Registered Nurse - Cath Lab

Registered Nurse (RN) – Tri‑Valley

A Brief Overview:
The Registered Nurse (RN) provides direct patient care, practicing in an evidence-based manner, within the scope of practice of the California Nursing Practice Act, regulatory requirements, standards of care, and hospital policies. The RN performs all steps of the nursing process including assessing patients, interpreting data, planning, implementing, and evaluating care. In addition, the RN coordinates care with other providers and acts as a teacher to the patient and family to provide the knowledge and skills needed to manage their care and prevent complications.

Stanford Health Care Tri‑Valley

• Assesses patients by collecting and documenting data through interviewing, history taking, personal needs, and physical assessment findings.
• Obtains accurate and relevant assessment screening data and interprets the data as normal vs. abnormal.
• Determines nursing diagnosis.
• Monitors and evaluates data as frequently as needed based on stability.
• Safely performs and documents care plan using nursing procedures required for the patient assignment consistent with the standards of care.
• Evaluates effectiveness of interventions and monitors patient for adverse responses and side effects.
• Assesses patient/family level of understanding and documents information on clinical records.
• Creates and maintains a climate conducive to healing by being present to patient and family, identifying and managing discomforts, and providing emotional support and education.
• Teaches needed information for self‑care and illness prevention to patient and family members.
• Recognizes and communicates to proper authority ethical and legal issues relative to patient care; completes incident reports.
• Performs all provision of care for any age‑related needs of the patients served on the unit, including growth and development principles.
• Attends meetings and serves on departmental and/or hospital committees as assigned.
• Works to support the achievement of department strategic and organizational goals.

Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing.

• 1+ year to 2 years prior acute care Registered Nurse experience.
• Minimum of one‑year recent Cath Lab Registered Nurse experience.
• Moderate sedation and pharmacology knowledge required.

• Strong communication skills – ability to read, write and understand the English language.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to problem‑solve and adapt to a changing environment.
• Ability to use information and keep abreast of developments in technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision‑making in patient care.
• Ability to work as a valued team member, but also autonomously.
• Ability to positively influence others to meet patient needs and achieve shared goals.
• Ability to effectively prioritize to provide quality and valued patient care.
• Knowledge of principles, practices and current trends in health care and hospital system organization and administration sufficient to provide clinical management, leadership, coordination, and operational direction for assigned areas of responsibility.

• Nursing / RN – Registered Nurse – State Licensure and/or Compact State Licensure required.
• Current American Heart Association Certification for Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers required.

Stanford Health Care commits to the C‑I‑CARE standards for all patients, families and staff to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery.

Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and non‑discrimination in all of its policies and practices. SHC does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, disability, or perception of the above. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and job requirements.

Generally starting at $75.42 – $92.27 per hour. The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage.