ND Global Consulting Services is seeking a travel nurse RN Cardiac Cath Lab for a travel nursing job in Pikeville, Kentucky.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Cardiac Cath Lab
- Discipline: RN
- Start Date: 05/26/2025
- Duration: 13 weeks
- 48 hours per week
- Shift: 12 hours, days
- Employment Type: Travel
Education
• Associate's degree in nursing required.
• Bachelor's degree in nursing preferred.
• RN license required.
• CPR required BLS, ACLS, NIHSS EKG required.
• 2 years' experience required, 5 years preferred.
Duties Pre/Post Area Responsibilities: Assesses/reassesses young adult, adult, and elderly patients and applies the nursing process to:
• Demonstrates basic competency in specialized procedures/equipment, i.e.
• Cardiac Monitoring
• Care of and/or recovery of patient pre/post interventional cardiac procedures
• Care of patients with vascular closure devices: application, maintenance, and removal
• Maintain/Pull Arterial and/or Venous Sheaths
• ACT machine
• Angioseal/Vasoseal
• Minimal Sedation
• Use of moderate sedation with use of safety and prevention guidelines involved in delivery of moderate sedation.
• Assist with transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE) with use of safety and guidelines involved in delivery of the procedure.
• Perform "Bubble" method as required when assisting with TEE
• Pain management and follow-up pain reassessment
• Blood draws and use of appropriate "order-of-the-draw" for labs
• IV therapy
• IV ADD
• Infusion of blood and blood products
• Information management
• Synchronized Cardioversion
• ICD's Pacemakers (Temporary and Permanent) Pre/Post Care and Recovery