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Registered Nurse (RN) Cardiac Cath & EP Educator | Sentara Heart Hospital

Sentara Heart Hospital, located on the campus of Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, is hiring a full-time Registered Nurse, Nursing Professional Development Generalist (Educator), supporting our Cardiac Catheterization and Electrophysiology (EP) Labs.

Combine your passion for cardiovascular nursing and education while helping nurses build confidence, strengthen clinical skills, and deliver exceptional patient care.

Location: Sentara Heart Hospital – Norfolk, VA

Position Status: Full-time, 40 hours per week

Shift: Days, with flexible daytime hours

On Call: No call required

Education Requirements

  • Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) required.
  • Master’s degree preferred.

Certification/Licensure Requirements

  • Current Registered Nurse (RN) license required.
  • Basic Life Support (BLS) required within 90 days of hire.

Experience Requirements

  • Two years of clinical RN experience required.
  • Experience in an Electrophysiology (EP) Lab or Cardiac Catheterization (Cath) Lab required.
  • Process improvement, project management, precepting, and nursing education experience strongly preferred.
  • Experience supporting competency validation, compliance, department audits, and policy and procedure implementation preferred.

The Nursing Professional Development Generalist assumes operational responsibility for developing and implementing staff education within designated populations. Serves as a learning facilitator supporting onboarding, orientation, practice transitions, continuing education, and ongoing clinical competency. Collaborates with department leadership to support compliance, maintain standards of practice, and promote quality, safety, and positive patient outcomes through education, competency validation, department audits, and evidence-based practice initiatives.

The Impact of a Dedicated Cath & EP Educator

The complexity of Cath and EP Lab services, expanding technology, and ongoing need for competency validation make a dedicated educator essential to supporting patient safety, staff development, and regulatory compliance.

Department competency and orientation requirements encompass extensive training in procedural workflows, equipment, emergency response, patient monitoring, sedation, device management, and advanced EP technologies.

In this role, you will help translate these requirements into effective onboarding, individualized orientation, ongoing education, and hands-on skill validation—preparing staff to deliver safe, confident, and consistent care.

Why Join the Sentara Heart Hospital Cardiac Cath & EP Team?

Join a team recognized for cardiovascular excellence. In its 2026 Best Hospitals report, U.S. News & World Report recognized Sentara Norfolk General Hospital as No. 1 in Hampton Roads and No. 3 in Virginia for cardiology and heart and vascular surgery.

Sentara Norfolk General Hospital also earned the American College of Cardiology’s 2026 NCDR Chest Pain–MI Registry Platinum Performance Achievement Award, recognizing sustained achievement in guideline-based heart attack care.

As the Cardiac Cath & EP Educator, you will help sustain this commitment to excellence by partnering with nursing leaders, preceptors, and interdisciplinary teams to strengthen clinical readiness and promote continuous learning.

Key Responsibilities

  • Clinical Competency and Skill Validation: Coordinate and oversee initial and ongoing competency assessments, annual skill checks, and hands-on validation to ensure staff demonstrate safe, effective clinical practice.
  • Compliance and Regulatory Readiness: Support staff adherence to organizational standards, regulatory requirements, and department expectations. Identify educational needs and collaborate with leadership to address gaps.
  • Policies and Procedures: Assist with developing, reviewing, updating, and implementing department policies and procedures. Educate staff on changes and reinforce consistent application in clinical practice.
  • Department Audits: Conduct or assist with department audits to evaluate adherence to policies, procedures, documentation standards, and clinical practices. Use findings to guide education and improvement efforts.
  • Onboarding and Orientation: Assist with onboarding and individualized orientation plans for new team members. Collaborate with preceptors and leaders to monitor progress, identify learning needs, and validate readiness for independent practice.
  • Continuing Education: Develop and deliver education related to cardiac procedures, equipment, patient safety, sedation, emergency response, device management, and evidence-based nursing practice.
  • Performance Improvement: Partner with interdisciplinary teams on initiatives that strengthen staff performance, improve workflows, and enhance patient outcomes.

Clinical Areas Supported

  • Cardiac Catheterization: Diagnostic catheterizations, coronary interventions, complex cardiac procedures, hemodynamic monitoring, and associated patient care.
  • Electrophysiology: EP studies, cardiac ablations, cardioversions, advanced EP technologies, and implanted cardiac devices, including pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs).
  • Procedural Safety and Recovery: Patient assessment, cardiac monitoring, safe medication administration, sedation, recognition of complications, and emergency response.

Incentives and Support

Sentara offers career advancement opportunities, professional development resources, tuition assistance, certification support, and a comprehensive benefits package designed to support you and your family.

Compensation and Benefits

We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, and benefits.

Additional compensation may be available based on the role and applicable eligibility requirements. Compensation within the range may vary based on qualifications, experience, location, market conditions, and business needs. If an annual salary is posted, it is based on a full-time colleague working 2,080 hours annually.

Sentara offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance; 401(k)/403(b) with employer match; paid time off; paid parental and military leave; educational assistance or student loan repayment; and voluntary benefits.

About Sentara Norfolk General Hospital and Sentara Heart Hospital

Sentara Heart Hospital is located on the campus of Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia. These teams provide specialized cardiovascular care and opportunities for nurses to grow their clinical expertise, collaborate across disciplines, and contribute to improvements in patient care.

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We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, and benefits. The base pay range for full-time employment is $100,380.80 – $148,844.80 annually. Additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, on-call pay, shift premiums, extra-shift incentives, or bonus opportunities. Compensation within the range may vary based on qualifications, experience, location, market conditions, and business needs. Note: If an annual salary is posted, it is based on a full-time colleague working 2,080 hours annually. Sentara offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance; 401(k)/403(b) with employer match; paid time off (vacation, sick time, and holidays); paid parental and military leave; educational assistance or student loan repayment; and voluntary benefits.

Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, located in Norfolk, VA, is a 525-bed tertiary care facility that is home to the only Level I Adult Trauma Center and burn trauma unit in Hampton Roads, and also serves as the primary teaching hospital for Eastern Virginia Medical School. In addition to the high-quality heart program at Sentara Heart Hospital, our facility is home to Nightingale Regional Air Ambulance and several other dedicated facilities and specialized services. As a recognized accredited Comprehensive Stroke Center, and Magnet hospital for nursing excellence, our hospital specializes in heart and vascular, neurosciences, neurosurgery, urology, oncology, spine care, advanced imaging, behavioral health, maternity, and women’s health, including a state-of-the-art neonatal intensive care unit.ed Imaging Center at Sentara Princess Anne Hospital is conveniently located in the heart of Virginia Beach and offers high-speed digital diagnostic equipment that provides faster and more precise results. The center provides one of the region’s most advanced imaging technologies interpreted by board certified radiologists specializing in various areas of imaging.

Sentara Health, an integrated, not-for-profit health care delivery system, celebrates more than 135 years in pursuit of its mission – “we improve health every day.” Sentara is one of the largest health systems in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic and Southeast, and among the top 20 largest not-for-profit integrated health systems in the country, with 34,000 employees, 12 hospitals in Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina including 10 hospitals with the prestigious Magnet® recognition, and the Sentara Health Plans division which serves more than 1 million members in Virginia and Florida. Sentara is recognized nationally for clinical quality and safety, and is strategically focused on innovation and creating an extraordinary health care experience for our patients and members. Sentara was named a Health Quality Innovator of the Year (2024), was recognized by Forbes as “America’s Best-In-State Employer” (2024), “Best Employer for Veterans” (2022, 2023), and “Best Employer for Women” (2020), and named to IBM Watson Health’s “Top 15 Health Systems” (2021, 2018).

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A woman smiling as a healthcare worker helps her with arm exercises in a bright, sunlit room.

Our Culture

At Sentara, our differences are our strengths. The unique backgrounds, skills, and experiences that each Sentara colleague brings to work make Sentara special and allow us to deliver excellent service and care to our patients, members, and communities.

Our Benefits

We are committed to consistently enhancing our training, advancement tracks, work-life benefits, and more. Our goal is to make you feel more excited to be here every day!

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Two female doctors in lab coats smiling and chatting in a hospital hallway.
Two female doctors in lab coats smiling and chatting in a hospital hallway.
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Two nurses in scrubs smiling and chatting during a break, one holding a coffee cup in a bright hospital setting.

The Sentara Nursing Experience

Making a meaningful impact on health requires compassion, dedication, continuous learning, teamwork and collaboration. At Sentara, we also recognize that in valuing the professional and personal well-being of our nurses, we build a stronger, more supportive workplace for our nurses. And that’s making us healthier from the inside out. These principles unite our nurses across various roles and locations.

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The Sentara Clinical Experience

No matter where you choose to join us, in an inpatient or outpatient setting, you will be part of an interdisciplinary Clinical team passionate about quality care and patient safety. You will have access to the tools and technologies you need to succeed and the chance to learn and grow through training and educational programs so you can advance your career as a Clinical professional.

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The Sentara Support Services Experience

Each day, the Sentara Support Services team helps improve healthcare at more than 300 Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina sites. We perform various patient care activities, provide multiple services, and handle administrative functions that support our patients and their families. These vital functions include assisting the medical team in all aspects of medical care, such as treatments, procedures, and diagnostic and laboratory testing.

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The Medical Group Experience

As part of Sentara Health, Sentara Medical Group providers have diverse opportunities across regions and inpatient and outpatient locations. For those providers based in one of 12 hospitals, we have close working relationships with the administration, ensuring a collegial and collaborative environment where all can come together around shared initiatives.

Guided by a dedicated board of providers, Sentara Medical Group not only offers leadership opportunities for its providers but also underscores the group’s crucial role in fulfilling Sentara’s overarching mission to meet the needs of our diverse patient populations, some of our most vulnerable communities. Our physicians and APPs enjoy opportunities for both personal and professional career growth through a network of resources aimed to cultivate an environment suitable for a lifelong career home.

Your Perspective Matters

Nurses are the heartbeat of our exceptional team. Our approach empowers nurses to actively participate in decision-making. Our nurses have a stake in shaping their workplace as well as their own career growth; one of the benefits of our focus on supporting and valuing team members. This framework encompasses our nursing mission, vision, values, philosophy, and the essential elements of our Professional Practice Model.

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Sentara Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to the hiring, advancement, and fair treatment of every individual. Sentara and its affiliates do not discriminate against any individual or group of individuals on the basis of race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, marital status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, medical condition, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristics.

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Sentara Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to the hiring, advancement, and fair treatment of every individual. Sentara and its affiliates do not discriminate against any individual or group of individuals on the basis of race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, marital status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, medical condition, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristics.

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