Cardiac Telemetry Nurse

Job Summary And Responsibilities

As our Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high‑quality care that truly impacts our patients' well‑being and recovery.

• Perform complete patient assessment.
• Recognize significant changes in patient status and seek appropriate resources.
• Coordinate or collect physiologic monitoring data: vital signs, monitor results, lab and diagnostic test results.
• Perform ongoing assessment according to unit policy.
• Document assessment in compliance with hospital policy.

• Initiate the Patient Goal/Problem List or Clinical Path on admission.
• Develop Plan of Care to support the patient goals and the medical plan of care.
• Evaluate and document the patient’s response to the plan of care and make changes as appropriate.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to coordinate and plan provision of patient care.

• Obtain and/or verify all physician orders for procedures, medications, and therapies.
• Ensure the presence of consent and its documentation for procedures, therapies, and research protocols.
• Ensure the presence of appropriate supplies to perform the ordered procedure or therapy.
• Perform or assist in procedures and therapies according to policy and procedures.
• Assess the patient’s needs for medication prior to administration.
• Assess patient allergies and medication incompatibilities.
• Verify, administer and document medication according to hospital policy.
• Evaluate and document a patient's response to procedures, therapies and medications.
• Monitor the patient care record for accuracy and completeness of data provided by care team members.
• Coordinate and document communication between patient, significant others and multidisciplinary team members in order to support the plan of care.
• Ensure effective and wise use of resources, monitoring for cost containment.
• Facilitate appropriate length of hospital stay.

• Assess the patients and significant other’s knowledge base, ability and readiness to learn based on their developmental age.
• Identify and utilize multidisciplinary team members to provide comprehensive education for patients, self and others.
• Incorporate teaching principles and methods appropriate to knowledge base, ability and readiness to learn and based on developmental age.
• Demonstrate knowledge in area of teaching and available resources for patient and staff education.
• Document patient education in the patient care record.
• Evaluate the teaching process.
• Document staff education per policy.

• Participate in peer review.
• Provide learning opportunities and contribute to the orientation of team members, PRN personnel and students.
• Identify and implement educational opportunities for the staff.
• Serve as a preceptor and role model for new employees and students.
• Utilize conflict resolution to promote a cohesive team.
• Delegate assignments based on changes in census, staffing, patient, and unit needs.
• Enforce hospital/department specific policies.
• Maintain current knowledge of clinical and operational hospital policies and practice updates.
• Engage in a therapeutic relationship with patients and develop healthy interpersonal relationships among colleagues.
• Identify the most important needs to be met each shift within the context of available resources.
• Demonstrate accountability for individual nursing practice.
• Utilize the mechanisms of the Professional Nursing Shared Governance (PNSG) organization to address nursing matters.
• Demonstrate responsibility for being informed about the actions/activities of the PNSG.
• Participate in activities of the PNSG organization.

• Provide care to the patient population utilizing research findings and evidence based practice.
• Unit required certifications must be obtained within six months of hire.
• For any unit requiring CPI, it must be obtained within three months of hire.
• Meet all unit‑specific yearly skill requirements within an acceptable time frame.

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