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Allied Health Job Info.

Facility: Oak Hill Hospital
Location: Brooksville, Florida
USA
Degree: BA
Compensation:
Perm/Temp: Perm
Workload: Full Time
Supervisory Exp.: Yes
Certifications: ACLS BLS Healthcare Provider
Position Type:
  • Hospital
Skills:
  • General Cardiovascular
Date Posted: 02/11/2010

Job Contact Info.

Job Number: 00643-2303
Contact Name: Loney.Moses@HCAHealthcare.com
Company: HCA West Florida
Agency: No
Phone: 800-553-7953
Fax:
Website: Visit Website
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Cardiovascular technologists assist doctors in diagnosing and treating cardiac (heart) and peripheral vascular (blood vessel) problems. Cardiovascular technologists may specialize in three areas of practice-invasive cardiology, echocardiography, and vascular technology. Cardiovascular technicians, who specialize in electrocardiograms (EKGs), stress testing, and Holter monitors are known as cardiographic, or EKG technicians.

Cardiovascular technologists specializing in invasive procedures are called cardiology technologists. They assist doctors with cardiac catheterization procedures in which a small tube, or catheter, is wound through a patient's blood vessel from a spot on the patient's leg into the heart. The procedure can determine whether a blockage exists in the blood vessels that supply the heart muscle. The procedure also can help to diagnose other problems. Part of the procedure may involve balloon angioplasty, which can be used to treat blockages of blood vessels or heart valves without the need for heart surgery. Cardiology technologists assist physicians as they insert a catheter with a balloon on the end to the point of the obstruction. (Source: Occupational Outlook Handbook)


Charge RN - Registered Nurse Open Heart CVICU


We do everything we can to make it easy for you to excel within your chosen specialty, with convenient advantages like facility sponsored free online CEUs, and tuition advancement/reimbursement program. But that's only part of what you will enjoy at Oak Hill Hospital.

Our team and family atmosphere is reflective of our wholesome and friendly hometown, where you'll enjoy a nature lover's paradise near Weeki Wachee Springs Water Park, Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuge, and Withlacoochee State Forest. It doesn't matter if you can pronounce all that when you get here. Because, after all, fun is a universal language! The Assistant Nurse Manager/Charge Nurse supervises nursing service activities in assigned nursing unit for the duration of the assigned shift or in the absence of nursing management.  The task and responsibilities of this position include:

  • Participates actively in the planning and distribution of patient assignments.
  • Evaluates the effectiveness of care and addresses any issues that affect the desired patient outcomes.
  • Supports nursing staff in communication with physicians to include accepting doctors' orders and communicating patient condition.
  • Facilitates the process of reporting patient status to the following shift of nursing personnel.
  • Manages the nursing care of assigned patients in accordance with established policies, procedures and protocols of the healthcare organization. 
  • Assesses plans and evaluates patient care needs. 
  • Carries out physician orders.
  • Administers prescribed medications, changes dressings, cleans wounds, monitors vital signs.
  • Provides respiratory and ventilator management and monitoring for patients.
  • Serves as the primary coordinator of all disciplines for well coordinated patient care.
  • Monitors, records and communicates patient condition as appropriate utilizing computerized documentation systems. 
  • Instructs and educates patients and families.
  • Assesses and coordinates patient's discharge planning needs with members of the healthcare team.
  • Provides age and culturally appropriate care.
  • Orients and mentors new staff members.
  • Follows Standard Precautions using personal protective equipment as required.

  

Qualifications

 

Required Job Qualifications include:

  • Current licensure as an RN.
  • Current certification as a ACLS BLS Healthcare Provider.
  • Graduate of an accredited school of professional nursing.
  • Minimum of 2 year of clinical CVICU nursing experience.
  • Previous charge nurse experience preferred.
  • Customer service abilities including effective listening skills.
  • Critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision in a fast paced environment.
  • Ability to perform work that requires frequent standing, bending, reaching, squatting, kneeling, moving, lifting of patients and/or equipment up to 50 pounds.