Job Description
Strong staffing Support when it matters most. Technology and tools that streamline patient monitoring and communication to help you work more efficiently. Robust supply chains to keep you fully equipped. Ongoing clinical education to improve your skills. As a Registered Nurse at St. David's Round Rock Medical Center, you’ll have all the staffing support, technology and resources you need to deliver safe, high-quality care—so you can focus on what you do best.
Job Summary and Qualifications
The EP Lab Registered Nurse, under the direction of the Cath Lab Supervisor, Cardiovascular Manager, and Cardiovascular services director, is responsible for professional nursing care and related assistance to adult and geriatric patients with a broad range of illnesses, admission/assessment of patients, medication administration, direct and indirect patient care, circulating diagnostic and interventional cases, scrubbing diagnostic/interventional procedures, and procedure documentation/hemodynamic monitoring. Other departmental duties as assigned, such as: ordering supplies/maintaining inventory, providing appropriate information towards future needs and actively supports process improvement within the Cardiovascular Department. The RN maintains an active marketing profile for the facility/physicians and maintains professional standards and seeks professional growth. The RN practices in accordance with organizational medical staff directives, philosophy, goals, and objectives of the Cardiovascular Department and the Heart Hospital of Austin at Round Rock Medical Center.
What you will do:
- Manage the patient with suspected/documented history of cardiac disease undergoing diagnostic/interventional procedures.
- Complete and document assessment appropriate to Age/patient condition.
- Reassess and document patient condition according to policy and patient condition
- Administer medications; monitor and document response
- Monitor patient’s overall status throughout pre, during, and post-procedure care
- Immediately communicates patient changes to physician.
- Demonstrate proficiency in managing patients with a potentially life-threatening dysrhythmia or hemodynamic change via a physician order by using medications and emergency equipment including but not limited to:
- Defibrillator, Dopamine, NTG, IABP, Ventilator
- Explain procedure to patient and assess patients understanding prior to start of procedure
- Enter patient demographic data
- Adhere to radiation safety precautions
- Safely defibrillate, cardiovert and pace using pacer-defibrillator
- Serve as liaison between patient, physician and other departments to optimize patient care and efficiency
- Schedule procedures correctly, including entering reservations
- Proficiently use Meditech to retrieve pertinent patient data
- Monitor patients in CPRU as designated by Supervisor
- Enter charges into Meditech as required
- Assist with department PI activities as assigned
- Assist with orientation for new employees and students as assigned
- Maintain Narcotic count on a daily basis with adherence to hospital policies
- Perform TEE, CVN, Dobutamine Stress Echo, Bubble Studies, and other studies with/under the supervision of a physician in CPRU or other units as required.
What qualifications you will need:
- Advanced Cardiac Life Spt must be obtained within 6 months of employment start date
- Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
- NIH Stroke Scale must be obtained within 90 days of employment start date
- (RN) Registered Nurse
- Associate Degree
- 1 years experience Required Years of Experience
2. Demonstrate ability to use equipment within Cath Lab
3. Perform functions to support departmental operations.
Benefits
St. David's Round Rock Medical Center, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
- Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
- Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
- Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
- Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
- Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
- Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts
Learn more about Employee Benefits
Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location
St. David’s Round Rock Medical Center is a 200+ bed acute-care facility located north of Austin, Texas. This comprehensive medical center features the only hybrid operating room in the county, a 24-hour emergency department with a Level II trauma center, and leading-edge cardiac care through the Heart Hospital of Austin at St. David’s Round Rock. Patients may also receive care related to rehabilitation services, women’s services, cancer care, neurology, joint replacement and orthotics, and more when visiting this facility.
St. David’s Round Rock Medical Center is part of St. David’s HealthCare, which is one of the largest healthcare systems in Texas and the third-largest employer in the Austin area. St. David’s HealthCare was formed through a unique partnership between HCA Healthcare and two local non-profits — St. David’s Foundation and Georgetown Health Foundation.
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in costs for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
"Nurses are essential to the delivery of healthcare and serve as its foundation. At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to equipping nurses with the tools and resources they need to deliver exceptional patient care, championing the profession, and supporting the advancement of nursing’s future."
Erica Rossitto, MBA/HCM, BSN, RN, NEA-BC
Senior Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive
HCA Healthcare
If growth and continued learning is important to you, we encourage you to apply for our Registered Nurse EP Lab opening. Our team will promptly review your application. Highly qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Unlock the possibilities apply today!
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Round Rock, TX |
| Industry | Healthcare Services |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1968 |
| Website | http://hcahealthcare.com/ |
About Company
At its founding in 1968, Nashville-based HCA was one of the nation's first hospital companies. Today, we are the nation's leading provider of healthcare services, a company comprised of locally managed facilities that includes about 165 hospitals and 115 freestanding surgery centers in 20 states and England and employing approximately 204,000 people. Approximately four to five percent of all inpatient care delivered in the country today is provided by HCA facilities. Richard M. Bracken serves as Chairman of HCA and R. Milton Johnson is the company's President and Chief Executive Officer.
HCA is committed to the care and improvement of human life and strives to deliver high quality, cost effective healthcare in the communities we serve. Building on the foundation provided by our Mission & Values, HCA puts patients first and works to constantly improve the care we give them by implementing measures that support our caregivers, help ensure patient safety and provide the highest possible quality. Investing in our communities is important to us. HCA typically invests about $1.5 billion annually to keep our facilities modern and up-to-date technologically and to expand and add services where needed. Focusing primarily on communities where the company is a leading healthcare provider, HCA selectively adds new facilities in order to better serve our communities.
And because two HCA founders were physicians, we value highly the strong relationships we've created with local physicians. We endeavor to provide them with a wide array of services and modern facilities in order to help them deliver the best possible care.
Skills
- Acute Careunmatched
- Banking Servicesunmatched
- Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS)unmatched
- Behavioral Healthunmatched
- Business Administrationunmatched
- Cancerunmatched
- Cardiologyunmatched
- Cardiovascularunmatched
- Catheterization Laboratoryunmatched
- Cerebral Vascular Accidentunmatched
- Data Entryunmatched
- Defibrillatorunmatched
- Demographicsunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- Emergency Careunmatched
- Emergency Medicineunmatched
- Employee Orientationunmatched
- Flexible Spending Accountsunmatched
- Geriatricsunmatched
- Healthcareunmatched
- Hospitalunmatched
- Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
- Inventory Managementunmatched
- Laboratory Equipmentunmatched
- Laboratory Managementunmatched
- MEDITECHunmatched
- Marketingunmatched
- Medical Diagnosisunmatched
- Medical Treatmentunmatched
- Medication Administrationunmatched
- Medicationsunmatched
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)unmatched
- Neurologyunmatched
- Nonprofitunmatched
- Nursingunmatched
- Operational Supportunmatched
- Order Suppliesunmatched
- Orthoticsunmatched
- Patient Administrationunmatched
- Patient Assessmentunmatched
- Patient Careunmatched
- Philosophyunmatched
- Prescription Drugsunmatched
- Process Improvementunmatched
- Radiation Safetyunmatched
- Registered Nurse (RN)unmatched
- Stock Purchase Plansunmatched
- Technical Supportunmatched
- Telemedicineunmatched
- Ventilatorunmatched
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