Registered Nurse Cath Lab

Position Summary

Registered Nurse FT Cardiac Cath Lab

Position Summary

Administers patient care in an area in a hospital or inpatient setting where patients have an advanced illness or injury that routinely requires timely, intense, and complex care to stabilize and support the patient’s medical condition. These areas require a lower caregiver-to-patient ratio and highly trained team members with advanced skills.

SHIFT: 12:00PM-8:30PM Monday-Friday, four (4) ten hours shifts

A cath lab nurse plays a vital role in supporting patients undergoing cardiac catheterization and other interventional procedures. Their duties include preparing patients before procedures by reviewing medical histories, starting IV lines, administering medications, and providing education to ease anxiety. A key responsibility is the safe administration of moderate sedation, which involves assessing the patient beforehand, monitoring level of consciousness, airway patency, oxygenation, cardiac rhythm, and hemodynamic stability throughout the procedure, and documenting responses to medications.

During procedures, the nurse assists the cardiologist with sterile technique and equipment, while remaining vigilant for any complications and intervening promptly as needed. Following the procedure, the cath lab nurse is responsible for recovery from moderate sedation, including ongoing monitoring, managing pain or adverse reactions, ensuring the patient returns to baseline status, and providing thorough post-procedure and discharge instructions. Strong critical thinking skills, attention to detail, teamwork, and the ability to remain calm under pressure are essential expectations for this role.

• Demonstrates critical knowledge, skills, and judgement to care for patients requiring complex assessment and therapies, high intensity interventions, and high-level continuous nursing vigilance.
• Utilizes information and assessment data to anticipate and respond with confidence and adapt to rapidly changing patient conditions.
• Identifies and prioritizes information to take immediate and decisive evidence-based, patient focused action.
• Monitors and adjusts specialized equipment used on patients, and interprets and records electronic displays, such as intracranial pressures, central venous pressures, pulmonary artery pressures, and cardiac rhythms from cardiac monitors, respirators, ventilators, oxygen pumps, etc.
• Responds to life-saving situations based on nursing standards and protocol.
• Observes, monitors, and assesses patients’ condition, recognizes, identifies, and interprets serious situations and calls Physician or takes preplanned emergency measures when Physician is not immediately available.
• Assesses patient’s needs and develops/revises an individualized plan of care based on patient needs and responses. Evaluates the patient’s progress toward attaining expected outcomes.
• Respects diversity by building respectful relationships with all team members and customers.
• Functions as a patient and family advocate.
• Demonstrates advanced knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served on his or her assigned unit/department.
• Serves as a preceptor, charge nurse, unit educator, and/ or nurse clinician.
• Communicates and collaborates with medical staff and interdisciplinary team to effectively plan and manage the unit/department.
• Serves as a role model for staff and supports the hospital and nursing department’s goals and strategies.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span, assesses the data reflective of the patient’s status, and interprets the necessary information needed to identify each patient’s requirements relative to his or her age specific needs.
• Coordinates the care and delegates as appropriate to other team members on a defined group of patients.
• Documents patient care in a knowledgeable, skillful, and consistent manner meeting all required and regulatory standards. This includes but is not limited to patient assessment, education, medication administration, treatments, and patient safety.
• Demonstrates competency in nursing skills and use of patient…