Job description
Registered Nurse - Cath Lab
Location: Midland, MI
Start Date: 10-12-2026
Contract Type: Travel Contract
Shift Type: Day shifts, 7:00 AM - 5:30 PM, 40-hour guarantee; weekend call 1-2 nights per week; on-call 10 days per month including IR/Vascular and STEMI
Hours per Week: 60
Candidate Pay Rate: $77.00 per hour
About United Health Care Staffing
At United Health Care Staffing (UHC Staffing), we believe healthcare staffing should be more than just finding a job. We are here to connect amazing professionals with opportunities that make their careers exciting, rewarding, and meaningful. With us, you're not just signing up for a contract you are joining a team that's got your back, answers your calls, and maybe even cracks a joke or two to brighten your day. Think of us as the travel buddy who handles the logistics while you focus on what you do best helping people heal.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Provide expert nursing care before, during, and after angiography, interventional, and cardiac catheterization procedures
- Conduct pre-procedure assessments, pre-medication, documentation of the cath process, post-cath care, and patient education
- Scrub in for procedures and assist the cardiac catheterization lab team
- Perform cardiac diagnostic nursing procedures including stress echocardiograms, treadmill exams, nuclear and pharmacologic stress testing, tilt table, echocardiograms, cardioversions, and transesophageal echocardiograms
- Assist with prep, procedure, and recovery for interventional radiology procedures
- Evaluate and screen patients for safety prior to testing
- Provide sedation monitoring in accordance with hospital policy and document appropriately
- Apply Holter monitors, event monitors, and ambulatory blood pressure monitors
- Perform pacemaker interrogations and insert PICC lines as a vascular access expert
- Operate and manage equipment including cardiac output, hemodynamic monitoring, pacemakers/ICDs, intraaortic balloon pump, crash cart, IV pumps, defibrillators, point of care glucometers, and stress machines
- Record all pertinent information on appropriate data sheets
- Develop, review, and enhance cardiovascular education materials and programs
Qualifications
- Active Michigan RN license required (LARA and/or Nursys must show active MI license)
- Current AHA BLS certification required
- Current AHA ACLS certification required
- Cath Lab RN experience required
- Maclab (hemodynamics) experience required
- Basic knowledge of IR and Vascular required
- Impella experience required
- Knowledge and operation of intraaortic balloon pump required
- Epic EMR experience required
- Travel work experience preferred
- Permanent address must be outside 50-mile radius (facility will not consider local candidates)
- Skills checklist current to 1 year pertinent to Cath Lab required
- 2 supervisory reference forms completed within last two years required
- All scheduling requests must be made at time of submission
Education
- Responsibilities
- (35%)*
- Performs nursing care of the catheterization/angiography cardiovascular patient. Conducts other cardiac diagnostic nursing procedures according to department protocol. Assisting in stress echocardiogram, routine treadmill exam, nuclear and pharmacologic stress testing, tilt table, echocardiograms (NS/Definity), cardioversions, and transesophageal echocardiograms. Assists with prep, procedure, and recovery for other interventional radiology procedures. Evaluates and screens patients for safety prior to performing testing. Provides sedation monitoring in accordance with hospital policy and documents appropriately. Holter monitor application, Event monitor application, and Ambulatory blood pressure monitor application, pacemaker interrogations. Inserts PICC lines and functions as a vascular access expert to meet patients needs. Performs other necessary tasks as assigned by manager.
- (35%)*
- Operates equipment and manages supplies, i.e., cardiac output, hemodynamic, pacemakers/ICDs, intraaortic balloon pump, crash cart, IV pumps, defibrillators, point of care glucometer/blood sugar testing, stress machines, and other nursing supplies (Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE/IV etc).
- (15%)*
- Scrubs in for procedures with the physician.
- (15%)*
Knowledge & Skills
- Cardiac catheterization
- Patient care
- Sedation monitoring
- Scrub in procedures
- PICC lines
- Pacemaker interrogations
- Maclab hemodynamics
- IR & Vascular
- Impella
- Intraaortic balloon pump
- Epic EMR
- BLS and ACLS
- Stress testing and echocardiography support
- Holter and event monitor application
- Vascular access expertise
Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision coverage to keep you healthy
- 401K retirement savings plan for your future
- Life Insurance and peace of mind
- Paid Time Off to recharge and explore
- A supportive team that values YOU
- Access to advanced Cath Lab technology and Epic EMR
Travel Perks: Explore Midland, MI
Explore Dow Gardens, catch a Great Lakes Loons game, stroll the Tridge, visit Midland Center for the Arts, hike at Chippewa Nature Center, and take day trips to Frankenmuth and Saginaw Bay.
Apply Now
Ready to start your next adventure as a Registered Nurse - Cath Lab? Let's get you moving forward!
Send your resume to [email protected] or call us at 408-441-9200 today.
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Why UHCS
Weekly or bi-weekly pay, medical/dental/vision, a SIMPLE IRA with employer contribution, tests paid on qualifying assignments with payroll deduction available, and one recruiter who stays with you for the whole assignment — reachable after hours. Every placement is credentialed to Joint Commission standards, so your packet is accepted the first time.