REGISTERED NURSE – RADIOLOGY (FULL-TIME, DAYS)
- UW Medicine
- Seattle, WA, USA
Job Description
This recruitment offers a $10,000.00 Recruitment Incentive to eligible new employees joining UW Medicine#UWMRecruitmentIncentive
A higher degree of healthcare.
All across UW Medicine, our employees collaborate to perform the highest quality work with integrity and compassion and to create a respectful, welcoming environment where every patient, family, student and colleague is valued and honored.
Join our award-winning team at UW Medical Center - Montlake. Among the top medical centers in the United States as rated by U.S. News & World Report 2019-2020 "America's Best Hospitals", UW Medical Center - Montlake prides itself on compassionate patient care as well as its pioneering medical advances. UW Medical Center - Montlake has again earned U.S. News & World Report’s No. 1 hospital ranking in Washington State and in the Seattle metropolitan area. It is the seventh consecutive year that UW Medical Center - Montlake has achieved both distinctions.
Excellence. Exploration. Education. Become part of our team, and join our mission to make life healthier for everyone in our community.
UW Medical Center - Montlake has an outstanding opportunity for a Registered Nurse to join our Radiology team. Our Radiology/Imaging Services RNs provide radiology care for patients from all areas of UWMC, inpatient and outpatient. RN's who work in our department provide procedural care including IV starts, conscious sedation monitoring and nursing assessment.
For the Radiology Patient Care Coordinator position:
Essential Responsibilities:
• Functioning as liaison between patients, physicians, PCC and other healthcare providers
• Clinical coordination and scheduling of Radiology/Interventional Radiology clinic and procedure patients
TELEPHONE COMMUNICATIONS
Provides care for individual patients over the telephone using the nursing process by:
• Consistently, following policies and procedures for providing telephone medical advice to patient who will or have had a procedure performed by Interventional Radiology
• Consistently, documenting care provided via telephone per UWMC policy
• Is responsible for triage of incoming phone calls from patients experiencing medical problems
CLIENT TEACHING
• Integrates patient and family education into the delivery of care, ensuring educational activities are culturally appropriate and are tailored to the patient’s and family’s ability to comprehend post & pre-procedure instructions
• Utilizes a variety of sources to determine the patient's clinical condition, identifies available resources, and participates in planning to meet patient needs
SCHEDULE
Full-time. Day shift. Three Twelve Hour Shifts available!
REQUIREMENTS
2 years Med/Surg RN or ED experience required. ACLS/BLS required within six months of hire.
LEGAL REQUIREMENTS
Active Registered Nurse license in Washington State.
UW Medicine includes Harborview Medical Center, UW Medical Center - Montlake, UW Medical Center - Northwest, Valley Medical Center, UW Neighborhood Clinics, UW Physicians, UW School of Medicine, and Airlift Northwest.
UW Medicine (Harborview Medical Center and University of Washington Medical Center), Seattle, Washington
Our Mission: To improve the health of the public
At UW Medicine, we work together as a team—with you at its center—to provide the most effective and compassionate care, always. From proactive preventive care to breakthrough discoveries fresh from the lab, UW Medicine is here for you today, and training for your tomorrow.
Working at UW Medicine is not just a job, it’s a calling. Our mission is improving the health of the public, and we do that worldwide, from the neighborhoods of Seattle to the remote areas of Africa.
Our employees provide patient-centered care at our two leading academic medical centers and our many hospital- and community-based clinics. Our researchers are leading scientists whose medical discoveries set the standard of care across the globe. Our faculty teach the next generation of innovative physicians and health-care professionals.
Whether you work at the bedside or at the research bench, in the clinic or in the Emergency Department, you are on the leading edge of health care.
Harborview Medical Center (HMC) is the only level one trauma center and burn center, for both adults and pediatrics, for all of Washington, Alaska, Idaho and Montana. Harborview is well known for innovations and excellence in trauma care and its centers of emphasis: Trauma, Burn, Neurosciences, AIDS/STD, Center for Advanced Reconstruction and Rehabilitation (CARER), and mentally-and medically- vulnerable populations. In addition to the centers of emphasis, HMC serves a mission population for King County. Harborview is the recipient of the prestigious Beacons Award for Critical Care Excellence. Harborview employees are committed to the vital role the institution plays in the immediate community, as well as the entire Northwest region. HMC is owned by King County and managed by the University of Washington (UW) and serves as a training site for UW’s School of Medicine.
University of Washington Medical Center (UWMC) is a world-renowned academic medical center. UW Medicine physicians and other healthcare professionals based at UW Medical Center provide highly specialized services for cardiac care; cancer care and stem cell transplantation; obstetrical care (including a Level IV neonatal intensive care unit); sports, spine and orthopedics care; and solid organ transplantation. UW Medical Center has been ranked consistently among the top 15 hospitals in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.
The hospital was recognized for excellence in nursing care when it became the nation’s first Magnet Hospital in 1994, and it has met the rigorous criteria of the American Nurses Credentialing Center to renew this designation for the sixth consecutive time.
UW Medicine (including HMC and UWMC) is proud to be one of the nation’s premier educational and research institutions. Our people are the most important asset in our pursuit of achieving excellence in education, research, and community service.