Job Summary and Qualifications
The IRU RN assists radiology Registered Nurses/physicians by performing various patient care activities and related non-professional services necessary to meet personal and comfort needs and carry out the medical and nursing plan of care for all IRU/radiology patients.
What you will do in this role:
- Assess the patient’s physical, nutritional, psychosocial, emotional, cultural, spiritual, educational and rehabilitative needs and problems.
- Assist in interventional cases including administering sedation analgesia.
- Assist in implementing the medical and nursing plan of care by:
- Taking vital signs accurately and documenting appropriately.
- Providing comfort and hygiene measures in a timely manner.
- Providing nutritional requirements in a timely manner and accurately recording intake and output.
- Keeping the patient’s immediate environment clean and safe.
- Communicates any patient’s report of pain
- Keeping the staff RN or patient physician informed of patients condition, response to care, and any concerns voiced.
- Meeting all physical needs of patients in a timely manner.
- Meets the rehabilitative needs of patients:
- Assists in moving in and out of bed
- Assists in positioning and repositioning while in bed to prevent skin injuries
- Adheres to principles of safe body mechanics.
- Start I.V.’s
- Pain Assessment
- Maintain Daily QC on equipment
- Complete daily temperature logs etc.
- Maintain complete and accurate patient records
- Create patient charts
- Schedule various procedures
- Ordering of supplies
- Stocking of supplies
- Educational records reveal attendance at all required educational programs/in-services.
What qualifications you will need:
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
- PALS Pediatric Adv Life Supt must be obtained within 60 months of employment start date
- Registered Nurse Diploma
- (GN) Graduate Nurse, or (RN) Registered Nurse
- Basic Cardiac Life Support, or CPR for Healthcare Providers must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
Rapides Regional Medical Center is a 350+ bed hospital and ER in Alexandria, Louisiana. We offer services ranging from Cancer Care to Wound Care. Our medical staff includes doctors in more than 30 medical specialties. At Rapides Regional we believe that well-defined values are the key to nurturing staff and patient satisfaction. By joining our team you contribute to the positive culture of the hospital. This culture impacts the well-being of patients and their families. It also impacts your colleagues, and your own personal job satisfaction. Learn what our commitment to patient satisfaction, service excellence and professional expertise can do for your career.
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated 3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
"Bricks and mortar do not make a hospital. People do."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder
If this opportunity is your next step in your career path, we encourage you to apply for our RN IRU Pre and Post Care PRN opening. We review all applications. Qualified candidates will be contacted by a member of our team.We are interviewing apply today!
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.


