Job Benefits

• Tax-Free income
• Married-Status or Single Status contract
• Fully Furnished Accommodations provided
• Medical coverage
• Annual Air Transportation
• More than 7 calendar weeks of vacation

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Nursing (online degrees/diplomas are not accepted) , and  
• Current Nursing (RN) license in North America, Western Europe, or Australia/New Zealand, and
• Specialty qualification related to area of expertise required. Evidence must be provided, and
• Minimum of four years of current experience as a RN, including at least one year of current leadership experience in the specialty area, working in a mid- to large-size acute-care hospital setting in North America, Western Europe, or Australia/New Zealand.

Department Information

The Nursing Section of the Radiology Department provides nursing care to patients in the Radiology Department at our client hospital.

Procedures/Services/Functions:

CT/MRI

• Patient assessment and chart review.
• Initiation of intravenous access.
• Manual and power injection of contrast.
• Contrast reaction management.
• Care of intravenous, CVC’s, Hickman and Port a caths, peri and post administration of contrast.
• Monitoring of sedated inpatients with pulse oximetry.
• Assist and transfer of GA patients to Recovery Room, in Radiology.
• Emergency response for entire Radiology Department.
• Assist the Radiologist with CT guided FNA’s and Biopsies.
• Ordering pharmacy and nursing supplies.

Recovery Room

• Patient assessment pre, peri and post GA. also recovering of patient post GA.
• Monitoring of Renal Captopril Study patients.
• Initiation of intravenous access.
• Patient assessment and monitoring from all other sections.

Nuclear Medicine, General X-ray

• Emergency response

Angiography

• Patient monitoring pre, peri and post angiography procedure and conscious sedation.
• Scrub and circulating role during interventional angiography procedures.
• EKG monitoring and interpretation.
• 24 hrs follow-up on In-patients that have had an Angiography Invasive Procedure.

Ultrasound

• Patient assessment pre, peri and post US guided invasive procedures
• 24 hrs follow-up on In-patients that have had an Ultrasound Guided Invasive Procedure

Positron Emission Tomography (PET)

• Patient assessment and chart review
• Assessment and/or insertion of intravenous access
• Blood glucose monitoring and administration of insulin per protocol.
• Assist technologist in administration of radioactive isotopes and positioning of patients.
• Monitor patients for that have had medications for conscious sedation.

Fluoroscopy

• Insertion of Foley catheter for VCUG’s.
• Assessment and/or insertion of intravenous access for IVP’s.

Hours of Operation

• Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• Normal working hours are 0700 to 1800 Saturday to Tuesday and 0700 – 1700 on Wednesday.
• Occasional over time for CT/MRI on Thursdays from 0800-1400.
• On Call 1800 to 0700 Saturday to Tuesday and from 1700 Wednesday to 0700 Saturday (for Angiography Nurses only).

TYPE OF PATIENTS

• Outpatients
• Inpatients
• Adult
• Pediatric
• Emergency and ICU patients