Registered Nurse - Cath Lab

BSWHJP00006345 Description: Temp to Perm: N Travel (Y/N): Yes Length of Assignment: 13-week assignment Work Location: Fort Worth TX Work

4 10-hour shifts Monday- Friday (40 hours total)

AM On Call: No Float or Weekend

No Interview Type: Virtual - 1 round of interview Specialty : Cardiac Cath Lab Certification/Degree

BSN ACLS/BLS Top

1 year of EP/Electrophysiology Lab required Scrub Color: hospital provided Patient ratio (if applicable) No Last Updated: 07/18/2022JOB SUMMARYThe 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 based on responses to health problems 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 any 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. RN job is to be used for RNs in hospital inpatient and outpatient departments with 24X7 staffing which include those departments with on-call staffing on the off shifts.

Examples of hospital inpatient and outpatient procedural areas: GI Lab Pain Management Dialysis Infusion Centers and IV Services.

of the ROLEClinical 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 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 with patient and family 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 such as culture spiritual beliefs gender race ethnicity lifestyle 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 and represents their concerns.

Creates an individualized plan that accurately 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 members of the health care team and community integrating appropriate education throughout the continuum of care to help them participate and/or make informed decisions about their health care and treatments including health promotion and disease prevention.

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. Open and sensitive to all team members' unique 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. Recognizes that resources are limited and considers factors related to safety effectiveness and efficiency in planning and delivering patient care.

Professionalism: Improves nursing practice and the work environment through participating in shared governance and decision-making processes and meaningfully recognizing the contributions of others. Participates in the staffing process from education and planning to evaluation. Identifies personal goals and commits to ongoing professional growth through continuing education networking with professional colleagues membership and involvement in professional nursing organizations self-study professional reading certification and seeking advanced degrees.

Contributes to the professional development of peers colleagues and others. Demonstrates commitment to community service. KEY SUCCESS FACTORSKnowledge 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 effects and possible adverse reactions.

Knowledge of medical and professional nursing ethics and patient privacy rights. Must be able to communicate thoughts clearly both verbally and in writing. Interpersonal skills to interact with a wide-range of constituencies.

Must have critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Ability to observe changes in the medical condition of patients and effectively communicate these changes to other nursing staff members and physicians/providers. Ability to provide age-specific quality patient-centered care to all patients through the nursing process and standards of nursing practice with sensitivity and respect for the diversity of human experience and to develop evaluate implement and as necessary modify a patient care plan to meet the needs of individual patients.

General computer skills including but not limited to: Microsoft Office information security scheduling and payroll systems electronic medical documentation and email. The information contained in this job description is intended to describe the essential job functions required of those assigned to this job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties knowledge skills and abilities needed to perform the job.

Please note that management retains the right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. The ability to competently perform all the essential duties of the position with or without reasonable accommodation demonstrated commitment to effective customer service delivery integrity and the ability to work productively as a member of a team or work group are basic requirements of all positions at Baylor Scott & White Health.

Enable Skills-Based Hiring No Qualification Assessment Must Have Competency 2+ YRS Yes Degree GAP Yes License ACLS No BLS (AHA Only) Yes RN Yes Is this a travel position Yes Specialty/Unit Cath Lab Shift AM Region Heart Hospital Region