RN Operating Room Evenings

HonorHealth•Scottsdale, AZ

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse (RN) practices according to the ANA Standards of Professional Nursing Practice and Code of Ethics. The RN provides and coordinates patient care, including assessing patients, analyzing data, developing and revising individualized care plans, carrying out interventions, monitoring progress, documenting care, and educating patients and families. Care should be family-centered, developmentally and age-appropriate, culturally relevant, evidence-based, and responsive to patients’ physical, emotional, spiritual, and social-cultural needs. The RN collaborates with physicians and other members of the multidisciplinary team, provides direction to licensed practical nurses and nursing aides, and delegates appropriately. The RN also contributes to professional development by precepting new hires and students, supporting competency development, maintaining current nursing knowledge, and participating in efforts to improve nursing practice and patient outcomes. Circulating experience in an operating room is required. The position is based at Shea Medical Center in Scottsdale, Arizona. The listed shift is 8:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., three 12-hour shifts per week.

Requirements

Required Associate degree or diploma in nursing.
Required current Arizona nursing license or compact-state licensure upon hire; Arizona licensure must be obtained within 60 days of hire.
Required Basic Life Support certification through training course C, with unit-specific certification as required by the specialty area.
Required more than 10 months of medical-surgical or acute-specialty-setting experience.
Operating room circulating experience is required.
Diploma- and associate-degree hires must complete a BSN within 60 months of hire or have at least five years of RN experience at the time of hire.
All staff with direct responsibility for stroke patients must meet the stroke-specific education requirements before starting.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN).
National certification for the unit-specific patient population.
One year of RN experience for float positions.

Responsibilities

Collect and prioritize health data systematically, involving the patient’s family as appropriate.
Analyze assessment data and use nursing diagnoses to develop, implement, evaluate, and revise individualized plans of care.
Identify patient-specific expected outcomes and develop evidence-based plans that support continuity of care.
Implement plan-of-care interventions and initiate treatments, medications, and emergency or resuscitative measures in accordance with standing orders, policies, and procedures.
Provide nursing care addressing patients’ physical, emotional, spiritual, and social-cultural needs through a family-centered approach.
Evaluate patient progress toward expected outcomes and the quality and effectiveness of the care plan.
Document observations, nursing interventions, therapeutic measures, monitoring data, and other relevant patient-care information.
Evaluate personal nursing practice against professional standards, laws, regulations, and system and department policies; maintain current nursing knowledge.
Integrate ethical principles into nursing practice and enhance understanding of cultural and diversity needs.
Collaborate with patients, families, physicians, and multidisciplinary healthcare providers to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care.
Contribute to professional development of peers and other healthcare providers through role-modeling, peer relationships, precepting, and mentoring.
Develop and evaluate evidence-based standards of care and identify opportunities to improve nursing practice.
Participate in and apply evidence-based research to improve nursing practice and patient outcomes.
Support the integration of research into clinical, educational, and managerial practice.
Use resources effectively and efficiently while considering safety, effectiveness, and cost in patient-care planning and delivery.
Provide direction to licensed practical nurses and nursing aides and delegate care when appropriate.
Precept new-hire staff and students and help them complete competency requirements.
Record patients’ medical histories and symptoms, assist with diagnostic tests and analysis, operate medical equipment, administer treatments and medications, and support patient follow-up and rehabilitation.
Teach patients and families about illness or injury management, post-treatment and home-care needs, diet, nutrition, exercise, and self-administration of medication and therapy.