Senior Registered Nurse - Cardiology Clinic - 4LOCS(NY)

Senior Registered Nurse - Cardiology Clinic

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for supporting and driving FVC quality standards through meeting regulatory and accrediting body requirements and the practice of Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI), including use of FVC/FMS CQI tools.
• Assists with implementation of FVC quality goals and facility specific action plans in order to achieve FVC quality standards.
• Accountable for outstanding quality of patient care, as defined by the FVC quality goals, to ensure that FVC/FMC policies and procedures are followed.
• Responsible for addressing and acting on adverse events and action thresholds in collaboration with facility management.
• Maintains integrity of medical records and other FVC administrative and operational records.
• Complies with all data collection and auditing activities.
• Maintains facility environmental integrity and safety.
• Obtains necessary medical history, discusses procedure and answers questions, and performs nursing assessment on the day of the procedure.
• Provides education to patients and patient's family regarding post procedure care of vascular access.
• Monitors patient condition before, during and after the procedure, especially patients having moderate sedation and contrast media injections for possible complications or reactions.
• Acts as a resource for the patient to address patient concerns and questions.
• Identifies and communicates patient related issues to facility management, as needed.
• Completes documentation of patient information from admission to discharge in an accurate manner.