Registered Nurse - Cardiology w/BONUS

Registered Nurse - Cardiology

We have a new opening for a Registered Nurse - Cardiology at Nellis AFB in North Las Vegas, NV.

Duties:

• Collaborate with other healthcare professionals in the provision of patient care.
• Facilitate the achievement of optimal outcomes in relation to clinical care, quality and cost effectiveness.
• Ensure compliance with standards of care and practice in accordance with all established policies, procedures, and guidelines used in the facility.
• Perform physical exam and health assessments.
• Provide health promotions, counseling, and individualized patient teaching on appropriate topics to include preventative healthcare and health maintenance.
• Administer medications, assist with cardiac stress tests (exercise stress tests, nuclear stress tests, and stress echocardiograms) and other personalized interventions.
• Care provided in coordination with other healthcare professionals.
• Recognize adverse signs and symptoms and quickly react in emergency situations.
• Communicate and collaborate with a diverse group of people for the purpose of informing the healthcare team of plans/actions, for teaching/education to benefit the patient/family and organization.
• Make referral appointments and arrange specialty care as needed.
• Assists the coordination of procedural testing such as coronary CTA, cardiac catheterization, cardiac electrophysiology and device procedures, and advanced echocardiographic studies.
• Supports ambulatory ECG ordering, scheduling, data/information download into the Cardiovascular Picture Archival Communication System (CVPACS).
• Helps ensure adequate order reconciliation within the CVPACS.
• Perform nursing services identified in the unit.
• Assists with patient check-ins, admissions, discharges, and transfers as needed.
• Completes intake forms completely and ensures the medication history and historical reconciliations are both complete and accurate.
• Conduct research in support of improved practice and patient care.
• Assist with other duties in the cardiology, vascular, and pulmonary clinic as assigned by unit leadership.
• Assist with other departments at the direction of the Medical Group or Flight.
• Establishes and maintains appropriate, professional, interpersonal relationships with co-workers, families, peers, and other team members.
• Ensures a safe work environment and employee safe work habits.
• Support administrative roles in the clinic to include but not limited to:
• Educate and train new Cardiopulmonary Clinic nurses.
• Assist in maintaining cardiopulmonary clinic programs such as peer reviews, peer expert, Competency Assessment Folders (CAF), etc.

Schedule:

Monday - Friday Daily shifts will be assigned as either 8 or 10-hour durations to meet clinic and patient care demands. All shifts include a 60-minute uncompensated lunch break.

• 8-hour shifts are typically scheduled from 7:30am - 4:30pm.
• 10-hour shifts are typically scheduled between the core hours of 6:00am - 6:00pm.

Schedule Management: The specific shift assignment is determined by the Government supervisor.

No Holidays/No Weekends/No Call

Schedule Flexibility: To accommodate duties such as staff meetings and teaching classes, daily start and end times are flexible and will be set with the approval of the Government supervisor.