PRN Circulating Nurse (71356)

PRN Circulating Nurse  

Location: The per diem Circulating Nurse may be expected to provide coverage in both our Lancaster and Lebanon outpatient surgery centers.

Responsible for the delivery of safe, effective, and quality patient-family centered care in the OR and other areas of perioperative services for all patient populations. Functions as a first and/or second assistant during the surgical episode, including incision, excision, repair of pathology, and wound closure throughout the perioperative period on procedures for which privileges have been granted.

NOTE: Circ RN to assist with Surg Tech coverage in the OR setting as identified by OR management. Expectation is for the Circ RN to rotate through Surg Tech to ensure continued competency.

Responsibilities:

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

1. Promotes the mission, vision, and values of the organization.

2. Assesses patients at intervals as stated in policies and procedures.

3. Develops an individualized perioperative patient plan of care.

4. Participates in a professional organization

5. Collaborates effectively with other disciplines as appropriate.

6. Maintains competency, regulatory, credentialing, privileging requirements.

7. Participates in quality review and performance improvement projects.

8. Acts as a patient advocate and maintains patient privacy and confidentiality.

9. Other duties as required and assigned.

Circulator RN Responsibilities:

1. Implements the plan of care by:

1. protecting the patient from injury caused by chemical, electrical, laser, mechanical, and thermal sources and extraneous objects.

2. performing accounting procedures to protect the patient from unintended retained surgical items.

3. performing interventions necessary to ensure that the patient’s procedure is performed on the correct site, side, and level.

4. managing the patient’s specimens in the appropriate manner.

5. communicating the patient’s current status to the appropriate parties throughout the continuum of care.

6. administering medications safely and correctly.

7. performing interventions to maintain the patient’s wound and tissue perfusion at or above baseline levels.

8. performing interventions to maintain the status of the patient’s genitourinary, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, endocrine, respiratory, cardiovascular, and neurological systems and fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balances at or above baseline levels.

9. performing interventions to ensure the patient is at or returned to normothermia at the conclusion of the immediate postoperative period.

10. performing interventions to protect the patient from surgical site infection.

11. assessing the knowle