Cardio Thoracic ICU

Creating Life Better Here Starts With You

At San Juan Regional Medical Center, we're more than a healthcare providerwe're a values-driven organization dedicated to delivering exceptional care. As a team member, you help fulfill our mission to make life better here for our community.

The Cardio-Pulmonary Resource Nurse is responsible for creating a safe, productive, and patient-centered experience during cardiopulmonary procedures. They are responsible for creating a caring professional environment for the patient, family, and physician. The Cardiopulmonary Resource Nurse will facilitate and guide the growth of the patient by providing timely, compassionate, and appropriate teaching and reinforcement. They provide the nursing experience and knowledge base to complement and enable the other team members in performance of their duties.

Required Behaviors:

• As you go about fulfilling this mission, your work habits and work relationships should embody SJRMC's values. These values are our culture, our identity as an organization: Sacred Trust, Personal Reverence, Thoughtful Anticipation, Team Accountability, and Creative Vitality. Ask more of us than merely completing some list of tasks. Our values ask for a deeper level of commitment, and what is asked of us we freely give because we believe in our mission.

Required Qualifications:

• NM State Nursing Licensing
• BLS Certification
• Complete all assigned EKG modules through Health Stream within one year of hire date

Preferred Qualifications:

• ACLS Certification (required within six (6) months of transfer/hire)

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for pre procedural arrangements with Nursing floors and the outpatients in regard to scheduled procedure time, transportation, and instructions
• Maintain continuity of patient care through communication with other healthcare team members
• Responsible for receiving patients and admitting, periodic, and discharge vital signs per department policy
• Utilizes assessment skills to help plan an approach of individualized care to each patient and provide safe patient care during pre, intra, and post procedure
• Responsible for IV access prior to the procedure; all prerequisite medical intervention will be administered according to nursing protocol policy and physicians orders
• Responsible for teaching pre procedure and discharge instructions
• Communicate an attitude of concern to the patient and family through active listening, responding to the needs communicated and giving feedback
• Responsible for assisting in procedure set up of equipment, assisting with the procedure, and clean up of equipment
• Responsible for proper and accurate documentation stated by department policy of care given and is responsible for patient records and procedure charges
• EKG/ Holter monitoring: The tech will obtain complete and reproducible diagnostically accurate EKGS and Holter tests. They will have a thorough knowledge of EKG rhythm interpretation. They will be able to recognize and troubleshoot common artifacts. They will be able to recognize hemodynamically significant arrhythmias (critical values).
• The Cardiopulmonary Resource Nurse is responsible for adhering to department policy concerning infection control and maintains aseptic laboratory skills.
• The Cardiopulmonary Resource Nurse is responsible for respecting culture diversity, employing interpreters when needed, note and accommodate hearing and visual impaired patients. The nurse will include family and significant others in patient care, planning education, use age-appropriate teaching when needed, advocate patient rights as needed, understand age-related physiological difference and can implement age-appropriate therapeutic interventions, interact professional with co-workers and promote interdepartmental teamwork

Stress Testing:

• Obtain complete and reproducible diagnostically accurate cardiac stress exams
• Have a thorough knowledge of cardiovascular anatomy and physiology
• Understand the essentials of EKG interpretation and be able to differentiate artifacts from real data
• Be able to identify and troubleshoot suboptimal EKG tracings
• Be able to identify potentially life threatening arrhythmias and implement appropriate interventions
• Coordinate the stress test with other team members
• Provide pre and post procedural teaching and instructions

EKG/ Holter Monitoring:

• Obtain complete and reproducible diagnostically accurate EKGS and Holter tests
• Have a thorough knowledge of EKG rhythm interpretation
• Recognize and troubleshoot common artifacts
• Recognize hemodynamically significant arrhythmias (critical values)
• Responsible for adhering to department policy concerning infection control and maintains aseptic laboratory skills
• Responsible respecting culture diversity, employing interpreters when needed, note and accommodate hearing and visual impaired patients
• Include family and significant others in patient care, planning education, use age appropriate teaching when needed, advocate patient rights as needed, understand age-related physiological difference and can implement age-appropriate therapeutic interventions
• Interact professional with co-workers and promote interdepartmental teamwork
• Each employee is responsible for implementing SJRMCs Service Standards into their daily work: Safety, Courtesy, Effectiveness, and Stewardship

Physical Demands and Environmental Work Conditions:

• Recognize that potential exposure to blood borne pathogens and/or hazardous materials, noxious/irritating fumes, long hours, and unforeseen conditions that might generate stress may be encountered
• Recognize that physical demands such as extensive walking, standing, lifting, positioning, pushing, and or transferring of patients may be required
• Correctible visual and auditory acuity is required to ensure patient safety