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RN Cath Lab

Dignity Health

Bakersfield, CAJob$45.55–79.04/hrSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago

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Compensation
$45.55–79.04/hr
Location
Bakersfield, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

California RN LicenseBasic Life Support CPRAdvanced Cardiac Life Support

Job overview

The Registered Nurse in the Cath Lab provides individualized care to patients before and after procedures, including assessment, intervention, and evaluation. The role involves complex treatments and equipment, responding to emergencies, and coordinating care with a multidisciplinary team. The posting requires critical care or emergency nursing experience, a California RN license, Basic Life Support, and Advanced Cardiac Life Support; previous Cath Lab experience is preferred.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Patient AssessmentPatient CareIABP Setup and TroubleshootingHemodynamic MonitoringAntithrombolytic TherapyECG MonitoringCardiopulmonary ResuscitationActivated Clotting Time TestingEmergency Response

Qualifications

High School GraduateCritical Care or Emergency Nursing ExperienceCalifornia RN LicenseBasic Life Support CPRAdvanced Cardiac Life SupportCath Lab Experience

Full job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery.

Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

To thrive in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

  • Assessment and Patient Care

  • Provides necessary assessment , intervention and evaluation for Cath Lab patients, Uses multidisciplinary approach to patient care.

  • Maintanis competence and functions independently with more complex treatments, procedures, and medical equipment such as set up and troubleshooting of IABP, Hemodynamic monitoring, Administration of Aniti-thrombolytic therapy, ECG monitors, cardiopulmonary arrest, perform activated clotting times (ACTs).

  • Act quickly and appropriately in life-threatening emergency situations.

  • Willingly participates and adheres to NPSG and The Joint Commission core measures to ensure safe patient care.

  • Holding room, Receives patients from nursing units and outside hospitals, Assesses pre-procedure needs and institues appropriate nursing care, provides post-procedure care following physician orders, directs transfer of post-procedure patients to appropriate nursing unit.

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Job Requirements

Required

  • High School Graduate Education level necessary to obtainrequired licensure and certifications

  • Experience in Critical Care or Emergency Nursing required., upon hire or

  • Registered Nurse: CA, upon hire and

  • Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire and

  • Advanced Cardiac Life Support, upon hire

Preferred

  • Previous Cath Lab experience, upon hire

Where You'll Work

Founded in 1956, Dignity Health - Memorial Hospital is a 385-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Bakersfield, California. Serving nearly 100,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including heart care, maternity care, and orthopedics. Additionally, Memorial Hospital has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leader by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and its Lauren Small Children’s Center is the first comprehensive pediatric program in Kern County.

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Pay Range

$45.55 - $79.04 /hour

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

How this job compares

Set against the 55,231 open Registered Nurse jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$45.55–79.04/hr
  • California median$53–74/hr1,441 hourly ranges
  • US median$38–54/hr22,746 hourly ranges

This range's midpoint, $62.30/hr, is close to the California median midpoint ($63/hr) — in the middle half of Registered Nurse hourly ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 2,230 open Registered Nurse jobs in California and 55,231 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
Registered Nurse postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (26,899 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a high school diploma; 17,228 of the 55,231 open Registered Nurse jobs (31%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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