The Cardiac Catheterization/Electrophysiology Laboratory (CCL) Registered Nurse (RN) delivers and manages the care of patients undergoing therapeutic and diagnostic cardiology procedures including both inpatients and outpatients in a supervised planned training program.
Duties include but are not limited to: Promoting patient safety, continuity/quality of care and general well-being of the patient. Maintaining clinical competencies through continuous study, in-services, and required training activities based on education and experience, may be assigned responsibilities as preceptor or clinical nurse leader. Knowledge of conscious sedation policies and procedures.
Specific medication and IV therapy knowledge of emergency drugs, sedating agents, narcotics, reversal agents, and their compatibility with IV fluids. Ability to insert peripheral IV catheters. Ensuring safe patient care during invasive procedure or surgery, the RN actively participates in all steps of Universal Protocol, including pre-procedure verification process and "time-out". Ability to adapt to a fluid environment. Coordinating outpatient procedure scheduling.
Participating in procedures throughout the day and assist with pre / post recovery for cardiology patients. Circulate, monitor and scrub for cardia catheterization and electrophysiology procedures. Care of complex patient population including STEMI, Structural, IABP, Impella, PCI, Pacemaker, ICD, and ablation. Participate in On-Call coverage (Monday - Friday, 6:00pm-7:30am and 24 hr. call Saturday- 7:30am Monday) rotation.
VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory Work Schedule: Monday through Friday, 7:30AM to 4:00PM or 7:30AM to 6:00PM.
Compressed/Flexible: May be available. Telework: Not authorized. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: May be authorized for highly qualified applicants. Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized.
Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education.
For further information, visit: http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html. Note: The National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission/NLNAC changed its name to ACEN in May 2013.
ACEN's website may be utilized to verify accredited programs using automated inquiry processes; however, for verification of any nursing program's accreditation prior to 1998, an automated inquiry cannot be used and ACEN must be contacted directly via their email contact information on the ACEN website to verify.) Note: In order to grant credit towards an appointment based on foreign nursing education higher than the associate degree level, formal degree equivalency validation from a recognized degree equivalency evaluation agency accepted by VA such as the International Consultants of Delaware (ICD) must be obtained.
Melody.Laughlin@va.gov · 253-583-1173
This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.
The posted pay range is $87285 – $161201/yr.
Applications close on 2026-11-11.
This position is open under the 'Fed Internal Search' hiring path.
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