Registered Nurse - Interventional Radiology

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MO-SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - St. Louis

Worker Type:

PRN1

Job Highlights:

Join a team where your work matters—every moment, every patient, every community. At SSM Health, you’ll be empowered to grow, supported to thrive, and inspired to make a lasting impact.

In this role, you will provide hands-on support in a fast-paced procedural care environment, caring for both inpatient and outpatient populations before and after procedures within the combined Cardiac Cath Lab (CCL) and Interventional Radiology (IVR) team. Your attention to detail, compassion, and ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams will help ensure safe, efficient patient flow and exceptional care experiences. You'll play a key role in patient assessments, admissions, discharge education, IV starts, and post-procedural care while adapting to the needs of a growing, cross-trained team. As the department works toward merging CCL and IVR operations to provide broader coverage, and improve flexibility, you'll have opportunities to expand your skills through ongoing education and professional development. This full-time role offers four 10-hour shifts, with IVR team members participating in approximately 7-9 call shifts per month, including one weekend every four weeks. If you have a positive attitude, strong critical thinking skills, and enjoy working in a collaborative setting where every day brings new learning opportunities, this role is perfect for you.

Department: Interventional Radiology

Schedule: 7:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. with on-call requirements.

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Job Summary:
Plans coordinates and implements care to the adult patient in the Interventional Radiology department. Ensures that quality care is provided in an efficient and safe manner consistent with the unit's standards of care and demonstrates competency skills appropriate to the clinical area.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Performs on the Interventional Radiology procedure team as circulator, scrub, or monitor.
- Performs in holding by ensuring patient is correctly prepped for the procedure. Ensures needed information, such as history and physical (H&P), is timely.
- Utilizes critical judgment to analyze patient assessment and administers medications on all patients, including the critically ill patient and reports abnormal information to the physician in a timely manner.
- Performs hemostasis safely and properly with or without vascular devices.
- Routinely enters patient orders and charges. Checks charges to ensure accuracy.
- Provides care of the critically ill patient with the ability to function independently in a stressful situation.
- Routinely educates patients and families based on assessed needs, documents education provided, and keeps them informed of tests and treatments. Provides clear patient instruction on what to expect during the perioperative procedure.
- Assists families to the cardiology area or cath lab area by escorting when necessary.
- Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
- Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

- Graduate of accredited school of nursing or education equivalency for licensing

EXPERIENCE

- No experience required

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

- Constant use of speech to share information through oral communication.
- Constant standing and walking.
- Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
- Frequent sitting, reaching and keyboard use/data entry.
- Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
- Frequent use of smell to detect/recognize odors.
- Frequent use of hearing to receive oral communication, distinguish body sounds and/or hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
- Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
- Occasional lifting/moving of patients.
- Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting, gripping and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
- Occasional driving.
- Rare crawling and running.

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS

State of Work Location: Illinois

- Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
- And
- Registered Professional Nurse (RN) - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR)
- And
- Advanced Life Support (ALS) - American Heart Association (AHA)
- Or
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) - American Heart Association (AHA)

State of Work Location: Missouri

- Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
- And
- Registered Nurse (RN) - Missouri Division of Professional Registration
- Or
- Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State
- And
- Advanced Life Support (ALS) - American Heart Association (AHA)
- Or
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) - American Heart Association (AHA)

State of Work Location: Oklahoma

- Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
- And
- Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State
- Or
- Registered Nurse (RN) - Oklahoma Board of Nursing (OBN)
- And
- Advanced Life Support (ALS) - American Heart Association (AHA)
- Or
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) - American Heart Association (AHA)

State of Work Location: Wisconsin

- Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
- And
- Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State
- Or
- Registered Nurse (RN) - Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services
- And
- Advanced Life Support (ALS) - American Heart Association (AHA)
- Or
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) - American Heart Association (AHA)

Work Shift:
Day Shift (United States of America)

Job Type:
Employee

Department:
4203000100 Interventional Radiology

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 0

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