Cath Lab/EP RN

Baylor Scott & White Health; Midlothian (TX); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and welfare benefits

401(k) with dollar-for-dollar match up

Tuition Reimbursement

PTO accrual beginning Day 1

Job summary

Baylor Scott & White Health – The Heart Hospital in Waxahachie, TX is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) for a combined Cath Lab and Electrophysiology (EP) environment. Join a growing cardiovascular program and expand your clinical expertise in a collaborative team.

This full-time role features 40 hours/week, day shift, 4 x 10-hour shifts, and call requirements across Cath Lab and EP duties. Prior Cath Lab/EP experience is preferred and ICU nursing background is common among team members.

Qualifications

• RN license required
• ICU experience required or preferred
• Cath Lab and/or EP experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Provide direct patient care in Cath Lab and EP procedural settings.
• Assist physicians during invasive cardiac and electrophysiology procedures.
• Prepare, monitor, and recover patients.
• Maintain sterile technique and scrub in procedures as needed.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to deliver patient outcomes.

Job description

Registered Nurse (RN) Cath Lab / EP – Full Time

Baylor Scott & White Health – The Heart Hospital (Waxahachie, TX)

Join Baylor Scott & White Health’s growing cardiovascular program at The Heart Hospital in Waxahachie. This is a unique opportunity to work in a combined Cath Lab and Electrophysiology (EP) environment, allowing you to expand your clinical expertise while being part of a close-knit, highly collaborative team.

Position Highlights

Full-Time | 40 hours/week, Day shift

4 – 10-hour shifts

Call Required

Work across both Cath Lab and EP specialties

About The Department

• Joint Cath Lab and EP program
• 2 procedural rooms with a 3rd room in development
• Growing, high-impact cardiovascular service line

What You’ll Do

• Provide direct patient care in Cath Lab and EP procedural settings
• Assist physicians during invasive cardiac and electrophysiology procedures
• Prepare, monitor, and recover patients
• Maintain sterile technique and scrub in procedures as needed
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to deliver excellent patient outcomes

What Makes This Role Stand Out

• Small, close-knit team culture
• Opportunity to expand your skill set across Cath Lab and EP
• High growth potential with department expansion underway
• Strong leadership support and collaborative environment

Minimum Qualifications

• RN License

ICU Experience Required

• Ability to live within 30-minute call radius

Preferred Qualifications

• Cath Lab and/or EP experience
• Scrubbing experience

About Us

Here at Baylor Scott & White Health we promote the well-being of all individuals, families, and communities. Baylor Scott and White is the largest not-for-profit healthcare system in Texas that empowers you to live well.

Our Core Values Are

• We serve faithfully by doing what's right with a joyful heart.
• We never settle by constantly striving for better.
• We are in it together by supporting one another and those we serve.
• We make an impact by taking initiative and delivering exceptional experience.

Benefits

• Immediate eligibility for health and welfare benefits
• 401(k) savings plan with dollar-for-dollar match up to 5%
• Tuition Reimbursement
• PTO accrual beginning Day 1

Note: Benefits may vary based upon position type and/or level.

Job Summary

The Cath Lab Registered Nurse (RN) is a licensed professional. The RN uses the BSWH nursing model to coordinate patient care. Using the nursing process, the RN assesses the patient and identifies nursing diagnoses. The RN develops and implements an individualized care plan and evaluates the patient's response. The RN promotes safe passage for patients by using knowledge of patient needs. The RN helps patients transition through healthcare without preventable complications or delays. The RN delegates interventions to healthcare personnel based on the Texas Nursing Practice Act. Delegation also considers each patient's condition and the employee's competencies.

Essential Functions Of The Role

• Clinical Judgment: Using clinical reasoning, conducts accurate assessments according to standards. Identifies and prioritizes patient and family needs. Develops, implements, and evaluates the nursing care plan. Modifies the plan to meet outcomes.
• Clinical Inquiry: Evaluates nursing practice quality and effectiveness, including nursing indicators. Supports evidence-based practice changes through research and learning. Participates in quality improvement initiatives.
• Caring Practices: Creates an attentive, helpful, safe, and therapeutic environment for patients, families, and staff. Develops therapeutic relationships with patients and families and maintains appropriate boundaries. Manages emotional and physical pain to promote relief and healing and prevent unnecessary suffering.
• Recognizes and appreciates a patient's and family's unique differences. Incorporates culture, beliefs, gender, race, ethnicity, lifestyle, status, age, and values into a care plan.
• Advocacy and Moral Agency: Preserves and protects the confidentiality, autonomy, dignity, and rights of patients and families. Represents their concerns. Creates an individualized plan that reflects patient and family values and goals. Identifies and helps resolve ethical and clinical concerns.
• Facilitation of Learning: Facilitates learning for patients, families, nursing staff, health care team, and community. Integrates education throughout care to help them make informed health care recommendations. Includes health promotion and disease prevention. Assesses and documents learning needs and outcomes.
• Partnership: Works collaboratively with colleagues and community to create and implement a care plan. Open to all team members' unique contributions. Delegates tasks to appropriate staff and ensures timely follow-up.
• Systems Thinking: Uses strategies and resources for problem-solving for patients, family, and staff. Recognizes limited resources and considers safety, effectiveness, and efficiency in planning and delivering patient care.
• Professionalism improves nursing practice and the work environment. It involves participating in mutual governance and decision-making processes. It also includes recognizing the contributions of others. Participates in the staffing process from education and planning to evaluation. Identifies personal goals and pursues ongoing professional growth through continuing education. Engages in networking with professional colleagues and involvement in nursing organizations. Involves self-study, professional reading, certification, and seeking advanced degrees. Contributes to the professional development of peers and colleagues. Demonstrates commitment to community service.

Key Success Factors

• Knowledge and expertise of nursing and patient care standards and procedures.
• Know laws, rules, and regulations; standards and guidelines of certifying bodies; hospital and department standards, protocols, policies, and procedures for nursing care in the assigned area.
• Knowledge of medical terminology, health promotion, risk reduction, and disease prevention and management. Understanding of medications, common dosages, effects, and possible adverse reactions.
• Knowledge of medical and professional nursing ethics and patient privacy rights.
• Must be able to communicate thoughts clearly, both verbally and in writing.
• Social skills to interact with a wide range of constituencies.
• Must have critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Observe changes in patients' medical conditions and communicate them to nursing staff and physicians.
• Provide age‑specific, quality, patient‑centered care through the nursing process. Respect the diversity of human experience. Develop, evaluate, implement, and modify patient care plans as needed.
• General computer skills include Microsoft Office, information security, scheduling and payroll systems, electronic medical documentation, and email.

Belonging Statement

We believe that all people should feel welcomed, valued and supported.

Qualifications

• EDUCATION - Grad of an Accredited Program or (2) two years of work experience above the minimum qualification
• MAJOR - Nursing
• MAJOR - Nursing
• MAJOR - Nursing
• MAJOR - Nursing
• MAJOR - Nursing
• EXPERIENCE - (2) Two Years of Experience
• CERTIFICATION/LICENSE/REGISTRATION -Basic Life Support (BLS),Registered Nurse (RN)
• ACLS (ACLS): Must have both Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Basic Life Support (BLS) within (30) thirty days of hire.