Description

American Traveler is hiring a travel RN for an Interventional Radiology position at an acute care hospital in Decatur, IL, requiring an active IL RN license and at least 1 year of IR experience.

Details

• Works in the Interventional Radiology unit of a 372-bed acute care hospital
• Day shift schedule, 4x10-hour shifts (6:30–17:00)
• Works every third weekend
• On-call required: 1 night per week primary, 1 night per week secondary
• Floating within the hospital or to a nearby affiliate hospital is required
• 1:1 patient ratio
• Procedures include GI, genitourinary, pulmonary, neurological, and vascular interventional studies and interventions such as TIPS, embolization, angioplasty, stent placement, PICC placement, nephrostomy, thoracentesis, lung biopsy, vertebroplasty, and more
• Scrub procedures are performed across multiple procedure categories
• Medications administered include antihypertensives, emergency medications, procedural sedation agents, reversal agents, and thrombolytics
• IV therapy including blood product administration, PICC line care, implanted port care, and IV infusion pump management
• Charting via Cerner (experience required)
• Solid-color scrubs required
• Level II Trauma Center

Requirements

• Active IL RN license in hand at time of consideration
• Active BLS and ACLS certifications required (AHA or Red Cross accepted; RQI cards not accepted)
• Minimum 1 year of Interventional Radiology RN experience required
• Previous charge experience required
• Cerner EMR experience required
• Level II Trauma experience preferred
• SSN and DOB required for consideration

Additional Information

• Responsibilities include pre/post procedure care, monitoring procedural sedation, sheath removal and monitoring, dysrhythmia interpretation and management, vascular closure system use (Perclose, StarClose), end-tidal CO2 monitoring, and infection prevention/PPE
• Must work 2 out of 3 major holidays
• RTO of up to 5 days (non-holiday) may be accommodated; requests exceeding 5 days require facility approval
• Any former permanent or PRN employee of the Memorial Hospital System must have been away for at least 12 months before applying as a traveler
• Travel pairs are not accepted
• Local candidates are welcome to apply with no radius restriction
• First-time travelers are welcome to apply
• RTO and scheduling requests should be submitted at the time of application
• Parking is available at no cost with a permit obtained during orientation
• Online modules must be completed prior to the start of the assignment; the first day is a virtual at-home day