Registered Nurse Vascular Outpatient Procedure

As a Registered Nurse Vascular Outpatient Procedure, your voice to influence patient care is valued and empowered at every turn –whether through open, collaborative relationships with your direct manager or more formal opportunities through hospital councils and national nursing initiatives. You'll help shape decisions that elevate both patient outcomes and the future of nursing.

The Registered Nurse, under the direction of the Department Manager, is responsible for professional nursing care and related assistance to adult and geriatric patients. Patients with a broad range of illnesses, admission/assessment of patients, medication administration, direct and indirect patient care, circulating diagnostic and interventional cases, scrubbing diagnostic/interventional procedures, and procedure documentation/hemodynamic monitoring. Other departmental duties as assigned, such as ordering supplies/maintaining inventory, providing appropriate information towards future needs and actively supporting process improvement within the Department.

The RN maintains an active marketing profile for the facility/physicians and maintains professional standards and seeks professional growth. The RN practices in accordance with organizational medical staff directives, philosophy, goals, and objectives of the Department and St. David’s Healthcare.

Schedule: This role is M-F. Combination of 8's and 10's. No Call and No Weekends, Floating required to Austin and Georgetown locations

• Participates in assessment and reassessment according to patient’s progress and/or unit protocols. Reports findings and communicates all patient information to the physician.
• Participates in plan of care in collaboration with peers, physicians, and allied health staff using approved Clinical Pathways
• Implements services according to the needs of the patient, physician orders, or approved clinical pathway
• Evaluates and adjusts care to meet patient needs and goals.
• Provides comprehensive direct patient care and ensures a safe and comforting environment.
• Actively assists the physician in the clinical management of patients.
• Assists in teaching families/significant others of patients.
• Always maintains confidentiality of patients, families, and staff.
• Assists in discharge planning, upon admission, monitors the clinical pathways for variances, and notifies the provider of clinical observations
• Demonstrates knowledge and ability to use necessary equipment
• Demonstrates ability to react calmly and effectively in an emergency.
• Adheres to all Policies and Procedures
• Performs Point of Care procedures in a timely manner according to established policy and procedure.
• Accurately documents all required information and ensures compliance with all Point-of-Care quality control standard
• Manage the patient with suspected/documented history of vascular disease undergoing diagnostic/interventional procedures.
• Complete and document assessment appropriate to Age/patient condition.
• Reassess and document the patient’s condition according to policy and patient.
• Administer medications; monitor and document response.
• Monitor patient’s overall status throughout pre, during, and post-procedure care.
• Immediately communicates patient changes to physician.
• Demonstrate proficiency in managing patients with a potentially life-threatening dysrhythmia or hemodynamic change via a physician order by using medications and emergency equipment including but not limited to:
  • Defibrillator
  • Dopamine
  • NTG
• Explain procedure to the patient and assess patients’ understanding prior to start of procedure.
• Demonstrate ability to use equipment within the department.
• Enter patient demographic data accurately for documentation purposes
• Adhere to radiation safety precautions
• Safely defibrillate, cardiovert and pace using pacer-defibrillator.
• Perform functions to support departmental operations.
• Serve as liaison between patients, physicians and other departments to optimize patient care and efficiency.
• Schedule procedures correctly, including entering reservations.
• Proficiently use the EMR to retrieve pertinent patient data.
• Monitor patients pre/post op as designated by Supervisor
• Ente…