Cardiac Cath Lab Staff Registered Nurse- 40hr Days

Join The BILH Team

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you're making a difference in people's lives.

Join The Cath Lab Team At Lahey Hospital

$10,000 ELIGIBLE SIGN-ON BONUS

Join the Cath Lab Team at Lahey Hospital Lahey Hospital, part of Beth Israel Lahey Health (BILH), is a 335-bed Level I trauma center with a dynamic and high-volume STEMI program. Our cardiac catheterization lab performs approximately 4,000 procedures annually, including over 1,000 percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs), making us one of the region's busiest and most advanced interventional cardiology centers.

Our team is made up of experienced and passionate Registered Nurses, Radiologic Technologists, and Scrub Technicians who collaborate to deliver high-quality care. We work ten-hour shifts (7:00 AM 5:30 PM) and rotate on-call responsibilities during weeknights, weekends, and holidays.

As a Cath Lab team member, you take the leadprioritizing, coordinating, and delegating patient care throughout procedures. You are autonomous in your practice and thrive in a fast-paced, high-acuity setting.

You'll work side-by-side with a multidisciplinary team, including physicians, to ensure each patient receives safe, efficient, and compassionate care. You'll monitor patients, circulate during procedures, and provide moderate sedation.

We care for individuals with complex cardiovascular and peripheral vascular disease, and our structural heart program is rapidly expanding, offering cutting-edge procedures such as TAVR, MitraClip, TriClip, and PFO/ASD closure.

You bring curiosity and drive to the roleexcited to learn and continuously expand your knowledge in the ever-evolving world of interventional cardiology.

If you're ready to grow your career in a supportive, innovative, and high-performing environment, we want to hear from you. Join us. Make an impact. Be a part of something bigger at Lahey's Cath Lab.

Requirements

Active Massachusetts Nursing License BLS ACLS Preferred: 2+ years of nursing experience Current or recent critical care/ICU and ER experience Any cath lab experience

Under the general supervision of the Nurse Manager/Assistant Nurse Manager/Tertiary Team Leader, the Staff Registered Nurse: Tertiary Care practices within the Lahey Clinic Professional Practice Model, MA Nurse Practice Act, ANA Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics and demonstrates Lahey Clinic's core values that reflect its Mission. The nurse-patient/family relationship, continuity of care and accountability are central to the delivery of individualized high quality patient care.

A Staff Registered Nurse: Tertiary Care demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide expected standards of care based on physical, psychosocial, cultural, educational, spiritual, safety and age-appropriate considerations of patients.

The Staff Registered Nurse: Tertiary Care, in accordance with the Nurse Practice Act of Massachusetts Rules & Regulations- 244 CMR 3.0, shall bear full and ultimate responsibility for the quality of nursing care he/she provides to individuals and groups. Included in such responsibility are health maintenance, teaching, counseling, collaborative planning and restoration of optimal functioning and comfort or for the dignified death of those they serve. The Staff Registered Nurse: Tertiary Care assumes the responsibility for the plan of care and has the authority to make decisions and is held accountable for decisions specific to assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of the plan. The registered nurse facilitates the coordination of care across the continuum and demonstrates safe practice within the domains of:

• Clinical judgment and decision making
• Professional relationships
• Clinical leadership
• Clinical scholarship

A responsibility and function of the Staff Registered Nurse: Tertiary Care includes Delegation & Supervision in accordance with the Nurse Practice Act of Massachusetts Rules & Regulations- 244 CMR 3.0 Registered Nurse and Licensed Practical Nurse: Board of Registration in Nursing and the ANA Principles of Delegation. The delegating registered nurse at Lahey Clinic bears the full and ultimate responsibility that includes but is not limited to:

• Making an appropriate assignment
• Properly and adequately teaching, directing and supervising the delegate
• The outcome of the delegation

The Staff Registered Nurse: Tertiary Care provides care directly to patients and in collaboration with other health care team members. The Staff Registered Nurse: Tertiary Care maintains a current level of knowledge and skill with technical procedures as defined by nursing specialty organization, complies with all regulations and standards of regulatory and accrediting bodies, and is currently licensed in the state of Massachusetts as a registered nurse.

Job Description

Essential Duties & Responsibilities: including but not limited to:

I. Clinical Judgment and Decision Making: Ways in which nurses come to understand the problems, issues or concerns of patients/families, to attend to relevant/critical information, and to respond in concerned and involved ways.

A. The Staff Registered Nurse: Tertiary Care is expected to and is accountable for providing safe patient care by demonstrating organizational skills that maintain and coordinate safe delivery of quality care for assigned patients/families.

Develops a culturally competent plan of care that identifies patient problems, expected outcomes, and addresses preventative measures.

B. Performs systematic patient and family assessment relevant to practice settings.

C. Delivers care that is specific to the age of the patient.

D. Evaluates effectiveness of care and adapts plan based on patient/family response.

II. Professional Relationship: The professional relationship is based upon Lahey Clinic's guiding principles and positive effective communication. This relationship extends beyond formal assessment to integrate the particular patient's response and his/her religious/spiritual, ethnic and cultural beliefs into the plan of care.

A. Establishes professional relationship with nurses, physicians and other colleagues and patients and families.

The relationship includes the patient and family as a partner in care and is based upon Swanson's Theory of Caring.

B. Educates the patient and family about the patient's illness and treatment including preventative measures appropriate to the patient.

C. Supports Lahey Clinics commitment to community based activities both within the Lahey community and beyond.

III. Clinical Leadership: The Staff Registered Nurse: Tertiary Care supports the development of others and creates a practice climate of responsiveness and learning based on Benner's Novice to Expert skills acquisition model. This supports the retention and recruitment of clinically competent nurses. The ability to lead and influence the reasoning of colleagues in the patient's best interest depends on skillful comportment, authoritative clinical knowledge and wisdom, the conviction to act as an ethical agent despite adverse consequences, and the ability to listen and enhance others' strengths.

A. Demonstrates professional behavior by adhering to unit policies and procedures, practice guidelines specific to the setting and the ANA Code of Ethics.

B. Demonstrates skills as a responsive team member.

C. Demonstrates role of nurse as teacher.

D. Demonstrate ability to fulfill role in Regulatory compliance and readiness.

IV. Clinical Scholarship: The Staff Registered Nurse: Tertiary Care achieves clinical scholarship through experiences with patients, through collaboration with colleagues and leadership and through formal education. Learning is transformed into knowledge through self-reflection and analysis.

A. Upholds standards of quality nursing care.

B. Demonstrates a commitment to life long learning.

C. Demonstrates evidenced based practice (EBP) in nursing.

Organizational Requirements:

Incorporates Lahey Clinic Guiding Principles, Mission Statement, and Goals into daily activities.

Complies with all Lahey Clinic Policies.

Complies with behavioral expectations of the department and Lahey Clinic.

Maintains courteous and effective interactions with colleagues and patients.

Demonstrates an understanding of the job description, performance expectations, and competency assessment.

Demonstrates a commitment toward meeting and exceeding the needs of our customers and consistently adheres to Customer Service standards.

Participates in departmental and/or interdepartmental quality improvement activities.

Participates in and successfully completes Mandatory Education.

Performs all other duties as needed or directed to meet the needs of the department.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education: Graduate of a state approved and/or accredited School of Nursing

Licensure, Certification, Registration:

Current license to practice professional nursing from the Massachusetts Board of Registration

BLS certification from American Heart Association or American Red