Registered Nurse - Mount Sinai Brooklyn - Operating Room - Full-time - Evenings
About The Position
The Registered Nurse provides safe, competent, quality care to a designated group of operating room patients. The role is responsible for care activities and patient goals through assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, and evaluation of responses to care, as well as health teaching and discharge planning. As a member of a designated care team, the nurse collaborates with, coordinates, and guides team members in planning patient care. The nurse circulates and scrubs in the Operating Room for orthopedic, neurological, gynecological, general surgery, and laparoscopic procedures; documents care; assists physicians and surgeons; and participates in quality improvement. The position also includes holding room desk responsibilities.
Requirements
- Current New York State RN license.
- Minimum 2–3 years of recent experience as a Scrub Nurse in the Operating Room.
- BLS and ACLS certifications from the American Heart Association are required.
- Documented previous experience or educational preparation to support credentials.
- Relevant clinical competence in the area of nursing practice.
- Ability to work well in a stressful and pressured environment.
- Special skills or experience may be required in specialized areas.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor of Science degree preferred.
- CNOR certification preferred.
Responsibilities
- Provide safe, competent, quality professional nursing care based on nursing theory and research to a designated group of patients.
- Assess, diagnose, plan, and intervene in actual or potential health problems, and evaluate patients’ responses to care.
- Provide health teaching and discharge planning.
- Circulate and scrub in the Operating Room for orthopedic, neurological, gynecological, general surgery, and laparoscopic procedures.
- Provide professional nursing care to Operating Room patients, including documentation, and assist physicians and surgeons.
- Assist in the quality improvement process.
- Use the nursing process in all aspects of care delivery.
- Intervene in cardiac arrest and provide pain management and management of diseases and surgical procedures.
- Collaborate with, coordinate, and guide care team members in planning patient care activities.
- Perform holding room desk responsibilities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
