RN CVOR

Operating Room 
Full Time 
Day Shift 
0600-1430

Sign-On Bonus: $20,000.00 

Consistently named best hospital, Lexington Medical Center dedicates itself to providing quality health services that meet the needs of its communities. Ranked #1 in the Columbia metro area by U.S. News & World Report, Lexington Medical Center is the only hospital named one of the Best Places to Work in South Carolina and the first hospital in the state to achieve Magnet with Distinction status for excellence in nursing care.

The 607-bed teaching hospital anchors a health care network that includes six community medical centers and employs more than 8,700 health care professionals. The network includes a cardiovascular program recognized by the American College of Cardiology as South Carolina’s first HeartCARE CenterTM and an accredited Cancer Center of Excellence affiliated with MUSC Hollings Cancer Center for research and education. The network also features an occupational health center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, an Alzheimer’s care center and nearly 80 physician practices.  Its postgraduate medical education programs include family medicine and transitional year residencies. 

Job Summary

The cardiovascular operating room nurse (CVOR RN) coordinates and performs all aspects of patient care during cardiovascular, cardiothoracic, or vascular surgical procedures and other areas of the OR as needed to include pre-op preparation and patient transport. The CVOR RN works to ensure the operating room environment is safe and consults with health care team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care. The CVOR RN may function as a scrub nurse or as a circulating nurse.

Utilizes the nursing process to promote and restore patient’s health status; collaborates with physicians and multidisciplinary team members; provides physical and psychological support to patients, family members and significant others; and supervises assigned team members. Uses a systematic critical-thinking approach to guide data gathering, assessment, nursing judgement, intervention and evaluation of human responses to actual and potential health problems through activities such as health teaching and the provision of care, supportive and restorative care and/or support of a peaceful death. All responsibilities are carried out in accordance with the mission, vision, strategic imperatives and standards of Lexington Medical Center, American Nurses Association Standards and in accordance with the provisions/statues set forth by the South Carolina Nurse Practice Act. 

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Education: ADN, Diploma or Bachelors of Science in Nursing
*New graduate RN’s who acquire their generic RN education through an on-line program will not meet LMC minimum qualifications
Minimum Years of Experience: None
Substitutable Education & Experience (Optional): None
Required Certifications/Licensure: Current RN license to practice in the State of South Carolina;
**Refer to Mandatory Certification Requirements P&P for required education/certification for various nursing specialties.
Required Training: A nurse with no prior CVOR experience must demonstrate competency and be capable of taking call independently as a CVOR staff nurse in this specialty within six months.

Essential Functions

PATIENT CARE AND SUPPORT
a. Establishes positive rapport with patient and family.
b. Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.
c. Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals; provides education to patient, and family in a manner they can understand their condition, medications, and self-care skills, etc. and provides them ample opportunity to ask questions.
d. Serves as patient/family advocate.
e. Maintains continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.
f. Uses a systematic critical-thinking approach to guide data gathering, assessment, nursing judgement, intervention and evaluation of human responses to actual and potential health problems.
g. Identifies, synthesizes and interprets sources of data using reasonable clinical judgement to respond to dynamic situations in a timely and effective manner.
h. Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential. 
i. Uses ethical decision making processes and advocates for acceptable patient outcomes.                                                 
CLINICAL WORK QUALITY    
a. Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necess