Nurse Cardiac Cath Lab

Day Per Diem Cardiac Cath Lab Registered Nurse

Elevate your career at Mercy San Juan Medical Center, the premier highest-volume STEMI center in the county. We are looking for a dedicated professional to join our state-of-the-art Cath Lab, performing over 2,500 procedures annually across two advanced rooms.

Our facility is a hub for high-acuity care, specializing in complex cardiac and peripheral interventions, including EVAR and Carotid Stenting. You will work a consistent 4x10 shift schedule, providing the perfect balance of high-impact clinical work and personal time.

You will be joining a tenured team that is the backbone of our accredited Chest Pain Center. We pride ourselves on a culture of efficiency, elite skill, and genuine compassion. As a member of this front-line team, you will participate in a weekday and weekend on-call rotation that serves as the region’s primary lifeline for emergency cardiac care.If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and want to work alongside the most experienced professionals in the region, we want to meet you.

As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery.

Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

To be successful in this role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

• Assessment: Performs total body and system assessment each shift/visit according to unit standards.
• Care of Patient: Including planning, implementing, evaluating and educating.
• Clinical/Technical Skills: Utilizes technology, procedures, protocols, standards and interventions specific to assigned unit.
• Documentation: Performs legible, timely, concise and accurate documentation according to policies and procedures. Proficient and competent with the computerized documentation system.
• Leadership: Accepts responsibility and accountability for own decisions and behaviors. Recognizes, accepts and cooperates with direction from facility leadership.
• Precepting/Mentoring: Participates in orientation of new staff, ancillary personnel and mentors students in a constructive and positive manner. Serves as resource to staff from other nursing departments.

Required:

• Minimum one (1) year critical care RN experience within the last three (3) years.
  • Will consider 1 year Level I and/or Level II ED RN experience in lieu of critical care experience within the last 3 years.
• Current CA RN license
• Current American Heart Association BLS and ACLS
• Candidates must have cardiac rhythms and basic cardiac hemodynamics and anatomy training
• Ability to wear lead aprons for an extended length of time during procedures
• Other certifications may be required
• Call required

Preferred:

• Cardiac Cath Lab experience

Founded in 1967, Dignity Health - Mercy San Juan Medical Center is a 377-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Carmichael, California. Serving over 100,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level II Trauma Center, Level III NICU, heart care, cancer care, women’s health, and neurology. Additionally, Mercy San Juan Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Comprehensive Stroke Center, the highest level of stroke care certification awarded by The Joint Commission.

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