Job Description​

The Opportunity:

Saint Luke’s East Hospital, located in Lee's Summit, Missouri. This location is seeking nurses with experience with higher acuity patients (Intensive Care, ED, procedural areas) to join our Interventional Radiology team. You will have the opportunity to learn and grow in your career, experiencing new procedures and clinical research. This IR – Special Procedures nurse position is a vital team member in providing care and sedation for organ biopsies, acute pulmonary and arterial thrombectomies, embolectomies, drain placements, port and dialysis catheter placements as well as other procedures. You will be supported by leading technology while working in an innovative environment. Join us in our vision of being, “The Best Place to Get Care. The Best Place to Give Care.”

Shift Details:

8 or 9 hour shifts, Weekend and after hour shifts are call only. Call Rotation: Approximately One day a week and every fourth weekend.

The Work:

• Utilizes the nursing process
• Delegates tasks appropriately
• Demonstrates increasing discriminatory judgement in interpreting data and prioritizes appropriately
• Initiates actions to improve nursing practice patient care and unit processes
• Serves as a day to day resource to colleagues at unit and departmental levels
• Provides positive formal or informal leadership within unit and hospital
• Works well with multidisciplinary teams consisting of Interventional Radiologists, Anesthesiology, Specialty Service providers, and nursing peers.

We are seeking patient centered, motivated nurses who are committed to providing exceptional care. To be successful, you will need to keep the patient experience at the forefront, possess strong multi-tasking and troubleshooting skills, and have the ability to provide proactive care in collaborative team environment. The ideal candidate will be compassionate, empathetic, and great at making connections with patients short term. We are seeking nurses who are ready to learn; this team is supportive and ready to teach.

Why Saint Luke’s?

• Our leadership supports nurse engagement and allows their voices to be heard.
• We value our nurses’ knowledge, experience, and expertise to improve patient outcomes and quality care.
• The opportunity to make an impact on their unit, hospital, health system, and the healthcare industry.
• Strong nurse shared governance and we encourage all of our RNs to participate
• Various CEU, Continuing Education, Leadership and other career training available
• Career Advancement Program dedicated to RNs.
• Saint Luke’s offers competitive salaries and benefits packages to all of their employees, click here to find out more.

Job Requirements

Applicable Experience:

Basic Life Support - American Heart Association or Red Cross, Registered Nurse - Various

Associate Degree

Job Details

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The best place to get care. The best place to give care. Saint Luke’s 12,000 employees strive toward that vision every day. Our employees are proud to work for the only faith-based, nonprofit, locally owned health system in Kansas City. Joining Saint Luke’s means joining a team of exceptional professionals who strive for excellence in patient care. Do the best work of your career within a highly diverse and inclusive workspace where all voices matter.

Join the Kansas City region's premiere provider of health services. Equal Opportunity Employer.