Registered Nurse Key-Whitman Eye Grapevine

Key-Whitman Eye Center•Grapevine, TX

5d•Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse provides perioperative and postoperative nursing care to adult patients at Key Whitman Lonestar ASC in Grapevine, Texas. The role includes assessing and monitoring patients, supporting patient safety, managing pain, coordinating care, educating patients and families, and documenting care in accordance with applicable standards, policies, and procedures. The nurse communicates patient status during transfers, reports abnormal laboratory or test results to physicians, and helps ensure required preoperative documentation and checks are complete before patients enter the surgical suite. The nurse is expected to treat patients and families with kindness, respect, and dignity; respond therapeutically to anxiety or inappropriate behavior; and recognize and respond promptly to physical or cardiopulmonary changes and emergencies. The position also requires maintaining effective working relationships with coworkers, physicians, management, and peers, following medication-safety practices, and complying with regulatory, ASA, and nursing requirements. This is a full-time position. The role is based at 2201 Westgate Plaza, Grapevine, Texas.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
Maintain current state Registered Nurse licensure.
Current BLS certification for Health Care Providers and maintain certification.
Current ACLS certification, or obtain it within 90 days of employment and maintain certification thereafter.
Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
Ability to identify problems and recommend solutions.
Ability to develop and maintain department quality assurance.
Ability to apply and modify professional nursing principles to provide ongoing patient care.
Knowledge of organizational policies, regulations, and procedures for administering patient care.
Ability to troubleshoot a variety of medical equipment and instruments used in patient care.
Ability to react calmly and effectively in busy or emergent situations.
Ability to interpret, adapt, and apply guidelines and procedures.
Ability to communicate effectively in English in person, by telephone, and in writing.
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with physicians, management, and peers.
Demonstrated knowledge of anesthetic drugs, their actions, and side effects.
Demonstrated understanding of the necessity of chemical and biological monitoring.
Ability to meet the listed physical demands, including frequent lifting and carrying items up to 50 pounds unassisted, assisting patients, performing injections, and frequent bending, reaching, repetitive hand movements, standing, walking, squatting, and sitting.
Ability to work with exposure to communicable diseases and/or bodily fluids.

Responsibilities

Explain care to patients and provide verbal reassurance consistently.
Provide specific postoperative care to adult patients and demonstrate knowledge of perioperative factors affecting the immediate postoperative phase.
Take safety measures to prevent patients from harming themselves or others and provide care that optimizes safety and reduces the likelihood of medical errors.
Coordinate and supervise patient care and provide necessary patient and family teaching.
Obtain, document, and assess vital signs according to protocol.
Assess and reassess pain, use appropriate pain-management techniques, and educate patients and families about pain management.
Document patient facts, assessments, and care clearly and concisely within the shift and in accordance with current standards, policies, and procedures.
Communicate patient condition and assessment during transfers to staff involved in the patient’s care.
Notify physicians of abnormal laboratory or test results.
Maintain applicable regulatory agency, ASA, and nursing policies, procedures, and standards; count narcotics at the beginning and end of shifts according to policy.
Ensure the preoperative checklist is complete, including the history and physical, signed informed consent, and test results, before the patient enters the surgical suite.
Establish and maintain effective communication and working relationships with coworkers, physicians, management, and peers.
Respond therapeutically to inappropriate behavior and take and document appropriate action when anxiety or distress is manifested.
Adapt nursing procedures to individual patient treatment needs and identify physical symptoms or changes, taking timely and appropriate action.
Assess cardiopulmonary systems for changes and report or respond appropriately.
Follow the five medication rights and reduce the potential for medication errors.
Protect patient privacy and sensitivities, and address patients’ psychosocial, cultural, ethnic, and religious or spiritual needs.
Respond appropriately to emergencies or physically distressful situations.
Use initiative and maintain a steady level of productivity.
Troubleshoot medical equipment and instruments used to administer patient care.
Demonstrate knowledge of anesthetic drugs, their actions and side effects, and the need for chemical and biological monitoring.