Registered Nurse - Surgery Center (Lewisburg) - Days (full-time)

WellSpan Health•Lewisburg, PA

13d•Onsite

About The Position

This is a full-time (80 hours biweekly) Registered Nurse position primarily in an OR role, requiring previous OR experience. The role utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate comprehensive patient care. Responsibilities include direct patient care, patient/family teaching, symptom management, counseling, and providing support to patients and their families. Specific skills may vary based on the assigned unit, with unit-based skill lists outlining expectations beyond general RN requirements. Current BLS certification is required for all nursing practice areas, and additional certifications like ACLS, PALS, or NRP may be required depending on the unit. The position emphasizes a commitment to patient safety, maintaining established policies and procedures, professional growth, outstanding customer service, teamwork, fiscal responsibility, and efficient data management.

Requirements

Previous OR experience is required.
Diploma Program Required or Associates Degree Required
1 year Nursing experience. Required
Licensed Registered Nurse Upon Hire Required or Registered Nurse Multi State License Upon Hire Required
Basic Life Support Upon Hire Required
Thinks critically, utilizes sound judgment and promptly reports potential patient safety risks to provider and/or manager.
Demonstrates good organizational skills in the preparation of daily work schedules and the assignment of duties and responsibilities.
Ability to effectively work with and through physicians, subordinates, customers, and other personnel in a cooperative, collaborative manner in order to improve patient care outcomes.
Ability to efficiently and effectively manage multiple tasks.
Ability to work in a fast paced, patient care environment.
Demonstrates ability to promote quality improvement through development and maintenance of standards.
Ability to maintain professional conduct in all work-related and/or emergent situations.

Nice To Haves

Bachelors Degree Nursing (BSN) Preferred
Advanced Cardiac Life Support Upon Hire Preferred

Responsibilities

Provides general nursing care and personal care assistance to patients.
Writes initial nursing histories, assesses patients' conditions and develops individual care plans for patients.
Carries out physician orders such as administering prescribed medications or treatments, preparing an operating room, order lab tests, x-rays, etc.
Cleans and prepares rooms between procedures and after terminal cleaning.
Monitors and restocks supplies.
Assists provider during examinations, non-operative and operative procedures.
Maintains aseptic techniques; actively monitors situations which could lead to breaches in aseptic technique.
Assists in patient care related activities such as changes dressings, cleans wounds, monitors vital signs, starting IV solutions and inserting tubes.
Provides health care instruction/education to patient and family members.
Performs a variety of nursing administrative duties.
Prepares and maintains records of patient charges.
Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span of the assigned patient population.
Assesses and interprets patient age specific data and provides appropriate, age specific treatment.
Provides direct patient care to assigned patient age group(s).
Demonstrates a commitment to patient, visitor and staff by complying with all applicable safety regulations, learning the impact of medical errors and methodology that will lead to reduction of errors, reporting actual and potential errors, as well as hazardous conditions, identifying opportunities to standardize processes and "error proof" systems that will lead to increased safety, and participating in safety education programs and root cause analyses as required.
Maintains established policies and procedures, objectives, quality assessment, safety, environmental and infection control standards.
Maintains professional growth and development through seminars, workshops, and professional affiliations to keep abreast of latest trends in field of expertise.
Provides outstanding service to all customers; fosters teamwork; and practices fiscal responsibility through improvement and innovation.
Ensures an adequate stock of supplies and proper functioning of equipment.
Enters and/or retrieves data from established computer files using knowledge of various computer software applications.