Unit Description: The EP lab staff nurse provides professional nursing care to patients in varying state of health and illness by assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of the nursing caring for patients undergoing EP procedures. There two EP labs: device and ablation, and they run ten hours per day, from 7:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. The primary patient population are adolescences through end of life, with cardiac arrhythmia, syncope, heart failure, s/p cardiac arrest or risk of sudden death. Types of EP procedures include Diagnostic Electrophysiology studies, Diagnostic infusion studies, Structural heart procedures- LAAO implantation, Cardiac ablation, Cardioversion. Implantation and follow-up of Cardiac rhythm management devices such as Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators, Pacemakers, Leadless pacemakers, Cardiac resynchronization devices, Implantable loop recorders
On-call: 4 shifts/months, or once/week 1730-1930