Job description
Washington Regional Medical Center is looking for Registered Nurses for our Cardiology department.
If you’re an RN looking for more than just a job, you belong at Washington Regional! The work you do matters to your patients and to us. And we believe caring for our team members is just as important as caring for our patients. You’ll receive the support and resources needed to advance your career at the #1 hospital in Arkansas.
The Cardiology unit has 76 private patient rooms and serves a diverse patient population. Washington Regional’s Walker Heart Institute provides the area’s most comprehensive cardiovascular care and Northwest Arkansas’ largest team of cardiovascular experts.
The Cardiology unit is a great place to grow your nursing career. All new hires will be assigned a dedicated preceptor during their orientation process.
- Coordinate the total nursing care of assigned patients including assessment, planning, implementation and documentation
- Provide high quality, patient focused care to assigned patients by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; recommending necessary adjustments; and following hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care.
- Maintain patient confidence and protect operations by keeping information confidential
- Protect patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations
- Promote a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families
- Assist in achieving patient quality of care, national patient safety, regulatory agency, and budgetary goals
- Resolve patient problems and needs by using multidisciplinary team strategies
- Maintain a safe and clean working environment by following procedures, rules and regulations
- Serve a culturally and linguistically diverse patient population
- Supervise and delegate duties to student nurses, LPNs, nursing assistants and the unit secretary
- Assist with orientation of new staff members
- Provide clinical supervision of nursing students
Licensure
You must have an Arkansas RN license or be licensed in a state that has enacted the RN/LPN NLC.
- Must be a graduate of an accredited nursing program
- CPR certification required
- Basic dysrhythmia*
- ACLS certification*
- within 18 months of DOH/ transfer; certification must be maintained once completed.
- Excellent clinical skills
- Professional bedside manner
- Knowledge of infection control practices
- Physiological knowledge
- Medication administration experience
- Ability to work with a team
- Ability to multi-task
- Good listening skills
- Excellent verbal communication skills
About Washington Regional
Our mission is to improve the health of people in the communities we serve through compassionate, high-quality care, prevention, and wellness education.
Washington Regional Medical System is the only not-for-profit, community-owned, and locally governed health care system in Northwest Arkansas. We employ 3,300+ team members and serve the region with a 425-bed medical center, over 50 clinic locations, the area’s only Level II trauma center, and five Centers of Excellence - the Washington Regional J.B. Hunt Transport Services Neuroscience Institute; Washington Regional Walker Heart Institute; Washington Regional Women and Infants Center; Washington Regional Total Joint Center; and Washington Regional Pat Walker Center for Seniors.
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