Clinical Nurse - Cardiac Telemetry

Tampa General Hospital

Brooksville (FL)

On-site

USD 70,000 - 100,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Tampa General Hospital in Florida seeks a Clinical Nurse for Cardiac Telemetry to provide comprehensive nursing care, perform assessments, and coordinate patient plans on the unit.

Under supervision, you will document care, communicate with the healthcare team, and participate in discharge planning to ensure quality outcomes for cardiac patients. RN license and BLS are required; ACLS/PALS preferred.

Qualifications

Associate's Degree in Nursing required
Florida RN license required
Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required
ACLS and/or PALS certifications preferred

Responsibilities

Assess and analyze patients' health status on the assigned unit.
Plan and implement individualized patient care with collaboration.
Document nursing assessments and communicate findings to the team.
Coordinate discharge planning and initiate appropriate patient education.
Direct and supervise care team members within scope of practice.
Transcribe and implement physician orders; evaluate patient responses.

Skills

Clinical nursing

Patient assessments

Discharge planning

Education

Associate's Degree Nursing

Job description

Job Description - Clinical Nurse - Cardiac Telemetry (260003I6)

Job Description

Clinical Nurse - Cardiac Telemetry - ( 260003I6 )

Description

Under general supervision, following established policies, procedures, and professional guidelines, delivers nursing care to patients. Plans and implements nursing care; documents nursing assessments; identifies and reports situations requiring further intervention; formulates and communicates goal-directed plan of care; assures patient rights. Responsible for performing job duties in accordance with the mission, vision and values of Tampa General Hospital and principles of quality improvement.

Essential Functions

Assesses and analyzes the health status of patients in assigned nursing unit in a comprehensive manner. Performs and/or assures completed assessments on all patients admitted within the designated time delineated in policy/unit standards.
Performs on-going assessments and documents according to policy and procedure, reportssignificant findings of admission and on-going assessments to appropriate member of heathcare team.
Initiates discharge planning process with initial admission assessment.
Plans patient care on assigned unit in collaboration with the patient, family, and health careteam.
Formulates individualized patient plan of care based on assessment data within the designatedtime delineated in policy/unit standards.
Updates plan of care based on the patient assessment within appropriate time period.
Directs, implements and coordinates patient care activities on assigned unit to ensure thedelivery of quality care.
Communicates the plan of care to other members of the healthcare team through dailyworksheet conferences, verbally during the shift and shift report.
Directs care team members in accordance with their scope of practice.
Communicates and documents all patient care given including assessments, plan of care, interventions, patient response, and follow up.
Transcribes and directs the implementation of physician orders. Provides patient education based on assessed needs and evaluates understanding.
Conducts ongoing evaluation of patient outcomes and documents effectiveness of planned and implemented interventions and strategies in relation to the plan of care within time frames perpolicy/unit standards. Includes patient and family in the evaluation process.
Provides appropriate patient assessment and care specific to the needs of the patientpopulations served (e.g. age groups, patients of size; diagnosis-based).
Demonstrates knowledge and awareness of the specific physical, psychosocial anddevelopmental needs of patients as appropriate to the populations served.

Education