Staff Nurse (Inpatient) - Imaging

Quick Facts

• Role: Staff Nurse (Inpatient) – Imaging

• Focus: Acute inpatient nursing care through the nursing process

Description

Responsible for providing clinically competent, registered professional nursing care for acutely ill patients in an inpatient imaging setting. You will assess, plan, implement, and evaluate nursing interventions, coordinate care delivery, and document outcome-focused plans and patient responses. Collaborate with patients, families, physicians, and ancillary staff while adhering to professional nursing standards and compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Collects and analyzes patient data to identify expected outcomes and develops an individualized plan of care

• Coordinates care delivery and evaluates progress toward outcome attainment

• Directs care and determines appropriate utilization of assistant staff

• Collaborates with patients, families, physicians, and ancillary staff; creates and documents an outcomes-focused care plan

• Participates in shared governance, committee work, and unit projects

• Evaluates and documents patient responses to nursing interventions and individualizes the plan of care accordingly

• Uses best available evidence, including research findings, to guide practice decisions

Requirements

• BSN required

• Current Illinois Registered Professional Nurse license

• AHA Basic Life Support (BLS) certification

• Strong interpersonal skills, analytic abilities, and ability to collaborate

• ADN acceptable only with commitment to obtain BSN within three years of first day in the clinical nurse role

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits supporting physical, emotional, and financial well-being and protection for unexpected life events

• Benefits eligibility depends on employment classification

• Sign-on bonus eligibility rules apply if included in the posting (internal employees/rehire within 1 year not eligible; exception for certain new graduate internal employees seeking first licensed RN role)