Interventional Radiology Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN)

Job Description

The Advanced Practice Registered Nurse (APRN) provides assessment, management and outcome evaluation for patients in inpatient and outpatient settings. The APRN serves as a resource to educate patients, families, professional nurses, and staff; functions as a liaison between patient, family and UofL Physicians staff; and participates in clinical research.

Specific Responsibilities

• Provide direct clinical services for critically ill adult patients with multiple medical problems or disease in collaboration with the radiology physician team.
  • Obtain patient health histories and complete physical examinations.
  • Document pertinent normal and abnormal findings and narrative summaries within the medical record.
  • Order and interpret appropriate diagnostic and laboratory tests.
  • Explain the necessity, risks, and benefits of anticipated procedures to patients, family, and other staff.
  • Organize, perform, and document approved therapeutic or diagnostic procedures based upon the patient’s clinical status.
  • Formulate and initiate a treatment plan for acute illness management in collaboration with the radiology physician team.
  • Utilize prescriptive privileges within the confines of Kentucky state law.
  • Assess patients for change in status and institute appropriate interventions.
  • Initiate necessary emergency interventions to stabilize patients.
  • Provide patient-family centered care by communicating effectively with patients and family members.
  • Utilize current research and evidence-based practice decision-making in all clinical practice.
  • Incorporate clinical research findings in the development and implementation of standards of care.
  • Serve as a clinical leader and expert to nursing staff and members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Demonstrate responsibility for professional practice through active participation in hospital-led Nurse Practitioner initiatives, participation in professional organizations, and continuing education.
• Ensures patient eligibility for Low Dose Lung CT Lung Cancer Screening and shared decision making is present and documented.
• Ensures patient information is entered in the LDCT Registry promptly.
• Provides results and consultation to LDCT patients, as well as provides other necessary results.
• Ensures follow-up scans are scheduled and adhered to.
• Provides education on LDCT for clinicians to promote testing appropriately.
• Collaboratively work with service chiefs, physicians, nurses, and other interdisciplinary departments to achieve hospital-defined goals.
• Performs all other activities by proactively identifying problems and solutions for the welfare of the patients, community, and hospital.