Cardiac Stress Testing

Stress Lab Nurse

The Stress Lab Nurse provides care for patients undergoing multiple types of stress testing and monitoring. The RN ensures the safety and wellbeing of the patient through a supportive clinical environment with trained healthcare providers and appropriate equipment and monitoring capabilities. The Stress Lab Nurse will triage patients into the appropriate testing category based upon the physicians orders and patients clinical history. The incumbent will initiate the correct stress test protocol and monitor the condition of the patient before during and after the test. Specific duties include but are not limited to monitoring vital signs obtaining and interpreting EKGs and identifying rhythm changes communicating with all team members including Cardiologists Nuclear Med ECHO and Vascular. The stress nurse will utilize critical thinking skills to identify critical findings and initiate emergency measures. The position is also responsible for applying and reading heart monitors ambulatory BP monitors and overnight pulse oximeters.

Education: Associates in Nursing (ADN) or an Advanced health care degree or Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) required.

Licensure/Certification: Current VA RN license. Certified in BLSAdvanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)

Experience: Two years of Critical care nursing exp.

Company Information: Augusta Health is a mission-driven independent nonprofit community health system located in Fishersville Virginia in Virginias scenic Shenandoah Valley. Augusta Health offers a full continuum of inpatient and outpatient which includes Augusta Medical Center a 255 bed inpatient facility and Augusta Medical Group which is comprised of 40 practice locations and four urgent care locations.

Equal Opportunity: Augusta Health recruits hires and promotes qualified candidates for employment without regard to age color disability gender identity or expression marital status national or ethnic origin political affiliation race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation veteran or military discharge status and family medical or genetic information.