Registered Nurse - Operating Room
About The Position
Directs and manages care of designated operative patients, performs ongoing patient assessments, creates and maintains a safe environment, and implements and enforces policies and procedures. Handles the instruments, supplies, and equipment needed during surgical procedures. Develops perioperative nursing care plans based on assessment of patients’ physical, psychosocial, cultural, growth, and development needs. The position is onsite at Lehigh Valley Hospital–Muhlenberg in Allentown-area Pennsylvania, works a day shift schedule of 0645–1915, and has an on-call requirement.
Requirements
- Specialized Diploma in Nursing.
- Less than one year of current operating room experience or completion of a perioperative internship program.
- Ability to perform assessments and nursing functions acquired through basic nursing preparation.
- Ability to plan, review, supervise, and inspect the work of others.
- Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
- Minimum ability to circulate surgical procedures.
- American Heart Association Basic Life Support certification.
- Pennsylvania Registered Nurse license.
Nice To Haves
- Ability to scrub surgical procedures.
- CNOR (Certified Nurse Operating Room).
- CCICBPN certification in Pennsylvania.
Responsibilities
- Assist the operating physician with surgical tasks such as homeostasis, suturing, wound exposure, and patient positioning.
- Contribute to patient care before, during, and after surgery using technical and mechanical functions.
- Perform circulating functions, including monitoring, recording, and communicating the patient’s condition and managing overall nursing care throughout the procedure.
- Perform scrub functions, including selecting and handling instruments and supplies used during procedures.
- Collaborate and communicate with physicians and interdisciplinary team members, taking action to proactively resolve patient needs.
- Inspect sterile items for integrity before opening or delivery to the sterile field, and verify the presence and appropriate color change of chemical indicators in all loads.
- Collect and analyze data about the healthcare consumer’s health or situation to determine actual or potential diagnoses, problems, and issues.
- Control the care environment, including temperature, warm blankets, warm irrigation fluids, the sensory environment, and traffic flow, while following safety and sanitation policies.
- Direct and manage the care of designated operative patients, conduct ongoing assessments, maintain a safe environment, and implement and enforce policies and procedures.
- Handle instruments, supplies, and equipment necessary during surgical procedures.
- Develop perioperative nursing care plans based on patient assessment.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Associate degree
