Registered Nurse - Float

Description:

*Must have at least 2 years of ER/ICU experience

* The Registered Nurse is responsible for assessing, evaluating, and assisting patients while planning, implementing, and evaluating their status while in the care of their department.

Major responsibilities include preparing patients for procedures, administering conscious sedation, assisting the team during procedures, and providing care for patients in recovery.

Candidates must demonstrate proficiency in critical care nursing, telemetry, and conscious sedation.

The nurse is expected to deliver compassionate care while coordinating and assisting in the execution of radiology procedures.

Schedule: 30-40 hours per week.

Monday - Saturday (8-12 hour shifts) This is a full-time float position that requires flexibility to work at any of our DRI locations based on staffing and business needs.

You must be willing and able to adjust your work location, schedule, and hours as needed to support operational needs.

Flexibility to work varying shifts and at different locations is required.

Locations: Alamance: 4030 Oaks Professional Parkway Suite 101 Burlington, NC 27215 Lake Brandt: 6199 Lake Brandt Rd Greensboro, NC 27455 315 W Wendover Ave Greensboro, NC 27408 Duties and Responsibilities: Facilitate the patient experience by greeting and escorting patients to treatment areas or exits, verifying the patient's identity, explaining procedures, providing pre-and post-procedure instructions, and screening patients before interventional procedures.

Utilize AIDET Principles in all patient and provider encounters.

Coordinate patient treatment plans by providing pre-procedure instructions to patients, investigating contraindications before scheduling procedures, and consulting with radiologists.

May coordinate patient treatment plan by scheduling follow-up imaging, labs, and office visits, creating orders for imaging studies, labs, consultations, and office visits, dispensing prescriptions and instructions for pre-procedure preparation, preparing and mailing pre-procedure forms and appointment details, investigating contraindications before scheduling procedures, communicating imaging, pathology and lab results to patient, communicating with referring providers and consulting with Radiologists.

Identifying unexpected reactions in patients during procedures, administering analgesia, and sedating patients upon instruction Perform computer operations, including beginning and ending exams in EMR, retrieving results, reports, and previous exams, retrieving and documenting labs, IV insertions and removal, scanning and inputting data into the computer, and operating standard office and medical equipment.

Assist other departments as needed.

May participate in IR consults.

Perform environmental and safety procedures by cleaning and sterilizing exam rooms and workstations, maintaining supply levels, ordering supplies, adhering to infection control policies and protocols, following drug protocols for allergic r...