RN - OB-OR

Whitman Hospital and Medical Clinics • Colfax, WA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

This position offers a rewarding career with a competitive salary and outstanding benefits. The role involves direct patient care in the perioperative setting, ensuring patient safety, administering medications, managing specimens, and maintaining patient systems. It also includes communication and coordination with patients, families, and healthcare teams, accurate patient documentation, and adherence to health and safety standards. The position also emphasizes collaboration, quality improvement, and professional growth.

Requirements

• Licensed as an RN in the state of Washington
• Graduate from an accredited school of nursing
• AHA BLS current upon hire and maintained while employed
• AHA ACLS within six months of hire and maintained while employed
• AHA PALS within six months of hire and maintained while employed

Nice To Haves

• One or more years of Operating Room nursing experience
• Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing
• Basic computer skills
• CNOR completion within 2 years of hire

Responsibilities

• Assesses patients’ conditions before surgery, and at intervals as stated in policies and procedures.
• Develops an individualized perioperative patient plan of care.
• Protects the patient from injury caused by extraneous objects and chemical, electrical, laser, mechanical, and thermal sources.
• Performs accounting procedures to protect the patient from unintended retained surgical items.
• Performs interventions necessary to ensure that the patient’s procedure is performed on the correct site, side, and level.
• Manages the patient’s specimens according to organizational policy and procedures.
• Communicates the patients’ current status to relevant parties throughout the continuum of care.
• Administers medications safely and correctly.
• Performs interventions to maintain the patient’s wound and tissue perfusion at or above baseline levels.
• Performs interventions to maintain the status of the patient’s genitourinary, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, endocrine, respiratory, cardiovascular, and neurological systems and fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balances at or above baseline levels.
• Performs interventions to ensure the patient is at or returned to normothermia at the conclusion of the immediate postoperative period.
• Performs interventions to protect the patient from surgical site infection.
• Delegates tasks according to the state Nurse Practice Act and job descriptions.
• Ensures that the Operating Room is prepared with all necessary supplies, implants, instrumentation, and equipment.
• Assesses the knowledge level of the patient or designated support person.
• Protects the patient’s rights, dignity, and privacy.
• Provides age-specific, culturally competent, ethical care within legal guidelines.
• Evaluates the patient’s progress toward attaining outcomes.
• Transfers care as applicable.
• Acts as a patient advocate and maintains privacy and confidentiality of individuals and health information.
• Communicates with patients, teammates, and physicians to ensure continuity of care.
• Reviews charts for completeness, in accordance with documentation protocols prior to and after the surgical procedure.
• Documents nursing care accurately, completely, and legibly.
• Adheres to all relevant health and safety standards.
• Collaborates effectively with other disciplines as applicable.
• Participates in the performance appraisal process.
• Participates in quality review and performance improvement projects.
• Uses problem-solving and conflict resolution skills to foster effective work relationships with team members.
• Maintains required competencies.
• Pursues professional growth and participates in a professional organization.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Retirement options (403(b) & 457)
• Discounts on medical services provided by Whitman Hospital and Medical Clinics
• Differentials apply for evening, night, and weekend shifts
• Unique PTO plan enables employees to increase their accrual with each year of service

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees