RN - Cardiac Telemetry - Weekend Option - nights

Kansas Health System; Olathe (KS); On-site; USD 67,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Kansas Health System - Olathe Hospital is seeking an experienced Registered Nurse for Cardiac Telemetry on the weekend night option. The RN uses the nursing process to coordinate care and ensure safety, applying holistic and evidence-based practice.

Responsibilities include teaching patients and families, collaborating with the care team, and maintaining medication safety. A BSN within five years is required for ADN-to-BSN; current Kansas or compact license and CPR/BLS are required.

Qualifications

• Nurse must be licensed in Kansas or a compact state.
• BSN must be completed within five years of hire.
• CPR/AED/BLS certification within 14 days of hire.
• Ability to provide individualized patient teaching.
• Ability to collaborate with the interdisciplinary care team.

Responsibilities

• Assess readiness to learn and tailor a teaching plan.
• Communicate professionally with patients, families, and staff.
• Adhere to medication safety policies and procedures.
• Provide direct patient care and participate in care planning.
• Demonstrate leadership and mentor teammates as appropriate.
• Delegate tasks based on scope and unit needs.

Skills

Teaching plan development

Patient education

Interdisciplinary communication

Education

High School Graduate

Associate Degree Nursing

BSN required within 5 years

Job description

Position Title

RN - Cardiac Telemetry - Weekend Option - nights

Olathe Hospital

Position Summary / Career Interest

The Registered Nurse (RN) utilizes the nursing process to coordinate the interdisciplinary approach to patient care. He/she provides safe, therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic way. He/she integrates knowledge, skills and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families through the continuum of care. The RN collaborates with others to integrate assessment and input of the patient, family and the interdisciplinary team. He/she ensures improvements in practice settings by assuming responsibility for self-development in life‑long learning. Provides direction and guidance to others regarding practice, serves as a resource, preceptor, and mentor. Demonstrates leadership skills in decision‑making and problem solving. The RN integrates and communicates knowledge and sensitivity to patient's psychosocial, spiritual, cultural and age specific needs. He/she practices within the boundaries of the Kansas Nurse Practice Act, specialty standards and organizational/departmental policies and procedures.

Responsibilities and Essential Job Functions

Accurately assesses patient's/family's readiness to learn, organizes and executes an individualized teaching plan, evaluates patient's understanding using teach back methods; modifies approach as necessary.

Acts professionally and communicates appropriately when interacting with patients, family members, nurses, and other medical professionals.

Adheres to hospital policies related to medication safety, including order writing format, correct administration considerations, double checks and other established policies and practices.

All other duties as assigned.

Anticipates and intervenes in an appropriate and timely manner when there are concerns related to patient and staff safety.

Consistently meets work schedule.

Consistently role models individualized therapeutic communication based upon patient and family psychosocial, spiritual and cultural needs.

Delegates appropriately according to task situation, level of expertise and functions as an independent and supportive team member. Takes a leadership role in building and maintaining an environment where all team members thrive.

Develops, implements and evaluates plan of care that recognizes changes in the patient's condition and adapts plan as needed.

Independently performs a comprehensive assessment to provide the most effective patient care for a given population.

Seeks out additional learning experiences within the practice area:

• Unit specific certifications


• Consultation with experts


• In-services/rounds


• Collaborating with the multidisciplinary team

Utilizes technology correctly for functions related to patient care delivery, mandatory programs/competencies and policies/procedures.

Must be able to perform the professional, clinical and or technical competencies of the assigned unit or department.

These statements are intended to describe the essential functions of the job and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities. Skills and duties may vary dependent upon your department or unit. Other duties may be assigned as required.

Required Education and Experience

High School Graduate

Associate Degree Nursing

Nurses hired after September 1, 2026, without a BSN will be required to sign an ADN-to-BSN agreement at the time of hire and must complete a BSN degree by the fifth anniversary of hire into this role.

Required Licensure and Certification

Licensed Registered Nurse (LRN) - Single State - State Board of Nursing (Kansas) or compact license

CPR/ AED/ BLS - Other BLS within 14 days

Some units will require additional unit-specific affirmations/certifications/work experience

Time Type

Full time

Important information for you to know as you apply

The health system is an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally-protected status. See also Diversity, Equity & Inclusion .

The health system provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need to request reasonable accommodations for your disability as you navigate the recruitment process, please let our recruiters know by requesting an Accommodation Request form using this link [e-mail] .

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