Cath Lab RN
Goldsboro, North Carolina
University of North Carolina Health Care System - 2700 Wayne Memorial Drive ,

RN Cath Lab

Location: Goldsboro, North Carolina

Contract Length: 13 weeks

Shift: Days, 7:00am to 5:30pm, 4x10s only (10 hours/day, 40 hours/week)

Role Overview

• Provides competent clinical nursing care consistent with professional standards, reporting to the Nurse Manager/Director.
• Coordinates and delivers patient care using the nursing process in a hospital setting.
• Works in the Cath Lab and is expected to float between the Cath Lab and CVU.
• Essential duties include patient assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation; patient and family education; bedside point-of-care testing; interdisciplinary collaboration; discharge planning; and participation in unit performance improvement.

Required Qualifications

• Valid Registered Nurse (RN) license in North Carolina.
• One (1) year of Cardiac Cath Lab experience, obtained within the last year.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification issued by the American Heart Association or American Red Cross.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification issued by the American Heart Association.
• NIHSS (National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale) certification.
• Associate of Science in Nursing / Associate Degree in Nursing from an accredited school of nursing.
• Experience with Epic.

Schedule and On-Call

• Cardiology does not take call; it is late coverage until cases are complete.
• Vascular surgery on-call varies by week. When vascular surgeons are on call during the week, the call window is 1730 to 0700. For their weekends, it is 24 hours.
• STEMI call occurs during normal operations, 0700 to 1730, Monday through Thursday.