Travel Nurse RN – Cath Lab – $2,747 per week in Lakewood, CO

Job Description

Job Title: Cath Lab Specialist
Profession: RN
Specialty: Cath Lab
Duration: 13 weeks
Shift: 10h Day Shift
Hours per Shift: 10 hours (7:00am – 5:30pm)
Experience: Minimum of one year experience in Cath Lab, EP Study, and Structural Procedures
License: State RN license or RN license from a participating state in the NLC
Certifications: American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)
Must-Have: Experience using Impella, Balloon Pump, Shockwave, CSI, and Laser devices; experience with administering emergency drugs and moderate sedation

Description:
Assess patient’s physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs through observation, interview, review of medical records, and clinical data.
Evaluate patient’s response and intervene to ensure optimal patient outcomes.
Develop and implement patient plan of care and observe outcomes in accordance with nursing standards and in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
Demonstrate competency in a variety of therapeutic and diagnostic interventions including but not limited to IVs, incision/wound care, medication administration, catheterization, and specimen collections.
Promote, advocate, and collaborate to protect the health, safety, and rights of each patient.
Provide patient and family education through assessment of patient/family learning readiness, needs, and abilities.
Provide teaching and evaluate the effectiveness of teaching.
Recognize the patient or designee as a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for the patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
Provide relationship-based care in which the nurse strives to understand what is most important to the individual and actively engage them in all aspects of care.
Deliver care with respect for cultural differences and the diversity of human experience.
Delegate to non-RN personnel in accordance with state regulations and hospital policy.
Effectively use time, personnel, equipment, and supplies to provide high-quality, cost-effective patient care.
Serve as a professional role model for all staff, demonstrating ethical, legal, and professional nursing processes.
Manage resources and patient flow through matching nursing competencies with individualized patient and unit needs.
Use standards of care, hospital policies, and regulatory guidelines to guide practice.
Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
Precept or mentor new staff or nursing students as needed.
Seek learning opportunities and continuing education.
Seek experiences that reflect current practice to maintain skills and competence in clinical practice or role performance.
Maintain professional records that provide evidence of competency and lifelong learning.
Evaluate one’s own integrity and nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines.
Take action to achieve goals identified during the evaluation process.
Demonstrate a commitment to the organization through ongoing participation in hospital and unit-based meetings.
Verbalize an understanding of the value of measurement and the importance of continuous quality improvement data.
Use quality measures to improve performance and accountability for patient outcomes, patient experiences, and safe delivery of care.
Participate in unit-based quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and research activities.
Use current healthcare research findings and other evidence to expand clinical knowledge, enhance role performance, and increase knowledge of professional issues.
Floating may be required to any identified location within sixty miles of the original assignment.
Float assignments may include duties outside of original assignment job requirements in accordance with policy.