Senior Registered Nurse- Vascular Access

Responsibilities

• Serves as a patient advocate by focusing on patient needs, patient rights, confidentiality, and religious and cultural preferences.
• Serves as a resource for patients and other healthcare team members for specific clinical patient care issues.
• Provides patient care educational information and training to patient and family members for those requiring care in the Radiology Department.
• Maintains and implements knowledge of applicable rules, regulations, policies, laws and guidelines that impact or govern Radiology nursing practice, and ensures that Parkland Hospital is in compliance.
• Develops effective internal controls that promote adherence to applicable state/federal laws and the program requirements of accreditation agencies and federal, state, and private health plans.
• Maintains and updates knowledge and appropriate utilization of sanitation, infection control, safety, supplies, equipment, and materials.
• Performs appropriate patient assessments including continuous surveillance.
• Participates consistently in Universal Protocol and site marking identification.
• Recognizes changes in a patient's condition and provides appropriate interventions as necessary and ordered.
• Consults with other team members as required, notifies providers to report changes in patient condition and implements orders in a timely manner.
• Exercises independent judgment in providing and prioritizing safe nursing care to patients.
• Manages a radiology patient with varied medical conditions.
• Administers sedation and analgesia.
• Precisely monitors patient during procedures and uses monitor to record physiological status and documents accordingly.
• Affirms patient condition including vital sign monitoring and recognition of ECG changes, and initiates appropriate nursing interventions.
• Completes appropriate documentation.
• Maintains accurate and timely entries in patient care records and hospital documents.
• Ensures that all records and documents meet the standards, goals, and objectives of the Radiology department and Parkland.
• Works with other staff in providing direction to non-nursing staff.
• Participates in information exchanges with nursing and other Parkland staff that support the standards, mission, goals and objectives of the Radiology department and Parkland.
• Provides appropriate hand off any time care is relinquished.
• Serves as Charge Nurse as needed.
• Serves as a preceptor or trainer to newer nursing and clinical staff members as well as student trainees.
• Prepares and conducts an in-service educational program for the Radiology Nursing Department at least once per year.
• Identifies ways to improve work processes and patient and customer satisfaction. Makes recommendations to supervisor, implements and monitors results as appropriate in support of the overall goals of the Radiology department and Parkland.
• May serve on various unit and interdisciplinary committees as opportunities present.
• Proactively anticipates and responds to the needs of patients, their families, physicians, and coworkers.
• Demonstrates an energetic and positive approach to work.
• Maintains a positive working relationship with all Parkland internal and external customers, employees, etc.
• Demonstrates a sense of ownership and pays attention to details of the job to ensure all mandatory obligations are met.
• Stays abreast of the latest developments, advancements and trends in radiology nursing practice by attending seminars/workshops, reading professional journals and actively participating in professional organizations.

Qualifications

• Education: Must be a graduate from an accredited school of nursing. Prefer Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
• Experience: Must have two years of nursing experience. Prefer experience in an acute care, critical care, or Radiology setting.
• Certification/Registration/Licensure: Must have current, valid RN license or temporary RN license from the Texas Board of Nursing, or valid Compact RN license. Must have current healthcare provider BLS for Healthcare Providers certification from one of the following: American Heart Association, American Red Cross, Military Training Network. Must have current Advanced Life Support (ALS) or Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification on hire or placement in role. Certification must be from one of the following: American Heart Association, American Red Cross, Military Training Network.