Cardiology Nurse (RN)

Cardiology Nurse (RN)

Days - Full Time Olathe Medical Pavilion C

Position Summary / Career Interest:

Hours: 7:30-5, rotating day off, no weekends. The Cardiology Rounding Nurse is responsible for coordinating and delivering high-quality, patient-centered nursing care to cardiology patients during daily inpatient rounds. This role works collaboratively with cardiologists, advanced practice providers, nursing staff, case management, and interdisciplinary teams to ensure timely assessments, care plan implementation, patient education, and safe transitions of care. The Cardiology Rounding Nurse serves as a clinical resource and advocate for patients with acute and chronic cardiovascular conditions.

Key Responsibilities: Manage a fast-paced patient load, perform triage, educate patients, support providers, coordinate testing and follow-up, and ensure smooth communication and patient flow. The Cardiology Nurse provides professional nursing care through assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation for the comfort and well-being of patients. Carries out a plan of care specific to unit competencies for the target patient population. Coordinates care delivery through collaboration with all health care team providers to ensure safe, effective and quality patient care.

Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions

• Critically evaluate emergency situations and initiate appropriate intervention; collaborates with physician for recommendations to address patient's problems or questions.
• Facilitates efficient patient workflow in clinic setting. Maintain physicians' patient list and answer consult page; collaborate with other rounding nurses, and ARNP's in triage of new admissions, consults and discharges.
• Assess and evaluate patients for discharge planning; work with care coordinator to facilitate home assessment, home care, medications, education, nutrition and follow-up.
• Follows policies/procedures regarding Amiodarone and Coumadin management and follow-up. Educates patient/family on new medication therapy.
• Reviews all labs, x-ray reports; enter data in the electronic medical record (EMR), report results and physician recommendations to patient as needed.
• Perform venipunctures and perform EKG's when necessary.
• Arrange for follow-up appointments through central scheduling and CV follow-up form.
• Communicate with appropriate outpatient cardiology staff for outpatient management.
• Support initiatives to meet appropriate length of stay and disease management outcomes; facilitate timely discharge of patients.
• Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.
• These statements are intended to describe the essential functions of the job and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities. Skills and duties may vary dependent upon your department or unit. Other duties may be assigned as required.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor Degree Nursing
• 2 or more years of RN experience.

Required Licensure and Certification

• Licensed Registered Nurse (LRN) - Multi-State - State Board of Nursing Must have current active multistate state Register Nurse (RN) license in good standing in state in which you live OR active single state RN license in good standing in the state you will be working with proof of application of a multistate RN license in the state in which you live. Staff hired prior to 2/1/2024 are required to obtain a multistate state RN license from the state in which they live at the time of their next RN license renewal by 3/31/2026.
• Basic Life Support Heartsaver (BLS HS) (Non-Clinical) - American Heart Association (AHA) within 14 days

Important Information for You to Know as You Apply:

• The health system is an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally-protected status. See also Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.
• The health system provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need to request reasonable accommodations for your disability as you navigate the recruitment process, please let our recruiters know by requesting an Accommodation Request form using this link.
• Employment with the health system is contingent upon, among other things, agreeing to the health-system-dispute-resolution-program.pdf and signing the agreement to the DRP.