Unit Description:
Interventional Radiology nurses play a crucial role in the patient experience during minimally invasive, image-guided procedures.
IR nurses are responsible for demonstrating critical thinking and time management skills specific to procedural nursing ; p erforming comprehensive patient assessments that, under the direction of IR providers, guide patient care and intervention implementation- in routine and critical clinical circumstances ; m anaging their patient's hemodynamic and respiratory status ; establishing and maintaining IV access; titrating vasoactive intravenous medications; safely administering moderate sedation; accurately documenting in EPIC; utilizing and troubleshooting invasive monitoring devices; providing pre-, intra-, and post procedure support and education ; and a dvocating for their patients .
Call includes one weekend (Friday evening-Monday morning) and four weekdays (Monday through Thursday) every nine weeks. Set call schedule. Response time is 30 minutes.
- Greater than two years of experience as an RN is required . Previous experience in the administration and monitoring of patients receiving moderate sedation is recommended. Nursing experience in critical care nursing is preferred.
On-call: Required
Incentives: $10K RN Sign-on Bonus for full-time (pro-rated for part-time)
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