About this role
Job Description
The Opportunity:
Saint Luke’s North Hospital of Kansas City is seeking a Registered Nurse to work in Nuclear Cardiology to work directly and collaboratively with an exercise physiologist and a nuclear medicine technologist. This role supervises exercise and pharmacologic stress testing for adult and geriatric patients. This position provides advanced ECG and arrhythmia interpretation and recognition. You will be responsible for handling radioactive material.
This is a nationally recognized team who is known for its leadership in stress testing with myocardial perfusion imaging. We have been at the forefront of incorporating cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) program, and the first dedicated digital PET camera in the nation. Our program is also dedicated to outcomes and quality of care research and is part of several peer-reviewed scientific papers that have recently been published.
This is a team dedicated to patient care and providing a multidisciplinary team approach to achieving positive patient outcomes. This is a strong positive group that utilizes strong communication, time management and critical thinking skills to make sure the patient has a positive patient experience.
Shift Details: Monday – Friday 7 am until 3:30 pm, No Weekends, No Call, No Holidays, 3- 8 hour shifts This position is located at Saint Luke's North.
The Work:
Direct supervision of exercise and pharmacologic stress testing for both inpatients and outpatients in the nuclear cardiology laboratory.
This involves advanced history and physical assessment skills, advanced ECG and arrhythmia interpretation and recognition.
Will also directly handle radioactive materials.
Job Requirements
Applicable Experience:
2 yearsRegistered Nurse - VariousAssociate Degree - NursingJob Details
Part TimeDay (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 Registered Nurse will supervise exercise and pharmacologic stress testing for adult and geriatric patients in the nuclear cardiology laboratory. This includes advanced ECG and arrhythmia interpretation and handling radioactive materials.
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