Registered Nurse - Imaging

## Description Join our Diagnostic Imaging team and make a meaningful impact by providing specialized nursing care that supports exceptional patient outcomes across all ages in a collaborative hospital environment. Play a key role in advanced imaging and minimally invasive procedures while serving as a patient advocate and nurse navigator throughout the continuum of care. **HIGHLIGHTS** - **Community-Centric:** Pairing small town values with industry-leading standards, South Peninsula Hospital values and invests in our staff and deeply cares about our patients. - **Benefits:** South Peninsula Hospital provides a competitive salary and industry-leading benefits, including Health/Dental/Vision Insurance with up to a $2k HRA and generous PTO. Loan forgiveness and tuition reimbursement programs are available. **RESPONSIBILITIES** - Assess patients before imaging and invasive procedures, obtain nursing histories, start IVs, administer medications and contrast, and monitor patient status throughout care. - Provide conscious/procedural sedation, monitor vital signs and cardiac rhythms, recognize changes in patient condition, and implement appropriate nursing interventions. - Assist radiologists during sterile and invasive procedures, ensure accurate documentation, obtain informed consents, and coordinate follow-up care for inpatient and outpatient procedures. - Collaborate with physicians, nursing staff, and other healthcare professionals to ensure safe, high-quality, patient-centered care and continuity of services. - Support departmental quality assurance, maintain equipment and medication oversight, promote radiation safety, and assist with policy development and departmental operations. **KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE** - Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) or Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) required. - Current Alaska Registered Nurse (RN) license with ACLS certification; BLS certification required and maintained annually. - Minimum of two years of recent clinical nursing experience. - Procedural sedation certification preferred or willingness to obtain certification and demonstrate proficiency within six months of hire. - Strong clinical assessment, critical thinking, communication, and interdisciplinary collaboration skills. - Ability to provide compassionate care to patients across the lifespan, from neonates through geriatrics. - Commitment to maintaining continuing education requirements and compliance with hospital policies, patient safety standards, and radiation safety practices. - **Physical Requirements:** Ability to lift up to 50 pounds safely, stand and walk for extended periods, and frequently stoop, bend, and sit as required throughout the workday. **ENVIRONMENT** The South Peninsula Hospital is a combined 22-bed Acute Care Critical Access Hospital and 28-bed Long Term Care facility located at the southern end of the Kenai Peninsula in South-Central Alaska. This position is primarily performed indoors in a fast-paced Diagnostic Imaging department, with work schedules that may vary based on patient and departmental needs. The Imaging Nurse works closely with radiologists, physicians, nurses, patients, and families in a collaborative, patient-focused environment. **This role includes exposure to infectious diseases, radiation-controlled areas, patient-handling activities, slips, falls, and musculoskeletal strain, and requires strict adherence to safety and infection-prevention protocols.**