Staff RN, PRN - Interventional Radiology

Piedmont Healthcare Inc.•Atlanta, GA

About The Position

The Staff RN provides nursing care in Interventional Radiology at Piedmont Atlanta Hospital. The role includes assessing patients’ physical, psychosocial, and health-history needs; organizing assessment data into individualized plans of care; carrying out care to achieve expected outcomes; and ensuring care is appropriate to each patient’s condition and severity. The nurse provides patient and family education, oversees ancillary and support team activities, communicates concerns to appropriate clinical leaders or physicians, and documents patient care. The position also follows professional nursing standards across disciplines, including coordinating care, promoting health and safety, practicing ethically and inclusively, collaborating with patients and other stakeholders, applying evidence and research, contributing to quality practice, and using resources responsibly.

Requirements

Graduate from a recognized, accredited school of nursing.
Current Georgia RN license and/or NLC/eNCL multistate licensure.
Basic Life Support (BCLS) certification.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree.
Nursing experience in a hospital setting.
One year in a hospital setting for PRN positions.

Responsibilities

Assess patients, collecting information about their physical, psychosocial, and health-history needs.
Consider the patient’s developmental age when performing assessments, treatments, and patient or family education.
Organize patient data into a plan of care, identify additional information needed, and make care decisions based on identified needs.
Identify expected patient outcomes and implement the plan of care to achieve them.
Provide care appropriate to the setting, patient needs, and severity of the condition, impairment, or disability.
Oversee activities of ancillary and support team members.
Identify teaching opportunities and provide resources to help patients achieve educational goals.
Communicate issues and concerns to the Charge Nurse, Clinical Manager, and/or physician as appropriate.
Document patient care and concerns in the patient record.
Collect and analyze healthcare data to identify actual or potential diagnoses, problems, and issues.
Develop individualized plans that prescribe strategies for measurable outcomes, coordinate care delivery, and evaluate progress toward goals.
Promote health and a safe environment; practice ethically and in accordance with diversity and inclusion principles.
Communicate effectively and collaborate with healthcare consumers and other stakeholders.
Lead within the professional practice setting and profession, seek current nursing knowledge and competence, and integrate evidence and research into practice.
Contribute to quality nursing practice and evaluate one’s own and others’ nursing practice.
Use appropriate resources to provide and sustain safe, effective, fiscally responsible, evidence-based nursing services.
Practice in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.