Registered Nurse PreOp II, Part-Time - Fredericksburg Endoscopy Center

SCA Health•Fredericksburg, IA

About The Position

SCA Health is hiring a Registered Nurse (RN) PreOp for Fredericksburg Endoscopy Center. The role provides preoperative and perianesthesia nursing care, promotes SCA Health’s mission, vision, and values, and supports safe, individualized care throughout the patient’s perioperative experience. The nurse assesses patients’ status, interprets information from monitors, develops and implements individualized plans of care, educates patients and their designated support persons, and evaluates progress toward care outcomes. The position involves patient advocacy, safe medication administration, appropriate monitoring, infection prevention, pain and comfort management, communication and handoffs, accurate documentation, and collaboration with the multidisciplinary perioperative team. The nurse also participates in quality improvement, performance appraisal, team meetings, training, and safety huddles; maintains competencies and pursues professional growth; and complies with facility and SCA policies and procedures. The position is part-time. The listed pay range is USD $37.00–$47.00 per hour.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
Current state licensure to practice in good standing.
Complete Basic Life Support (BLS) or Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) within 90 days of employment, or provide documentation of current certification.
Complete Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) within 90 days of employment, or provide documentation of current certification.
When pediatric care is included in the facility’s scope of services, complete Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) within 90 days of employment or provide documentation of current certification.

Nice To Haves

One year of ICU, ED, PACU, and/or medical-surgical nursing experience.
Specialty certification in perioperative or perianesthesia nursing.

Responsibilities

Promote SCA Health’s mission, vision, and values.
Assess patients’ preoperative status, including cardiovascular, respiratory and airway, neurological, hemodynamic, pain and comfort, and mental status needs.
Interpret information accurately from noninvasive and invasive monitors.
Describe commonly encountered disease processes and the physiology associated with anesthesia techniques and surgical or procedural interventions.
Develop and implement an individualized perianesthesia plan of care, including patient protection, communication, safe equipment operation, specimen handling, standard precautions, pain management, medication administration, wound and tissue perfusion care, normothermia, infection prevention, comorbidity management, and prescribed fluid management.
Assess patient or support-person knowledge and provide education about psychosocial, nutritional, medical, pain, and wound management and expected responses to procedures.
Involve patients or designated support persons in decisions about perioperative care and rehabilitation.
Protect patient rights, dignity, privacy, and confidentiality, and provide age-specific, culturally competent, ethical care within legal standards.
Comply with Universal Protocol and facility site-validation and time-out policies.
Evaluate patient progress toward outcomes and transfer care as needed.
Provide accurate, concise, pertinent handoff reports to teammates.
Delegate tasks in accordance with applicable nursing practice requirements, state laws, and job descriptions.
Document each episode of care completely, accurately, and legibly.
Communicate and collaborate effectively with the perioperative team and other stakeholders; serve on a multidisciplinary team in planning patient care.
Participate in quality review and performance improvement projects and the performance appraisal process.
Use problem-solving and conflict-resolution skills to foster effective working relationships.
Maintain required competencies and pursue professional growth.
Comply with SCA and facility policies and procedures when providing care.
Participate in team meetings, trainings, and daily safety huddles.
Demonstrate fiscal responsibility and perform other duties as assigned.