Rn - outpatient cardiology - ft

LEAVE BEDSIDE NURSING BEHIND WITHOUT LEAVING CARDIOLOGY BEHIND WHILE EARNING UP TO A $25,000 SIGN-ON BONUS!

If you're an RN who enjoys critical thinking, cardiac assessment, and hands-on patient care but are ready for a more predictable schedule, this opportunity offers the best of both worlds.

Join Guthrie Lourdes Cardiology in on Riverside Drive in Binghamton, NY, where you'll support a busy outpatient cardiology practice alongside 11 experienced Cardiology providers. This is not a typical clinic nursing role focused primarily on phone triage and paperwork. Instead, you'll play a key role in outpatient cardiac stress testing, working directly with patients before, during, and after diagnostic procedures while utilizing the clinical judgment and assessment skills you've worked hard to develop.

You'll care for patients with a wide range of cardiovascular conditions, including coronary artery disease, heart failure, arrhythmias, structural heart disease, syncope, and hypertension. As part of a dedicated cardiology team, you'll collaborate closely with providers, monitor patients throughout testing, recognize changes in condition, and help ensure safe, high-quality cardiovascular care every day.

Position Details:

• Full-time, Monday-Friday schedule
• Clinic hours: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM, No weekends, No Holidays, No on-call
• Outpatient cardiology and cardiac stress testing environment

Why Nurses Choose This Role:

• Up to $25,000 Sign-On Bonus
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental & Vision Benefits
• Generous PTO - Start accruing immediately
• 403(b) Retirement Plan with company match
• Tuition Reimbursement - Up to $7,500 annually
• Relocation Assistance available for qualified candidates
• Specialty cardiac nursing without inpatient bedside assignments
• Consistent weekday schedule that supports work-life balance
• Opportunity to remain hands-on and clinically engaged
• Direct collaboration with 11 Cardiology providers
• High-acuity outpatient patient population

This Role Is a Great Fit For:

• Telemetry RNs looking for a Monday-Friday schedule
• ICU or Critical Care nurses seeking a change of pace without sacrificing clinical complexity
• Emergency Department nurses who enjoy assessment-driven patient care
• Cardiology, Cath Lab, EP Lab, or Stress Lab nurses
• Clinic nurses looking to advance into a cardiovascular specialty
• RNs who enjoy patient interaction, diagnostics, and procedural support

Registered Nurses within the practice play an integral role in performing and monitoring exercise and pharmacologic stress testing. These diagnostic procedures require strong assessment skills, attention to detail, and the ability to recognize and respond to changes in patient condition. Nurses work closely with cardiologists and advanced practice providers to ensure safe, efficient, and patient-centered care.

For nurses who enjoy using their clinical expertise, working with a collaborative provider team, and making a meaningful impact on patient outcomes, this role offers a unique opportunity to build a rewarding career in cardiovascular care.

Position Summary:

The Registered Nurse (RN) provides professional, comprehensive nursing care for patients in an acute care environment. Accountable for the delivery of coordinated, safe, compassionate, therapeutic, evidence‐based quality care to patients and families, based on individual physical, emotional, and spiritual needs, and appropriate care strategies throughout the lifespan. Practices in accordance with the Nurse Practice Act in the state of employment, the American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics for Nurses, and the ANA scope and standards of practice. Essential functions and specific skills for the job are found in the unit specific onboarding checklist and in standards that are applicable to the specialty.

Education, License & Cert:

• Registered Nurse in the State of Practice.
• BSN in Nursing preferred.
• Any previously agreed upon effective date for obtaining a Bachelor's degree in nursing between individuals and facilities will remain in effect, including those who transition to their position from the NLRN Program.
• Any contract with specific time frames for obtaining a bachelor’s degree in nursing will supersede the above point and will remain in effect.
• Specialty Certification is preferred
• BLS certification.
• ACLS is unit dependent.

Experience:

The Registered Nurse must be a registered nurse currently licensed in the state of employment with at least one year of experience preferred. Alternately, the Registered nurse may have less than one year of experience if they have been transitioned to their position from the Newly Licensed Registered Nurse Residency (NLRN) Program. The Registered Nurse must meet the individual nursing unit specifications regarding educational requirements during employment. Must maintain BLS certification. ACLS is unit dependent. Specifications regarding educational requirements during employment are determined by the Nursing Department and Nursing Unit.

Essential Functions:

1. Employs Nursing Professional Practice: Assesses, diagnoses, plans, implements, and evaluates patients' care. Develops updates and coordinates the patients' plan of care to achieve patient goals and to optimize outcomes and transitions across the continuum. Monitors, records, and communicates patient condition as appropriate. Performs and maintains the currency of essential competencies as required by a specific area of hire and population served.
2. Advocates: Effectively advocates for ethical and holistic care by partnering in care planning to promote the autonomy, dignity, rights, values, and beliefs of those we serve.
3. Facilitates Learning: Fosters a learning environment for patients/families, nursing, and other members of the healthcare team, including student; Facilities formal and informal learning for patients/families, nursing, other members of the healthcare team, and community.
4. Aligns Practice with Safety and Quality: Accountable for safety, identifies and corrects problems, and integrates evidence and best practice into nursing care; uses data and evidence to improve patient outcomes. Aligns patient safety, self‐safety, and environmental safety as equally important for best outcomes.
5. Engages in Professional Development: Engages in ongoing professional development; practices at the top of license within the legal parameters of the Nurse Practice Act, the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses, and specialty standards. Promotes a culture of inquiry that explores, integrates, and disseminates research and evidence‐based practice.
6. Leader in Practice Setting & Community: demonstrates leadership as change agents using the collaborative leadership skills of advocacy, influence and innovation. In partnering with colleagues appropriately delegates, coordinates care, and collaborates with others as equal members of the inter‐professional care team to integrate nursing knowledge. Models professional behaviors as a representative of the nursing profession.
7. Participates in the planning and presentation of educational programs.
8. It is understood that this description is not intended to be all‐inclusive and that other duties may be assigned as necessary in the performance of the position.
9. May perform high level disinfection, based on departmental equipment.

Other Duties:

1. Proficiency in Information Technology, such as electronic health records, communication systems, computers, and equipment necessary to perform essential functions of the position.
2. Skilled to work with a wide range of staff as part of an interdisciplinary team, including physicians, nurses, and ancillary staff.
3. Ability to use independent, critical judgment in all aspects of patient care delivery.
4. Demonstrated interpersonal skills that convey a positive and supportive attitude.
5. Ability to effectively manage multiple responsibilities, urgent responses, and challenging situations.

The Pay Range for the position is $34.25 - $46.16 and is based on experience.

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Joining the Guthrie team allows you to become a part of a tradition of excellence in health care. In all areas and at all levels of Guthrie, you’ll find staff members who have committed themselves to serving the community.

The Guthrie Clinic is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The Guthrie Clinic is a non-profit, integrated, practicing physician-led organization in the Twin Tiers of New York and Pennsylvania. Our multi-specialty group practice of more than 500 physicians and 302 advanced practice providers offers 47 specialties through a regional office network providing primary and specialty care in 22 communities. Guthrie Medical Education Programs include General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Anesthesiology and Orthopedic Surgery Residency, as well as Cardiovascular, Gastroenterology and Pulmonary Critical Care Fellowship programs. Guthrie is also a clinical campus for the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine.