Travel Nurse RN - Cardiac Catheterization Lab - $2,400 per week in Paducah, KY

Registered Nurse (RN) | Cardiac Catheterization Lab
Location: Paducah, KY
Agency: Mindlance Health
Pay: $2,400 per week
Shift Information: Days - 4 days x 10 hours
Contract Duration: 13 Weeks
Start Date: 6/22/2026

About the Position

"Job Summary: The RN implements professional nursing practice centered on the patient as a whole person and the creation of a caring environment focused on healing and wellness. Nursing practices are based on evidence and current research as well as hospital and department policies and procedures, regulatory standards, and professional guidelines. Clinical decision-making incorporates all four phases of the nursing process, critical thinking, and creativity. Nursing excellence is promoted through helping relationships among nursing staff and across other disciplines. Coordinating, ensuring, and providing direct patient care activities on the unit through: provision of nursing rounds, assessments, and treatments; facilitating admission, transfer, and discharge activities; provision of patient and family-centered education; care coordination and individualized treatment planning as applicable, etc. Job Responsibilities: -Assessment of Patient’s Needs -Performs and documents a comprehensive assessment in accordance with RNs’ scope of practice and hospital policies/procedures. -Considers the patient’s culture, age and developmental level. -Identifies patient risk factors and presenting complaint. -Obtains patient health information from family or others as necessary. -Collects objective/quantitative and subjective/qualitative data. -Verifies initial admission assessment, if obtained by other members of the healthcare team. -Develops a problem list, prioritizing patient needs based on input from the inter-professional team as appropriate. -Design actions and interventions relevant to patient’s culture and age. -Determines desired outcomes in coordination with patient and family in accordance with medical plan of care. -Fully implements patient care therapies and procedures with empowerment and clinical autonomy within scope of practice in accordance with established policies, procedures, professional guidelines, culture, and age of patient served. -Explains procedures, treatments and processes to patient and family. -Initiates action to alleviate patient’s stress and discomfort. -Recognizes, responds to, and communicates changes in patient condition appropriately. -Conducts and documents ongoing assessment and response to procedures and therapies using nursing process according to hospital policy, established standards, culture and age of patient served. -Delegates task appropriately and oversee team members in the performance of activities regarding patient care. -Monitor’s accuracy and completeness of delegated patient care provided by other team members in implementation of plan of care. -Identifies and addresses educational needs of patients related to prioritized problems according to level of comprehension. -Facilitates patient discharge process by executing discharge orders in a timely manner, identifying potential discharges, assuring the performance of discharge teaching and coordination of plan with Case Management and others as indicated. -Provides input into patient/nurse assignments in consideration of available staffing, unit activity and patient acuity. -Demonstrates active participation in unit-based activities in support of organizational values/priorities. -Promotes a positive group dynamic and healing environment through words and actions. -Assures nursing excellence in accordance with accepted standards, evidence -based practice, current research, and caring philosophy. -Actively participates in department and/or unit quality improvement activities and core measures such as, but not limited to, patient satisfaction, patient falls, pressure ulcers, CAUTIs, auditing and monitoring of documentation. -Uses a holistic perspective regarding patient care. null " "Required Education: -ADN or ASN. Preferred Education: -BSN Required Certifications & Licensure: -Active, unrestricted Registered Nurse (RN) license in the applicable state. -BLS Preferred Certifications & Licensure: -N/A null "

Requirements

Required for Onboarding

• ACLS
• BLS
• Cardiac Cath Lab RN Exam
• Cath Lab RN Skills Checklist
• Core Exam - Nursing
• Ishihara Colorvision Screening