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Wonder what radiology nurse doRating: (votes: 0) they get history, start IV's, educate patient on procedure and possible side effects and determine if/when patient is able to be discharged. They may inject into IV's or administer meds and watch for changes that could indicate patient is in heart failure, having MI, CIA, quit breathing---some do moderate sedation and assist MD (not at same time I hope) Comment:
As stated above they may assist with procedures, there are more studies done under radiology now and obtaining biopsies, helping with para or thora centesis, as well as giving imaging contrast etc. Assessing pts during conscious sedation. This is a relatively new field for nursing.
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Interventional radiology definitely involves nurses. If children are seen in this radiology department, they often get sedated for radiology scans/procedures that adults would do awake so there's a lot of nursing care involved in the prep, procedure and recovery.
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