Radiology Nurse - Per Diem Day

Radiology Nurse

Location: White Plains, New York

Work Shift: Day

Work Days: MON-FRI, VARIED HOURS

Pay Rate/Range: $58.4096 - $75.8096

Job Summary The Radiology Nurse provides specialized nursing care to patients undergoing diagnostic and interventional radiology procedures, ensuring patient safety, comfort, and adherence to clinical protocols before, during, and after treatment. Collaborates with radiologists, technologists, and interdisciplinary healthcare teams to assess patient needs, administer medications, monitor responses, and deliver high-quality patient-centered care in a fast-paced hospital environment.

Essential Functions

• Understands and adheres to the WPH Performance Standards, Policies and Behaviors.
• Provides respectful care for all patients that allows for and promotes mutual respect, shared decision making and informed consent all the time while respecting a patient's autonomy and dignity regardless of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender identity, religion, language, or any other protected group status.
• Utilizes the nursing process to meet the age specific needs of the patient in all aspects of care: biophysical, psychosocial, education, safety/ environment, and discharge planning
• Utilizes appropriate steps in the decision-making process to include recognition and priority setting related to patient care and unit-based issues. Addresses issues with appropriate actions
• Administers blood and blood products according to policy
• Collaborates and communicates with the interdisciplinary health care team
• Integrates patient rights and nursing ethics into work practice
• Adheres to infection control standards to reduce the risk of nosocomial infections to patient and staff.
• Adheres to the tenets of the Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals
• Delegates activities to ancillary staff as it relates to the State Nurse Practice Act
• Adheres to the ANA Code of Nursing Ethics & Scope and Standards of Nursing Practice
• Supports, promotes, and practices within the WPH Professional Nursing Practice Model
• Sustains and advances the Magnet model
• Participates in the Performance Improvement initiatives
• Completes competency requirements
• Attends mandatory in-services
• Attends staff meetings as required/requested
• Utilizes cost containment practices
• Assumes Charge Nurse responsibility
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Qualifications

• BSN Required or
• MSN
• Previous experience in patient care preferred
• Previous customer service experience preferred
• One year of acute care nursing experience preferred for areas other than medical surgical or step-down
• Knowledge of current nursing, medical and health trends and practices in rendering of patient care (Medium proficiency)
• Registered Nurse New York - New York State Board of Nursing Upon Hire Required
• ACLS Advanced Cardiac Life Support - American Heart Association For Experienced Nurses within 180 Days Required
• ACLS Advanced Cardiac Life Support - American Heart Association Inexperienced Nurses within 1 Year Required
• BLS Basic Life Support - American Heart Association Upon Hire Required

White Plains Hospital Medical Center is an equal employment opportunity employer. White Plains Hospital Medical Center will recruit, hire, train, transfer, promote, layoff and discharge associates in all job classifications without regard to their race, color, religion, creed, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, age, gender, actual or presumed disability, history of disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, pregnancy, military status, marital status, or partnership status, or any other characteristic protected by law.