RN - Surgery Center OR (Full Time), St.Vincent

Highmark Health•Erie, PA

About The Position

The Registered Nurse assesses human responses and plans, implements, and evaluates nursing care for individuals and families. The nurse is responsible for their actions as a licensed nurse and accountable to patients for the quality of care delivered. Surgery Center nursing care is provided primarily in an outpatient surgery center. Saint Vincent Surgery Center has seven operating rooms serving several specialties, as well as a Pain & Laser Clinic providing pain management and enhanced vision care. The pre-op, OR, and PACU teams work collaboratively with other teams to provide patient care. Recent services include same-day hip arthroscopies. The RN contributes to a professional practice setting through leadership, teamwork, delegation, collaboration, patient advocacy, and ongoing professional development. The role includes using the nursing process to develop and deliver individualized care, promoting patient safety and quality, communicating with patients and families, and completing assigned duties within established work shifts. Employees are expected to comply with applicable laws, company policies, ethical and behavioral standards, HIPAA and privacy requirements, and information-security guidelines.

Requirements

Current Pennsylvania RN license or current multistate licensure through the enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC).
CPR certification.
Act 34 Criminal Background Clearance Certificate.
Act 33 Child Abuse Clearance Certificate.
Act 73 FBI Fingerprinting Criminal Background Clearance Certificate.

Nice To Haves

Certification in the area of specialty.

Responsibilities

Provide transformational leadership in a professional practice setting and contribute to the future of healthcare.
Help build the team through role modeling, mentoring, and supporting colleagues.
Assign or delegate tasks according to patient needs and staff skill levels; when acting in a charge role, assign staff duties and lunches.
Consider safety, patient condition, intervention complexity, and outcome predictability when assigning or delegating care.
Provide peers with verbal and written feedback on clinical practice and role performance.
Share knowledge and skills and foster positive attitudes, effective communication, trust, and collaboration.
Support a work culture in which mistakes can be acknowledged and creativity, flexibility, resiliency, and adaptability are encouraged.
Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to evaluate clinical care and health services.
Promote patient-safety initiatives, including National Patient Safety Goals, and participate in department quality initiatives and appropriate use of order sets.
Supervise, delegate, and evaluate assigned LPN practice within scope, as appropriate.
Use the nursing process to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate individualized patient care in accordance with physician direction and nurse and hospital policies, involving patients and families.
Develop culturally and age-appropriate expected outcomes with patients, families, and other healthcare providers.
Analyze the health status of individuals and families and compare findings with norms when possible to determine care needs.
Assess and document reported or recorded changes in patient condition, notify the physician or supervisor, and intervene appropriately.
Accept assignments outside the primary unit and perform duties within individual competency.
Pursue continuing learning and professional development for self and others, including use of research and evidence to maintain clinical and professional skills.
Promote the nursing profession through participation in professional organizations.
Participate in peer review, seek feedback, and identify strengths and areas for professional development.
Meet hospital time and attendance guidelines.
Keep patients at the center of care by evaluating patient and family satisfaction and advocating for patients and customers.
Participate in department patient-satisfaction initiatives and promote compassionate, patient- and family-centered communication.
Assess and attempt to resolve patient and family concerns.
Use effective time-management skills to complete duties within the established work shift.