key: cord-1027505-7core0y3
authors: Kutsenko, Oleksandra
title: Guest Editorial: Radiology Nurses Can Raise the Impact on Promoting IR
date: 2020-04-02
journal: J Radiol Nurs
DOI: 10.1016/j.jradnu.2020.03.003
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doc_id: 1027505
cord_uid: 7core0y3

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The second critical focus is to expand the net of healthcare professionals who understand the clinical scenarios and has a good report with patients and other clinicians. This is where radiology nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants can play an incredibly important role. In the current patient-centered value-based healthcare system, radiology nurses are at the forefront of patient care and interdepartmental communication. They can pre-screen the patients at the emergency rooms and initiate IR consults, maintain long-term comprehensive wound care for patients with chronic limb ischemia, or participate in interdisciplinary tumor boards and provide patient stewardship during oncologic treatments. The unique position of nurses is that they do not merely address the patient's symptoms, but also build an ongoing relationship promoting patients' trust and confidence. After all, we understand that, when offered new procedures and new technologies, patients tend to trust and more accurately follow the advice of those who understand their family conditions, culture, and beliefs. The social dimension is as essential as the scientific expertise. In this work against sickness, we begin not with genetic or cellular interactions, but with human ones. 3 Finally, during the critical times of COVID-19 pandemic when every healthcare resource is at the dearth 4 , it is more than ever vital to provide the most efficient patient triage, perform the least invasive procedures with consequent faster discharge, and efficiently engage all members of the team to provide care for the sick. Current healthcare catastrophe makes a powerful moral argument to promote the culture of minimally invasive comprehensive clinical care of IR.

It is also important for all healthcare team members to understand that our role in medicine is much larger than solely maintain patients' survival. With an increasing stress of high disease toll, social interactions with patients and colleagues will determine long-term outcomes for all of us.

Staying assertive and kind, finding the best treatment solutions, and valuing opinions of each other will go a long way. Every one of us has an ability to meaningfully contribute to the evolution of medicine and the wellbeing of our community. So, choose your niche in supporting IR-look for the right patients, talk to your colleagues, be on social media, write manuscripts, tell the stories of how IR changes lives.

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