Registered Nurse Medical Imaging

R107790
locations
Utah Valley Hospital
time type
Full time
posted on
Posted 6 Days Ago
job requisition id
R107790

Job Description:

Responsible for nursing support to all modalities of the Imaging Services Department. They provide patient care management including patient assessment, education, and follow-up. They also provide conscious sedation care, pharmacology, and manage supplies. This person scrubs in with the Radiologist and assists with basic interventional procedures. This person is accountable to function in the scope of nursing practice to provide safe, efficient, and therapeutically effective patient focused care.

Shift Details: Mon-Fri with on call requirements)

Job Essentials

Assess:
Perform appropriate assessment of physical, social and psychological status (including cognitive, communicative and developmental skills as appropriate).
Seeks and evaluates information acquired from other members of interdisciplinary team: patient, family, physician, non-nursing disciplines, support staff, other.

Plan:
Use assessment information and critical thinking skills to collaboratively develop individualized plan of care.
Actively seek patient and family involvement to develop plan of care.
Actively involve interdisciplinary team and physician to develop plan of care.
Collaboratively plans and prepares patients for further support needs once the current episode of care outcomes are met (i.e., teaching, referrals, and follow-up).

Implement:
Directs the interdisciplinary care team via delegation, coordination and collaboration as appropriate.
Provides or delegates care consistent with plan of care, guidelines of care and professional licensure provisions.

Evaluate:
Evaluates patient response to interventions through review of achievement of goals, clinical outcomes, patient and family satisfaction.
Revises plan of care as indicated, and reassesses changes as appropriate.

Professionalism:
Promote nursing profession and participate in development of others.
Integrates legal and ethical standards into practice: complies with regulatory standards, practices within scope of licensure, provides accurate & timely documentation, and understands legal implications of care delivery.

Imaging Specific:
Ensures proper patient identification, order verification, and prepares the patient for the exam.
Pre-Op and Post-Op care of patients for interventional procedure.
Assists Radiologist in basic interventional procedures.
Patient care management including conscious sedation, hemodynamic monitoring, patient care assessment, and ECG interpretation.
Completes room preparation and turnover for all interventional procedures.
May perform PICC line insertions and/or central line.
Successfully completes angio and interventional exams. Removes tunnel catheter.
Scrubs in and supports the Radiologist during procedures. Anticipates procedural needs and responds timely and efficiently.
Proficient in a broad spectrum of interventional procedures, including advanced procedures (ablation procedures, stents, thrombolectomy, trans-catheter occlusion, alcohol ablation).
Applies sutures and appropriately cares for wound.
Coordinates patient care with Radiologist, staff, and other areas as needed.
Thoroughly and accurately completes all required documentation, including time stamps and image storage.

Minimum Qualifications

Current State RN license.
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Basic Life Support Certification (BLS) for healthcare providers.
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Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)
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Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)

(Applicants must either have required additional certifications (e.g. ACLS, PALs, NRP) upon hire or must obtain them within a specified timeframe determined by service line and department guidelines.)

RNs with less than 12 months of working experience as an RN prior to joining Intermountain must obtain their BSN within five years of their start date.
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RNs hired or promoted into this role need to have or obtain their BSN within three years of hire or promotion.

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (BSN) from an accredited institution.

Understanding of basic x-ray principles and practices.

Physical Requirements:

Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.
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Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.
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Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc.
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Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
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Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment. This includes pushing/pulling gurneys and portable equipment, including heavy items. Often required to navigate crowded and busy rooms (full of equipment, power cords on the floor, etc).
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May be expected to stand in a stationary position for an extended period of time.

Anticipated job posting close date:

06/25/2024

Location:

Utah Valley Hospital

Work City:

Provo

Work State:

Utah

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.

$ $52.94

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