Nurse Endoscopy

As an Endoscopy Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery throughout their endoscopy journey.

Every day, you will leverage your specialized expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care in the endoscopy suite and related areas, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures unique to endoscopy, and meticulously implementing patient care plans for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, including gastroenterologists, anesthesiologists, and technicians, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes and safety.

To be successful in this role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, particularly in recognizing and managing sedation and procedural complications, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others through often anxiety-provoking procedures. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement in this specialized field.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Pre-Procedural Care: Provides comprehensive, safe, and effective, evidence-based nursing care, including thorough patient education on preparation, procedure, and post-procedure expectations. Assesses patient's medical history, allergies, medications, and ensures appropriate consent is obtained.
• Post-Procedural Care: Provides diligent post-anesthesia and post-procedure monitoring, ensuring patient safety and comfort. Educates patients and families on discharge instructions, potential complications, and when to seek medical attention.
• Patient Advocacy: Serves as an advocate for patients' needs by demonstrating holistic care practices, particularly for anxious or vulnerable patients undergoing endoscopic procedures.
• Clinical Acuity & Adaptation: Demonstrates the ability to recognize and adapt to changes in patients condition (i.e. Lab, vitals, signs and test values) in a timely and clinically appropriate manner, especially concerning sedation levels, pain, and potential procedural complications.

Required

• Associate Of Nursing ADN and Knowledge of infusion therapy, critical care (surgical) background, pediatric experience helpful., upon hire 
• Registered Nurse: AZ, upon hire and
• Basic Life Support - American Heart Association required
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support-  American Heart Association required

Preferred

• One (1) year experience in an ambulatory treatment unit, PACU phase I, and/orcritical care unit. and
• Previous experience with Chemotherapy/Biotherapy administration. and
• Previous training and experience with PICC insertions

Located in the Phoenix, Ariz., suburb of Gilbert, the Mercy Gilbert Medical Center, is a 198-bed, not-for profit hospital with more than 1,300 team members and almost 900 doctors on staff representing all major specialties. In 2014, Phoenix Children’s Hospital launched a 22-bed pediatric unit inside the hospital. Mercy Gilbert opened in 2006 and has been a vital part of the growing community. Today it is the fifth largest employer in Gilbert. During the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016, Mercy Gilbert provided more than $24 million in community benefit. As a result of Dignity Health’s mission to deliver health care and partner with the community, more than 42,000 people in the East Valley were reached through community health services. For more information visit: https://www.dignityhealth.org/arizona/locations/mercygilbert.