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Job Type:
RegularScheduled Hours:
32
💙 Why You’ll Love Working with St. Elizabeth Healthcare
At St. Elizabeth Healthcare, every role supports our mission to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to the communities we serve. For more than 160 years, St. Elizabeth Healthcare has been a trusted provider of quality care across Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. We’re guided by our mission to improve the health of the communities we serve and by our values of excellence, integrity, compassion, and teamwork. Our associates are the heart of everything we do.
🌟 Benefits That Support You
We invest in you — personally and professionally.
Enjoy:
- Competitive pay and comprehensive health coverage within the first 30 days.
- Generous paid time off and flexible work schedules
- Retirement savings with employer match
- Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities
- Wellness, mental health, and recognition programs
- Career advancement through mentorship and internal mobility
Job Summary:
St. Elizabeth Healthcare is hiring an RN Exercise Nurse for our Stress department located within the Edgewood Hospital.Shift/Hours: Full-Time – 32 hours/week, First Shift. No evenings, weekends, or holidays required!
Job Description:
The best nursing career is right here.
The Exercise Nurse is a licensed registered professional nurse who is responsible and accountable for performing cardiac stress tests using evidence-based practice within in the Cardiac diagnostic testing area. This is accomplished by assessing, implementing and evaluating care according to established ethical and cultural codes and standards of nursing practices and working collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams. The Exercise Nurse is responsible to delegate tasks appropriately to other licensed and unlicensed health care team members.
Demonstrate respect, dignity, kindness and empathy in each encounter with all patients, families, visitors and other employees regardless of cultural background.
Job Duties:
- Patient Assessment: Review patient history and evaluate baseline data, EKG’s and blood pressures. Notify physician of abnormal values to prevent complications
- Completes all necessary steps pertaining to requested stress test to include: starting IV’s, monitoring of patient’s EKG, blood pressure and administration of medications. Will perform stress test under the supervision of a physician. Communicates with patient and assists the patient when necessary during the exam.
- Provides continuous presence and observation of the patient during exercise and recovery. Reports and records patient condition and changes during exam. Enters the patient data into stress test computer system
- Assists the physician within the department in other related studies.
- Assists with Performance Improvement program
- Maintains thorough knowledge of all equipment to insure accuracy, be able to trouble shoot during procedure to complete exam. Maintains equipment in a clean condition, reporting any defects as soon as possible to supervisor
- Assembles all necessary equipment/supplies for procedure. Follows all applicable safety steps required
- Provides for own personal/professional growth development.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
Education, Credentials, Licenses:
Licensed to practice nursing in the state where work is being performed.
If eligible, must have a Compact (multi-state) License in their primary state of residence.
BLS certified.
Specialized Knowledge:
EKG monitor experience.
Demonstrates basic knowledge of nursing theory, procedures and policies.
ACLS certified.
Kind and Length of Experience:
Two years’ experience in Critical Care Telemetry Unit.
FLSA Status:
Non-ExemptRight Career. Right Here. If you're looking for the right careers in healthcare, the right place to be is at St. Elizabeth. Join us, and you'll take pride in the level of care we offer our community.
