EP Lab RN

Position

Electrophysiology Lab RN

Shift: Full-time, 4x10s

Experience:

2 yr or more of previous Cath Lab, EP, or IR experience

The Cath Lab Registered Nurse (RN) is a licensed professional who uses the BSWH nursing professional practice model to coordinate patient‑care delivery by the health‑care team. Using the nursing process, the RN assesses the patient, identifies nursing diagnoses, develops and implements an individualized plan of care, and evaluates the patient’s response. The RN promotes safe passage for their patients by using knowledge of patient needs and the healthcare environment to assist patients to transition through the healthcare encounter without preventable complications or delays.

The RN delegates interventions to health‑care personnel based on the Texas Nursing Practice Act, each patient’s condition and the competencies of the employee.

• Clinical Judgment:
  Using clinical reasoning, conducts accurate clinical assessments according to practice standards; identifies and prioritizes patient and family needs; develops, implements, and evaluates the nursing plan of care; modifies the plan to meet clinical outcomes.
• Clinical Inquiry:
  Systematically evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice, including, but not limited to, nursing‑sensitive indicators; supports evidence‑based practice changes through research utilization and experiential learning; participates in quality/performance improvement initiatives.
• Caring Practices:
  Creates a compassionate, supportive, safe, and therapeutic environment for patients, families, and staff; develops therapeutic relationships and maintains appropriate boundaries; manages both emotional and physical pain with the aim of promoting comfort and healing and preventing unnecessary suffering.
• Response to Diversity:
  Recognizes, appreciates, and incorporates a patient’s and family’s unique differences—culture, spirituality, gender, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, age, and values—into an individualized plan of care.
• Advocacy and Moral Agency:
  Preserves and protects the confidentiality, autonomy, dignity, and rights of patient and family; represents their concerns; creates an individualized plan that reflects patient and family values and goals; identifies and helps resolve ethical and clinical concerns.
• Facilitation of Learning:
  Facilitates learning for patients and families, nursing staff, other health‑care team members, and the community; integrates appropriate education throughout the continuum of care to enable informed decisions; assesses and documents learning needs and outcomes.
• Collaboration:
  
  Works collaboratively and interdependently with colleagues and community to develop and implement an integrated plan of care; is open and sensitive to all team members’ contributions; delegates tasks and care to appropriate staff and ensures timely follow‑up.
• Systems Thinking:
  Uses strategies and available resources for problem‑solving for patients, family and staff; considers factors related to safety, effectiveness, and efficiency in planning and delivering patient care.
• Professionalism:
  Improves nursing practice and the work environment through participation in shared governance and decision‑making processes; engages in staffing process from education and planning to evaluation; pursues ongoing professional growth through continuing education, networking, membership in professional organizations, self‑study, professional reading, certification, and advanced degrees; contributes to professional development of peers and community service.

• Knowledge and understanding of nursing and patient care standards and procedures.
• Knowledge of laws, rules and regulations; standards and guidelines of certifying and accrediting bodies; hospital and department/unit standards, protocols, policies and procedures governing the provision of nursing care applicable to the area of assignment.
• Knowledge of medical terminology; principles and practices of health promotion, risk reduction, illness and disease prevention and management; medications and drugs, common dosages, their physical and physiological…