Cardiac Monitoring Registered Nurse

Job Summary

The Cardiac Monitoring Nurse (RN) will perform a full range of medical care duties in support of the Veteran community at the Dayton VA Medical Center. Registered Nurses are responsible for delivering high-quality, compassionate, patient-centered care while adhering to established clinical standards, policies, and procedures.

$ 41.95 / hr + $5.42 H&W Fringe

• Obtain patient history and pertinent family history.
• Assess patients and plan appropriate nursing care.
• Document plan of care and care given in patient’s medical record.
• Verify transcription of physician’s orders, no verbal orders are to be accepted.
• Communicate pertinent patient data to charge nurse and/or physician as appropriate.
• Reassess patient’s condition and revise plans of care based on identified nursing problems.
• Administer medications and Intravenous (IV) therapies.
• Possess knowledge of actions and usual dosages of most used emergency drugs and their location on crash cart.
• Assess and document patient responses to medication that has been administered.
• Be able to interpret cardiac rhythms and their implications.
• Reorganize and initiate appropriate measures in emergencies/therapies and surgical/diagnostic procedures that shall be accomplished.
• Instruct patient/family regarding prescribed medications/ therapies and surgical/diagnostic procedures that shall be accomplished.
• Assess patient/family knowledge level, implement plan of instructions and record patient/family demonstrated level of understanding.
• Operate defibrillator, EKG machines and cardiac monitor and other emergency technical equipment.
• Participate in discharge planning, as appropriate.
• Assure content and correctness of a prepared report and sign the document to validate its content.
• Maintain neat, personal appearance and maintain professional decorum.
• Consistently, apply VA customer service standards, demonstrating helpful, courteous, and respectful conduct at all times.
• Respect patient’s rights, including but not limited to visual and auditory privacy.
• Intake and output are assessed every shift, and more frequently if indicated by specific standard nursing drug care.

• Required to have a minimum of one (1) year direct patient care experience within the last three (3) years.
• Primary Care Registered Nurse (those with experience in Intensive Care, Medical-Surgical Units, Telemetry and Cardiac Monitoring and Emergency Room) shall have:
  Graduated from a school of professional nursing approved by the appropriate State-accrediting agency and accredited by one of the following accrediting bodies at the time the program was completed by the applicant:
  The accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or the commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).
• Required to have a current license from the Ohio Board of Nursing.
• All Licenses held shall be full and unrestricted.
• Required to have a current certification in CPR by an American Health Association Vendor.
• Required to have a current BLS & ACLS certification.

• VA Business
  
  Hours:
  
  24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• Primary Care:
  Normal clinic hours

• 8 a.m.
  
  - 4:30 p.m.
• Allowed two (2) 15-minute breaks and a 30-minute lunch

this position is notional and contingent upon the award of a government contract.

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