Registered Nurse - GI Lab

GI Lab RN Opportunity At West Palm Beach Veterans Affairs Medical Center

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About the Facility – West Palm Beach Veterans Affairs Medical Center (WPBVAMC) The West Palm Beach VAMC offers a full range of patient care services, as well as comprehensive medical education and residency programs and limited research. The West Palm Beach VA Medical Center provides health services to veterans throughout South Florida and the Treasure Coast at its main facility in West Palm Beach and six contractor-operated community-based outpatient clinics in Boca Raton, Delray Beach, Fort Pierce, Okeechobee, Stuart, and Vero Beach.

GI Lab Responsibilities

The Procedural RN is a licensed professional who uses the best 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 bases 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.

• Must provide professional nursing care for the GI patient.
• Perform esophageal and anal/rectal manometry procedures.
• Assist physicians during EGD/Colonoscopy, Bronchoscopy/EBUS, and Cardioversion/TEE procedures.
• Maintain professional relationships with staff and physicians.
• Provide perioperative teaching, IV placement, and preparation for a procedure.
• Provide safe and effective care of the post anesthesia patient and teach discharge instructions.

GI Lab RN Requirements

• Must be a graduate of a Diploma, Bachelor or Master's program of Registered Nursing. The institution will be from a National League of Nursing (NLN) approved program.
• Must be Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certified.
• 3 years' experience as a Registered Nurse or equivalent.
• Must have a valid, unrestricted, RN License at least one state, territory, or commonwealth of the United States.

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