Registered Nurse RN - Cath Lab Prep & Recovery Unit - Full Time Days - Gainesville

Northeast Georgia Medical Center; Gainesville (GA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Northeast Georgia Health System’s Cardiac Cath Lab Prep & Recovery Units in Gainesville and Braselton seek a capable Registered Nurse. The role emphasizes safe, direct patient care within a collaborative, interdisciplinary team, supporting patients before and after cardiac and vascular procedures.

Ideal candidates have an ADN or Diploma and GA RN licensure, with at least 1 year of RN experience; BSN is preferred.

Qualifications

• Licensed to practice as an RN in Georgia.
• Associate's Degree, ADN or Diploma required.
• Minimum of 1 year RN experience; potential growth with mentorship.

Responsibilities

• Deliver direct, safe patient care in the Cardiac Cath Lab Prep & Recovery units.
• Participate in interdisciplinary rounds and governance activities to improve patient outcomes.
• Communicate clearly with patients, families, and care team to ensure continuity of care.
• Support unit leadership and contribute to safety, patient experience, and quality indicators.

Skills

Communication

Team collaboration

Clinical nursing

Education

Associate's Degree, ADN or Diploma

Licensed RN in Georgia

Job description

Job Category: Nursing - Registered Nurse

Work Shift/Schedule: 12 Hr Morning - Evening

Northeast Georgia Health System is rooted in a foundation of improving the health of our communities.

About the Role:

Cardiac Cath Lab Prep & Recovery Units (PRU) are compassionate and collaborative teams dedicated to providing exceptional cardiovascular care to patients before and after cardiac and vascular procedures. Our Prep & Recovery Units serve the Gainesville and Braselton campuses, supporting patients through every stage of their procedural experience with a focus on safety, comfort, education, and personalized care.

Team members work closely with physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, technologists, and other healthcare professionals to ensure a seamless patient experience. We value teamwork, continuous learning, and a supportive culture where every team member plays an important role in improving patient positive outcomes.

Job Summary

Capable clinician with previous specialty experience preferred, focused on expanding knowledge and skills. Consistently provides effective direct care as part of the interdisciplinary team to a variety of complex patients. Seeks as well as provides feedback for improved clinical practice. Assumes a beginning clinical bedside leadership role and seeks mentoring in this process. Participates as a member on PNGC councils and Nursing Quality Teams as appropriate. Actively participates on Unit Council helping with plans to improve NDNQI nursing sensitive indicators, RN Satisfaction, Employee Engagement, Culture of Safety, and Patient Experience data. Works together with other care team members to recruit and retain an excellent nursing care team. For the new graduate clinical RN: focuses primarily on developing knowledge and skills and showing growth in ability to care for increasingly complex patients. Responsible for providing direct and safe patient care based on the nursing process, and for coordinating care for assigned patients on a shift to promote the achievement of clinical outcomes. Requires consultation with more experienced clinicians and accepts feedback as a constructive professional development tool.

Minimum Job Qualifications

Licensure or other certifications: Licensed to practice as an RN in Georgia.

Educational Requirements: Associate's Degree, ADN or Diploma required

Minimum Experience: At least 1 year of RN experience - Demonstrated competence in RN I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire

Other:

Preferred Job Qualifications

Preferred Licensure or other certifications: BSN

Preferred Educational Requirements:

Preferred Experience:

Other:

Job Specific and Unique Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Delivery of safe, effective, efficient care that meets population specific guidelines

Actively works to make own and related teams successful, effectively communicates with patients, families and colleagues at all levels, shows consideration and respect or others and fosters customer service

Effectively prioritizes, recognizes problems, and utilizes evidence based practice

Demonstrates personal mastery, leadership of self and others, as appropriate, delegates appropriately, and supports NGHS shared governance model

Basic computer skills necessary to operate computer systems used on unit

Essential Tasks and Responsibilities

Transformational Leadership

Demonstrates competence in RN I performance expectations in addition to:

Serves as a highly engaged and full partner on the care team and responds willingly to care team member needs for assistance.

Adapts to change and demonstrates flexibility

Leads interdisciplinary rounds to facilitate appropriateness of care and smooth transitions across the continuum

Positively impacts the work environment by displaying respect for individuals and the organization

Exemplary Professional Practice

Demonstrates competence in RN I performance expectations in addition to:

Effectively applies the nursing process within the framework of the organization's professional model of care, using the nursing process to meet the clinical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of the patient and family

Demonstrates initiative and seeks formal and informal opportunities to improve clinical practice within specialty area

Demonstrates critical thinking in the identification of clinical, social, safety, psychological, ethical and spiritual issues within the episode of care

Effectively delegates care as appropriate while retaining accountability for the quality of care given to patients and families

Demonstrates the ability to communicate clearly and effectively with all members of the healthcare team including physicians and advanced practice providers; incorporates Safety behavior and error prevention tools

Incorporates Sister Simone Roach's 7 Cs of Caring: Ctheory by incorporating the seven Cs of Caring: Compassion, Competence, Confidence, Conscience, Commitment, Comportment, Creativity into daily work and practice

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