Registered Nurse PreOp II, Pool - Texas Health Ft. Worth Midtown

SCA Health•Fort Worth, TX

About The Position

SCA Health is hiring a Registered Nurse (RN) PreOp to provide preoperative and perianesthesia nursing care at Texas Health Ft. Worth Midtown. The RN assesses patients’ preoperative status, develops and implements individualized plans of care, monitors patients, and evaluates progress toward desired outcomes. The role includes protecting patient safety, rights, dignity, and privacy; providing education and pain management; administering medications safely; and coordinating care with patients, support people, and the multidisciplinary perioperative team. The RN also documents care, participates in quality improvement and team activities, maintains competencies, and complies with SCA and facility policies and procedures.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
Current state licensure to practice in good standing.
Successful completion of Basic Life Support (BLS) or Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) within 90 days of employment, or documentation of current certification.
Successful completion of Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) within 90 days of employment, or documentation of current certification.
If pediatric care is included in the facility’s scope of services, successful completion of Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) within 90 days of employment, or 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.
Interpret information from noninvasive and invasive monitors and understand common disease processes and the physiology of anesthesia and surgical or procedural interventions.
Develop and implement individualized perianesthesia plans of care.
Protect patients from injury, infection, and unsafe conditions; operate equipment safely and report or correct unsafe situations.
Communicate patient status throughout the perianesthesia continuum of care and speak up about safety concerns as a patient advocate.
Handle specimens according to facility policies and procedures and adhere to standard precautions, including personal protective equipment use.
Provide acute pain and comfort management as needed.
Administer medications safely using the eight rights of medication administration.
Maintain wound integrity, tissue perfusion, and normothermia, and provide appropriate monitoring and nursing interventions.
Manage comorbid conditions and fluids as prescribed.
Assess patient or support-person knowledge and provide education about expected psychosocial responses, nutrition, medical and pain management, wound care, and expected procedural responses.
Involve patients or designated support people in decisions about perioperative care and rehabilitation.
Provide age-specific, culturally competent, ethical care within legal standards; protect patient rights, dignity, and privacy; and comply with Universal Protocol and facility validation and time-out policies.
Evaluate patient progress toward outcomes, transfer care as needed, and provide accurate, concise, pertinent hand-off reports.
Delegate tasks in accordance with applicable nursing practice acts, regulations, laws, and job descriptions.
Document each episode of care completely, accurately, and legibly.
Communicate and collaborate effectively with the perioperative team and other stakeholders, and participate in multidisciplinary care planning.
Participate in quality review, performance improvement projects, performance appraisal, team meetings, trainings, and daily safety huddles.
Use problem-solving and conflict-resolution skills to foster effective working relationships.
Maintain required competencies and pursue professional growth.
Maintain privacy and confidentiality of individuals and health information, and comply with SCA and facility policies and procedures.
Demonstrate fiscal responsibility and perform other duties as assigned.