Operating Room

Industry: Healthcare-Health services

Duties:     

The Registered Nurse (RN) is a professional caregiver who assumes responsibility and accountability for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care of patients. The staff RN utilizes the nursing process by use of technology, therapeutic intervention, evidence-based practice, and coordination of care with other health team members.

Scope Job Essentials Assess:

• Performs appropriate assessment of physical, social, and psychological status (including cognitive, communicative, and developmental skills as appropriate).

• Seeks and evaluates information acquired from other members of interdisciplinary team: patient, family, physician, non-nursing disciplines, support staff, others. Plan:

• Uses assessment information and critical thinking skills to collaboratively develop individualized plan of care.

• Actively seeks patient, family, team, and physician involvement to develop plan of care including needed education.

• Collaboratively plans and prepares patients for further support needs once the current episode of care outcomes are met (i.e., teaching, referrals, and follow-up). Implement:

• Directs the interdisciplinary care team via delegation, coordination, and collaboration as appropriate.

• Provides or delegates care consistent with plan of care, guidelines of care and professional licensure provisions.

• Demonstrates the ability to set priorities and to coordinate and organize patient care delivery through effectively managing time, supplies, and resources. Evaluate:

• Evaluates patient response to interventions through review of achievement of goals, clinical outcomes, patient, and family satisfaction.

• Revises plan of care as indicated and reassesses changes as appropriate. Professionalism:

• Promotes nursing profession and participate in development of others.

• Integrates legal and ethical standards into practice complies with regulatory standards, practices within scope of licensure, provides accurate & timely documentation, and understands legal implications of care delivery.

Minimum Qualifications

• Current RN License in state of practice.

• Basic Life Support Certification (BLS) for healthcare providers.

• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.

• Basic computer skills.

• Unit specific certification as required (i.e., ACLS, PALS, etc.). Physical Requirements Carrying, Hearing/Listening, Lifting, Manual Dexterity, Pushing/Pulling, Seeing, Speaking, Standing, Walking.

Preferred Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in nursing (BSN) from an accredited institution.

Certifications & Licenses:    

• ACLS

• BLS

• PALS - AHA

• RN License

Duration: 3 Months