The RN Vascular Access Specialist (IV Nurse) has skill in inserting IVs and is able to function autonomously within the Acute inpatient and outpatient care settings to guide the management of vascular access devices in complex patient, optimizing comfort and patient outcome while reducing risk for complications of care. The Vascular Access Specialist demonstrates the ability to communicate with care providers across the care continuum to support patient evaluation, access selection and insertion as approved, early removal and supports continual development of the IV access program.
Associate Degree or 2 years of college coursework
Two years of related experience. Requires working knowledge of specialized practices, equipment, and procedures.
*Georgia Registered Nurse License or Multistate Nursing License
*Healthcare Provider (CPR) or within 90 days
*Meets appropriate RN level requirement according to clinical ladder policy.
*Previous experience in IV therapy (includes starting IVs, assessing and maintaining sites and administering IV meds and infusions)
*BLS must be obtained within 30 days of hire.
Tanner Hospital Carrollton-C0001
4 ten-hour shifts per week, variable days, including weekends and holidays
Tanner Health is a non-profit regional healthcare provider serving west Georgia and east Alabama. Tanner facilities include the 201-bed acute care Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton, the 40-bed acute care Tanner Medical Center/Villa Rica, the 25-bed critical access Higgins General Hospital in Bremen, the 15-bed Tanner Medical Center/East Alabama in Wedowee and the 92-bed behavioral health facility Willowbrooke at Tanner.
Other Tanner services include Tanner Cancer Care, Tanner Heart Care, Tanner Urgent Care, Tanner Women’s Care, Tanner Occupational Health, Tanner Center for Sleep Disorders, Tanner Advanced Wound Center, Tanner Pain Management Center, Tanner Diagnostic Imaging, Tanner Home Health, Tanner Hospice Care and more.
Tanner also operates Tanner Medical Group, one of metro Atlanta’s largest multi-specialty physician groups, consisting of 30 physician practices with specialties in cardiology and interventional cardiology, family medicine, general surgery and breast surgical oncology, infectious diseases, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, plastic and reconstructive surgery, psychiatry, radiation oncology and vascular surgery.
Tanner employs more than 4,500 people and offers a medical staff of more than 300 physicians representing 34 unique medical specialties practicing throughout west Georgia and east Alabama.
