CVOR Registered Nurse - Cardiac Surgical Services - Bayfront Hospital

Position Summary

Administers patient care in an area in a hospital or inpatient setting where patients have an advanced illness or injury that routinely requires timely, intense, and complex care to stabilize and support the patient’s medical condition. These areas require a lowercaregiver-to-patient ratio and highly trained team members with advanced skills.

Cardiac Open Heart 

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates critical knowledge, skills, and judgement to care for patients requiring complex assessment and therapies, highintensity interventions, and high-level continuous nursing vigilance.• Utilizes information and assessment data to anticipate and respond with confidence and adapt to rapidly changing patientconditions.• Identifies and prioritizes information to take immediate and decisive evidence-based, patient focused action.• Monitors and adjusts specialized equipment used on patients, and interprets and records electronic displays, such as intracranialpressures, central venous pressures, pulmonary artery pressures, and cardiac rhythms from cardiac monitors, respirators,ventilators, oxygen pumps, etc.• Responds to life-saving situations based on nursing standards and protocol.• Observes, monitors, and assesses patients’ condition, recognizes, identifies, and interprets serious situations and calls Physicianor takes preplanned emergency measures when Physician is not immediately available.• Assesses patient’s needs and develops/revises an individualized plan of care based on patient needs and responses. Evaluatesthe patient’s progress toward attaining expected outcomes.• Respects diversity by building respectful relationships with all team members and customers.• Functions as a patient and family advocate.• Demonstrates advanced knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served on his orher assigned unit/ department.• Serves as a preceptor, charge nurse, unit educator, and/ or nurse clinician.• Communicates and collaborates with medical staff and interdisciplinary team to effectively plan and manage theunit/department.• Serves as a role model for staff and supports the hospital and nursing department’s goals and strategies.• Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span, assesses the data reflective of thepatient’s status, and interprets the necessary information needed to identify each patient’s requirements relative to his or herage specific needs.• Coordinates the care and delegates as appropriate to other team members on a defined group of patients.• Documents patient care in a knowledgeable, skillful, and consistent manner meeting all required and regulatory standards. Thisincludes but is not limited to patient assessment, education, medication administration, treatments, and patient safety.• Demonstrates competency in nursing skills and use of patient care/unit equipment as defined by unit/department-specificrequisite skills.• Prioritizes patient care in an ongoing manner in accordance with Evidence-Based Practice Standards of Care.• Practices effective problem identification and resolution.• Delegates tasks and duties to healthcare team members in accordance with the patient’s needs and the team member’scapabilities and qualifications.• Communicates appropriate information regarding patient condition or unit concerns to other health care team members.• Demonstrates caring practices by providing a compassionate and therapeutic environment for patients and their families.• Demonstrates awareness of legal issues and patients’ rights.

Qualifications

Education/Training• Graduate of an approved school of nursing.• Meets all mandatory, developmental, and performance competency requirements for Orlando Health and unit/department.

Licensure/Certification• Maintains current State of Florida RN license or valid eNLC multistate RN license• Maintains current BLS/Healthcare Provider certification.• ACLS, NRP, PALS, TNCC are required for certain areas. NRP required for Neonatal Intensive care Unit (NICU).

Experience• 1 year experience in cardiac surgical cases (Open Heart)