What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cardiovascular Specialty RN-Physician Practice position at Prairie Cardiovascular Consultants, Ltd.?
Overview:
Throughout communities in Illinois and Wisconsin, 15 hospitals, numerous community-based health centers and clinics, our 15,000 colleagues have built a culture based on our solid core values of respect, care, competence, and joy. These are the ideals we believe in, work by, and live each day.
Built upon more than 145 years of service to the communities we serve, we now look to the future and our place in it as a health care system that strives to continually improve processes, procedures, and outcomes with the latest and most advanced technologies and treatments.
Regardless of how far our passion for excellence carries us, our focus will always remain on the most important person in our entire organization: The patient.
HSHS requires COVID-19 vaccines or an approved medical or religious exemption for all colleagues.
HSHS and affiliates is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE).
HSHS is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.
Summary:
Promotes and restores patients' health by collaborating with cardiovascular specialty physicians and multidisciplinary team members, providing physical and psychological support to patients and their families in structural heart, cardiovascular/cardiothoracic surgery, or electrophysiology sub-specialties. Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals, teaching patient, friends, and family to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills, and answering questions regarding highly complex healthcare topics. Assures quality of care by adhering to guideline driven practices, measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards, making or recommending necessary adjustments, and following nursing philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations.
Qualifications:
Education
Diploma or associates degree in nursing is required.
Bachelor’s degree in nursing is preferred.
Experience
2 years nursing experience is required.
1 year critical care, specialty cardiac nursing, cath lab, or general cardiology practice is required.Experience with complex duties involving Electrophysiology (EP) or device interrogation/interpretation/management, pulling chest tubes/packing wires, pacemaker or defibrillator checks, wound care experience is preferred.
Anti-arrhythmic pharmaceutical management experience is preferred.Knowledge of electrophysiology or structural heart therapies: Watchman, TAVR, MitraClip; Extra vascular internal cardiac defibrillators; Atrioventricular micra wireless permanent pacemakers; EBR system wireless left ventricular lead placement is preferred.
Certifications, Licenses and Registrations
Licensed as a Registered Nurse (RN) in the state of practice is required.
Wisconsin: RNs may practice with a valid multi-state RN license as outlined in the Nurse Licensure Compact rules.
Basic Life Support (BLS) is required.
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) is required.
Throughout communities in Illinois and Wisconsin, 15 hospitals, numerous community-based health centers and clinics, our 15,000 colleagues have built a culture based on our solid core values of respect, care, competence, and joy. These are the ideals we believe in, work by, and live each day.
Built upon more than 145 years of service to the communities we serve, we now look to the future and our place in it as a health care system that strives to continually improve processes, procedures, and outcomes with the latest and most advanced technologies and treatments.
Regardless of how far our passion for excellence carries us, our focus will always remain on the most important person in our entire organization: The patient.
HSHS requires COVID-19 vaccines or an approved medical or religious exemption for all colleagues.
HSHS and affiliates is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE).
HSHS is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce.
Summary:
Promotes and restores patients' health by collaborating with cardiovascular specialty physicians and multidisciplinary team members, providing physical and psychological support to patients and their families in structural heart, cardiovascular/cardiothoracic surgery, or electrophysiology sub-specialties. Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals, teaching patient, friends, and family to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills, and answering questions regarding highly complex healthcare topics. Assures quality of care by adhering to guideline driven practices, measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards, making or recommending necessary adjustments, and following nursing philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations.
Qualifications:
Education
Diploma or associates degree in nursing is required.
Bachelor’s degree in nursing is preferred.
Experience
2 years nursing experience is required.
1 year critical care, specialty cardiac nursing, cath lab, or general cardiology practice is required.Experience with complex duties involving Electrophysiology (EP) or device interrogation/interpretation/management, pulling chest tubes/packing wires, pacemaker or defibrillator checks, wound care experience is preferred.
Anti-arrhythmic pharmaceutical management experience is preferred.Knowledge of electrophysiology or structural heart therapies: Watchman, TAVR, MitraClip; Extra vascular internal cardiac defibrillators; Atrioventricular micra wireless permanent pacemakers; EBR system wireless left ventricular lead placement is preferred.
Certifications, Licenses and Registrations
Licensed as a Registered Nurse (RN) in the state of practice is required.
Wisconsin: RNs may practice with a valid multi-state RN license as outlined in the Nurse Licensure Compact rules.
Basic Life Support (BLS) is required.
Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) is required.
Salary : $72,700 - $92,100