Registered Nurse - Operating Room

Description

Operating Room Registered Nurse9 hour shifts / 4 days per week / plus call rotationFull time at 72 hours per pay period
Come join our team! Crossing Rivers Health provides competitive pay along with an excellent benefits package including medical, dental, vision; life insurance, short term disability, paid time off, a retirement plan w/company match, and more!
We are seeking individuals who can make decisions confidently while remaining calm under pressure; you have good communication skills, you are collaborative, detail oriented, patient, and flexible.
Our core values are practiced and exhibited throughout the organization in our actions and in services provided.Joy : Unity : Integrity : Compassion : Excellence

The individual in this position is responsible for the delivery of safe, effective, and quality patient-family centered care in the Operating Room and other areas of perioperative services for all patient populations.

Essential Job Functions:

• Assess patients at intervals as stated in policies and procedures.
• Develop an individualized perioperative patient plan of care.
• Implement the plan of care by:
• protecting the patient from injury caused by extraneous objects and chemical, electrical, laser, mechanical, and thermal sources;
• performing accounting procedures to protect the patient from unintended retained surgical items;
• performing interventions necessary to ensure that the patient's procedure is performed on the correct site, side, and level;
• managing the patient's specimens according to organizational policy and procedures;
• communicating the patient's current status to relevant parties throughout the continuum of care;
• administering medications safely and correctly;
• performing interventions to maintain the patient's wound and tissue perfusion at or above baseline levels;
• 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;
• performing interventions to ensure the patient is at or returned to normothermia at the conclusion of the immediate postoperative period;
• performing interventions to protect the patient from surgical site infection;
• assessing the knowledge level of the patient or designated support person;
• providing education regarding the expected psychosocial response, nutritional management, medication management, pain management, wound management, and expected responses to the operative or invasive procedure;
• involving the patient or designated support person actively in decisions affecting his or her perioperative plan of care and the rehabilitation process;
• protecting the patient's rights, dignity, and privacy;
• providing age-specific, culturally competent, ethical care within legal standards of practice; and
• providing consistent and comparable care regardless of the setting.

Other Job Functions

• Evaluate the patient's progress toward attaining outcomes.
• Transfer care as applicable.
• Assess cultural and age-specific considerations for appropriate care planning. Accurately document all nursing care and related services in the patient health record.
• Delegate tasks according to the state Nurse Practice Act and job descriptions.
• Document nursing care accurately, completely, and legibly.
• Collaborate effectively with other disciplines as applicable.
• Participate in quality review and performance improvement projects.
• Participate in the performance appraisal process.
• Maintain required competencies.
• Maintain current RN licensure as required.
• Maintain compliance with departmental policies, procedures and clinic processes.
• Other job duties and responsibilities as assigned to effectively meet the needs of the patients, the department, and the organization as a whole.

Required Competencies:

• Communication - The ability to get one's ideas across through oral or written means and to understand the ideas of others through effective listening skills.
• Customer Oriented - Ability to take care of the "customers" needs while following Crossing Rivers Health procedures.
• Active Listening - Ability to actively attend to, convey, and understand the comments and questions of others.
• Decision Making - Ability to make critical decisions while following company procedures.
• Friendly - Ability to exhibit a cheerful demeanor toward others.
• Interpersonal - Abili