Travel Nurse (RN) - Interventional Radiology

Nurses Only (w/ compact license) - must complete a one-time 6-hour suicide prevention training during onboarding according to the WA state regulations.

References: At least one reference must be from the same unit/specialty as the job you're applying to.

Required Skills/Experience:
Procedure-room nurses need ventilator and pressor management skills.
Recovery nurses need to be able to perform conscious sedation.

Required Credentials:
Travelers with license hits involving diverting medications or endangerment are not accepted; such hits will result in immediate contract cancellation.

Unit Details:
A hybrid OR room is used.
Common diagnoses and patient types include vascular, neuro, electrophysiology, cardiology, interventional radiology, and cath lab cases.
Cath lab cases include diagnostic and interventional procedures, rotablator, and shockwave; diagnostic right-heart procedures support structural programs at other facilities. Impella is planned for next year.
IR cases include ports, G-tubes, drains, nephrostomies, biliary drains, embolizations, coiling, dialysis lines, and other lines; embolizations and coiling are less frequent.
EP cases include ablations, device implantation, and temporary pacemakers; anesthesia is present for every EP case.
Average daily volume is 17 Cath Lab cases and 22-23 cases including all other areas and procedures.
Recovery nurses recover patients in the post-procedure area.
Bone marrow aspirations, bronchoscopies, and cardioversions are performed in the recovery room.
Travelers assist with EP cases only if their skills are validated by the manager.
Uses GE MACLab, Siemens X-ray, and PACS.
Cardiologist coverage is in-house 7-7 Monday-Friday and on call when not in house.

Shift & Scheduling:
Variable day schedule.
Pre-procedure and recovery shifts are 4 ten-hour shifts, noon to 10:30 or 2pm-12:30am.
Procedural nurses work 3 12-hour shifts, 7-7, with an option for 4 ten-hour shifts, 9-7:30.
Pre-procedure and recovery shifts include daytime call only every 5th weekend.
On-call is one night a week.
Weekend call is every 3rd or 4th weekend.
Everyone takes about 1 holiday a year, rotated in with permanent staff.
Call response time is 30 minutes for procedure nurses and techs and 45 minutes for recovery nurses.
Nurses have buddy call for the first 3-4 weeks.

Floating Requirements:
Procedure nurses circulate and monitor patients and may float to CT, Ultrasound, or MRI for procedures and sedations in other radiological areas.
Nurses have floated to other areas on a voluntary basis only.

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