Imaging RN | RADIOLOGY

MEDICAL WEST HOSPITAL AUTHORITY • McCalla, AL

3d • Onsite

About The Position

As a Registered Nurse (RN) at UAB Medical West, you will play a crucial role in providing high-quality patient care. Your primary responsibility will be to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care plans, ensuring that all patients receive the best possible treatment and support. You will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to promote health and wellness, while also addressing any medical concerns that arise in the workplace. Additionally, you will be responsible for educating patients and their families about health management and preventive care. Ultimately, your efforts will contribute to a safe and healthy work environment, enhancing the overall well-being of employees and their families.

Requirements

• Current and valid Registered Nurse (RN) license in the state of Alabama.
• Current and valid ACLS certification
• Strong clinical assessment abilities
• Effective communication skills
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Organizational skills

Nice To Haves

• Proficiency in electronic health record (EHR) systems.

Responsibilities

• Provides specialized nursing assessment, medication administration, physiologic monitoring, emergency response, procedural assistance, recovery, and discharge support for patients undergoing nursing-dependent diagnostic and interventional imaging procedures.
• Patient assessment and preparation: Review medical history, allergies, medications, laboratory results, and prior reactions. Complete pre-procedure nursing assessments and confirm that patients meet procedure requirements. Educate patients about the procedure, medications, expected symptoms, recovery, and discharge instructions. Verify informed consent when required.
• Medication administration and monitoring: Administer medications under approved protocols and provider orders. Monitor heart rate, rhythm, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, symptoms, and level of consciousness. Support pharmacologic stress testing, including nuclear stress tests and dobutamine stress echocardiograms. Assist with heart-rate control and medication administration for coronary CT angiography. Monitor patients during tilt-table testing, sedation, and other higher-risk procedures.
• Procedural support: Provide nursing coverage for CT, MRI, Echocardiography, Nuclear Medicine, Ultrasound, and interventional imaging procedures. Establish and manage IV access, including assistance with difficult access. Assist physicians, advanced practice providers, and technologists during procedures. Coordinate patient flow and prioritize urgent inpatient, emergency, and outpatient examinations.
• Sedation and recovery: Assess patients before sedation and verify compliance with fasting and medication instructions. Administer or assist with moderate sedation when appropriately trained, credentialed, and permitted by hospital policy. Monitor patients throughout the procedure and during recovery. Determine readiness for discharge and ensure safe transportation arrangements.
• Emergency response and patient safety: Recognize and respond to contrast reactions, medication reactions, arrhythmias, hypotension, respiratory distress, and other changes in condition. Maintain readiness for emergency interventions, including use of emergency medications and equipment. Initiate emergency response procedures and assist with resuscitation when necessary. Ensure compliance with MRI safety, medication safety, infection prevention, and fall-prevention requirements.
• Coordination and documentation: Document assessments, medications, monitoring, patient response, recovery, and discharge instructions. Communicate with radiologists, cardiologists, hospitalists, anesthesia, technologists, inpatient nurses, and referring offices. Coordinate patients requiring implanted-device clearance, laboratory testing, medication adjustments, or specialty approval. Participate in quality improvement, policy development, audits, staff education, and emergency drills.
• Service-specific responsibilities: The Imaging Nurse may support: Nuclear and exercise stress testing, Dobutamine stress echocardiography, Transesophageal Echocardiogram (TEE), Coronary CT angiography, Tilt-table testing, MRI sedation or anxiolysis, CT- and ultrasound-guided procedures, Contrast-reaction management, Biopsies, drainages, aspirations, and other interventional procedures, Patient recovery and discharge following medication or sedation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level