About this role
Job Description
Saint Luke’s South Hospital in Overland Park, KS is seeking nurses with experience with higher acuity patients (Intensive Care, ED, procedural areas) to join our Interventional Radiology team. You will have the opportunity to learn and grow in your career, experiencing new procedures and clinical research. This IR – Special Procedures nurse position is a vital team member in providing care and sedation for organ biopsies pre and post organ transplant, acute pulmonary and arterial thrombectomies, Stroke intervention, intracranial hemorrhage intervention, embolectomies, targeted hepatic cancer treatment, drain placements, and port and dialysis catheter placements as well as other procedures. You will be supported by leading technology while working in an innovative environment. Join us in our vision of being, “The Best Place to Get Care. The Best Place to Give Care.”
Hours: This position is PRN.
Responsibilities:
Utilizes the nursing process
Delegates tasks appropriately
Demonstrates increasing discriminatory judgement in interpreting data and prioritizes appropriately
Initiates actions to improve nursing practice patient care and unit processes
Serves as a day to day resource to colleagues at unit and departmental levels
Provides positive formal or informal leadership within unit and hospital
Works well with multidisciplinary teams consisting of Interventional Radiologists, Anesthesiology, Specialty Service providers, and nursing peers.
We are seeking patient centered, motivated nurses who are committed to providing exceptional care. To be successful, you will need to keep the patient experience at the forefront, possess strong multi-tasking and troubleshooting skills, and have the ability to provide proactive care in collaborative team environment. The ideal candidate will be compassionate, empathetic, and great at making connections with patients short term. We are seeking nurses who are ready to learn; this team is supportive and ready to teach.
Job Requirements
Applicable Experience:
1 yearBasic Life Support - American Heart Association or Red Cross, Registered Nurse - VariousAssociate DegreeJob Details
PRNDay (United States of America)The best place to get care. The best place to give care. Saint Luke’s 12,000 employees strive toward that vision every day. Our employees are proud to work for the only faith-based, nonprofit, locally owned health system in Kansas City. Joining Saint Luke’s means joining a team of exceptional professionals who strive for excellence in patient care. Do the best work of your career within a highly diverse and inclusive workspace where all voices matter.
Join the Kansas City region's premiere provider of health services. Equal Opportunity Employer.
Other facts
About Saint Luke's Health System
About Saint Luke’s Health System
Saint Luke’s serves the West Region of BJC Health System as a faith-based, nonprofit, aligned health system committed to providing the highest levels of excellence in compassionate health care and health-related services. Saint Luke’s cares for patients in 65 specialty services across 67 counties in Missouri and Kansas. Saint Luke’s Hospital has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as one of the elite hospitals in the nation. For more than 140 years, Saint Luke’s has been dedicated to enhancing the physical, mental, and spiritual health of the diverse communities we serve.
Saint Luke’s offers:
- The region’s longest continuously operating adult heart transplant program and one of the nation’s leading cardiovascular programs at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute
- Treatment for complex brain and spinal cord diseases and one of the nation’s leading stroke reversal programs at the nationally ranked Saint Luke’s Marion Bloch Neuroscience Institute
- The region’s only treatment center dedicated exclusively to treating metastatic breast cancer—the Koontz Center for Advanced Breast Cancer at Saint Luke’s Cancer Institute
- Saint Luke’s Convenient and Urgent Care clinics for treatment of minor illnesses and injuries
- Liver and kidney transplantation programs
- A comprehensive maternal-fetal diagnostic and treatment center
- Three Neonatal Intensive Care Units, including a Level IIIb NICU at Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City
- Saint Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute, the only comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation hospital of its kind in the region
- A nationally recognized children's behavioral health center, Saint Luke’s Hospital Crittenton Children’s Center
What you'll do
- The nurse will provide care and sedation for various interventional radiology procedures, serving as a resource to colleagues and demonstrating leadership within the unit. They will utilize the nursing process and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to ensure exceptional patient care.
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