RN Electrophysiology Lab 1st Shift Edgewood
St. Elizabeth Healthcare Covington, KY (Onsite) Full-Time
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Job Description
The EP Lab RN is a health care professional that, through the utilization of specialized equipment and under the direction of a qualified Electrophysiologist/Cardiologist, performs procedures on adult patients resulting in accurate diagnosis and/or optimal treatment of congenital or acquired heart arrthymias and implantations of devices while maintaining maximum patient safety and comfort.
Demonstrate respect, dignity, kindness and empathy in each encounter with all patients, families, visitors and other employees regardless of cultural background.
Job Duties
• Provides patient care, patient/family education, patient monitoring, and drug administration in the EP lab (pre, intra and post procedure) under the direction of a Electrophysiologist/Cardiologist to ensure patient safety and outcomes.
• Performs/reviews and documents a pre-procedural patient assessment to obtain adequate information, communicate pertinent data to MD, and promote positive outcomes for patient.
• Evaluates patient response to medications during device implantations and EP studies.
• Acts as first assistant during diagnostic and therapeutic EP studies and ablations procedures to assure completeness of case. Acts as first assistant with device implantations
• Maintain a thorough knowledge of the operation and maintenance of diagnostic and therapeutic equipment and products used for procedures to ensure its' accuracy and safety.
• Assist in the development of performance improvement activities in the EP lab, to include ideas, data collection, data analysis and implementing change to ensure best practice in the EP lab. Maintains accurate implantable device data base.
• Assist in the education process of new employees, mentors students and other healthcare professionals observing in the EP lab
• Must be able to perform above duties based on "population served" standards /competencies to include age-specific and diverse patient types.
Qualifications
Education, Credentials, Licenses:
Must be RN Licensed in state where work is being performed
ACLS certification
CPR certification
Specialized Knowledge:
ECG rhythm interpretation
Knowledge of critical care medications
Kind and Length of Experience:
Two years critical care nursing experience.
Recommended Skills
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (Acls)
• Cpr
• Critical Care
• Data Analysis
• Data Collection
• Databases
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