Job Summary:

The Registered Nurse is responsible for all standards of care and practice related to procedural sedation for Cardiac Catheterization procedures; assisting with all procedures in the Catheterization Lab involving circulating and recording procedures; management of critical patients involving mixing and administration of vasoactive drugs for intravenous and intra-coronary usage; and for monitoring patient status and comfort and ensuring optimal patient outcomes.

Licensure and Certification:

• Current CA RN license

• Current BLS and ACLS provider cards

• Certification in this specialty preferred

Education:

• Associate’s degree in Nursing (ASN) required

• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing (BSN) strongly preferred

Experience:

• Minimum 2 years’ experience in procedural sedation and nursing patient care skills or previous Cath Lab experience

• Minimum 2 years critical care experience

Knowledge and Skills:

• Ability operate the hemodynamic equipment;

• Ability to work with assessment monitoring equipment

• Ability to effectively communicate verbally and in writing

• Strong organizational skills

• Critical thinking skills

• Problem solving skills

• Basic computer skills

Physical Demands – Patient Care:

• Continuous standing/walking and occasional/intermittent sitting.
• Continuous use of bilateral upper extremities in fine motor activities requiring fingering, grasping, and forward reaching between waist and shoulder level to handle/operate medical equipment/devices.
• Frequent reaching above shoulder level and overhead.
• Frequent forward bending, twisting, squatting and kneeling; occasional climbing.
• Occasional repositioning and transferring patients weighing up to 200 pounds between bed, chair, and gurney.
• Occasional lifting and carrying equipment weighing up to 25 pounds.
• Occasional/intermittent pushing of gurneys, wheelchairs, bed and other medical equipment over tiled and carpeted surfaces.
• Continuous use of near vision to read medical equipment such as monitoring devices and reading documents and computer screens; hearing and verbal communication to interact with patients, co-workers, and other customers.