Registered Nurse - Clinical - Cardiovascular Stepdown
On-siteSt. Louis, Missouri, United States
Job Summary
Assess, manage, and direct nursing care for cardiovascular stepdown patients, including comprehensive admission and transfer assessments, post-op evaluations, and discharge planning. Establish and evaluate individualized plans of care based on patient diagnosis, lab data, and physician orders while administering medications and monitoring IV fluids. Provide specialized care for high-risk patients, including pain management, restraint protocols, and abuse assessment, while maintaining strict infection control and safety standards. Collaborate with the health team to coordinate daily care, ensure accurate handoff communication, and address changes in patient condition immediately.
Required Qualifications
- Maintains current license and certifications
- Maintain up to date BLS and HI
- Annual TB Screening and Influenza vaccination
- Annual Ethics Training (Initial Ethics, if new employee)
- Annual Safety Training
- Required Information Security course
- Required Abuse & Neglect course
- Annual Blood Borne Pathogens training (if required)
- Coursework as assigned for .edu
- Annual competency
- Age/Population specific competency (if applicable)
- orientation competency (if new hire)
- Service Specific
- Must be able to lift 50 lbs
Desired Qualifications
- Demonstrates ability to change and adapt to changing work demands
- Responds positively to change
- Provides assistance and support to peers, co-workers and other team members
- Adapts positively to changes in unplanned work load and job demands
- Participates in Committee(s), Shared Governance, Work Team(s), in a leadership and or in membership role
- Reviews Hospital/Nursing publications
- Keeps up to date with policies and procedures
- Participates and or keeps up to date with Shared Governance and Unit Based Practice Council activities and information. Contributes to requests for feedback
- Participates in learning experiences that increases professional competence
- Attends staff meetings/reviews minutes when absent
- Participates in nursing research activities
- Participates in Departmental and Hospital Performance Improvement activities when warranted
- Participates in occurrence reviews
- Contributes to the maintenance/improvement of all nursing quality indicators
- Leads a performance improvement team when requested
- Contributes to data collection
- Participates in evaluation of Performance Improvement results
- Assists in developing unit based Performance Improvement and action plans
- Participates in the performance/process improvement process
- Assists in developing and implementing nursing unit goals
- Remains current with evidenced based practice initiatives
- Identifies opportunities for improvement, participates in data collection when requested, suggests solutions, communicates using appropriate lines of authority and works toward problem resolution
- Participates in nursing research activities
- Participates in Departmental and Hospital Performance Improvement activities when warranted
- Participates in occurrence reviews
- Contributes to the maintenance/improvement of all nursing quality indicators
- Demonstrates knowledge and skills of normal growth & development necessary to provide services to the age of the patient served by the department
- Demonstrates ability to assess and interpret age specific data to identify patient needs
- Utilizes communication skills necessary to interpret age specific responses to service
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