behavioral and procedural patient safety practices Promote culture of safety through identifying threats to patient safety and intervening to prevent patient harm Communicate openly and promote team work Report intimidating behavior and other threats to patient safety promptly --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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