Cardiovascular Invasive Specialist

The Cardiovascular Invasive Specialist 1 provides safe and therapeutic care in a holistic and caring way while incorporating differences into the provision of care. Ensure improvements in practice by assuming responsibility for self-development in life long learning and provides direction and guidance to others regarding practice while serving as a resource, preceptor and mentor. Demonstrates leadership skills in decision making and problem solving. Assists the physician with diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in the cath lab.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Performs psychosocial/physiologic assessments that integrate changing data as documented in procedure notes. Tailors and prioritizes caring practices to individual needs, including cultural/ethical/spiritual needs.
• Participates in the planning of routine transitional healthcare needs (e.g. treatment options). Responds to changes in patient needs and provides holistic care.
• Makes independent clinical decisions based on knowledge drawn from education and experience, as documented in procedure notes. Identifies variances from expected outcomes. Immediately recognizes and responds to adverse clinical situations and directs others to assist in a favorable patient outcome.
• Assists the healthcare team with the documentation process. Formulates a plan of care based on trends of similar patients.
• Acts as a clinical resource and serves as a mentor to health care team members while displaying leadership behaviors. Identifies own learning needs based on self-evaluation and the progress made from the previous year's goals.
• Consistently enters patient charge information accurately and maintains statistical data for the outcome report to include ACC and Hi-IQ data bases.
• Appropriately delegates patient care activities to other health care team members and participates in making and revising staff assignments. Takes initiative to participate in efficient and timely room turnover.
• Calibrates, operates and troubleshoots a wide variety of equipment and instruments. Selects appropriate instruments and supplies based on patient presentation during procedure. Monitors the EKG, hemodynamic pressure and other physiologic data during the procedure.
• May perform additional duties as assigned.

Education
Graduate of an accredited school of nursing and /or graduate of an accredited school of Cardiovascular Technology or Radiology Technology or equivalent education and experience.

Experience
Zero – one year of experience in an interventional Cardiac Cath Lab or Electrophysiology Lab performing Cardio Invasive Specialist duties or equivalent years of experience as a nurse working in a critical care hospital unit.

• Certification

Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support
Basic Life Support
Registered Cardiovascular Invasive Specialist

Licensure
RN licensure in the Commonwealth of Virginia is required only if the certification requirement for RCIS, RCES, RTRVI, RTRCV, or RTRCI cannot be obtained within one year of the successful completion of the required training and orientation programs

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Ability to Relocate:

• Virginia: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person