RN Cardiac Cath Lab

Cardiac Catheterization Nurse

City/State: White Plains, New York

Department: Ancillary Cardiac Catherization

Work Shift: Day

Work Days: MON-FRI, VARIED HOURS

Scheduled Hours: Hours Vary

Hours Per Pay Period: 46.5

Pay Rate/Range: $60.80 - $78.20

Job Summary Provides specialized nursing care to patients undergoing diagnostic and interventional cardiovascular procedures in the cardiac catheterization laboratory, ensuring patient safety and high-quality clinical outcomes throughout all phases of care. Collaborates with physicians and multidisciplinary healthcare teams to assess, monitor, educate, and support patients before, during, and after procedures while responding effectively to emergency situations and maintaining compliance with hospital policies and regulatory standards.

Essential Functions

• Understands and adheres to the WPH Performance Standards, Policies and Behaviors.
• Provides respectful care for all patients that allows for and promotes mutual respect, shared decision making and informed consent all the time while respecting a patient's autonomy and dignity regardless of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender identity, religion, language, or any other protected group status.
• Utilizes the nursing process to meet the age specific needs of the patient in all aspects of care: biophysical, psychosocial, education, safety/ environment, and discharge planning
• Utilizes appropriate steps in the decision-making process to include recognition and priority setting related to patient care and unit-based issues. Addresses issues with appropriate actions
• Administers blood and blood products according to policy
• Collaborates and communicates with the interdisciplinary health care team
• Integrates patient rights and nursing ethics into work practice
• Adheres to infection control standards to reduce the risk of nosocomial infections to patient and staff.
• Adheres to the tenets of the Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals
• Delegates activities to ancillary staff as it relates to the State Nurse Practice Act
• Adheres to the ANA Code of Nursing Ethics & Scope and Standards of Nursing Practice
• Supports, promotes, and practices within the WPH Professional Nursing Practice Model
• Sustains and advances the Magnet model
• Participates in the Performance Improvement initiatives
• Completes competency requirements
• Attends mandatory in-services
• Attends staff meetings as required/requested
• Utilizes cost containment practices
• Assumes Charge Nurse responsibility
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Qualifications

• BSN Required or
• MSN
• 1-3 years of acute care nursing preferably stepdown, critical care, or procedural nursing Preferred
• Understanding of cardiovascular anatomy, hemodynamics, cardiac procedures, arrhythmia recognition, sterile technique, radiation safety, and emergency interventions. (Medium proficiency)
• Must possess critical thinking, patient assessment and monitoring, IV skills and IV medication administration (High proficiency)
• Strong communication skills and rapid response in high pressure situations (High proficiency)
• Registered Nurse New York - New York State Board of Nursing Upon Hire Required
• ACLS Advanced Cardiac Life Support - American Heart Association Newly hired experienced RNs must have ACLS within 6 months of hire within 180 Days Required
• BLS Basic Life Support - American Heart Association Upon Hire Required

White Plains Hospital Medical Center is an equal employment opportunity employer. White Plains Hospital Medical Center will recruit, hire, train, transfer, promote, layoff and discharge associates in all job classifications without regard to their race, color, religion, creed, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, gender, actual or presumed disability, history of disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, pregnancy, military status, marital status, or partnership status, or any other characteristic protected by law.