RN- OR (FT- 1.0 FTE, Variable with call)
About The Position
This is a full-time (1.0 FTE) Operating Room Registered Nurse position with variable hours and on-call responsibilities. The role requires assessing patient conditions before surgery, ensuring the Operating Room is fully equipped with necessary supplies, implants, instrumentation, and equipment, and maintaining a sterile environment. The nurse will pass instruments to surgeons during operations, monitor patient vital signs, and evaluate postoperative patients. Responsibilities also include reviewing charts for completeness according to documentation protocols before and after surgical procedures, and adhering to all health and safety standards. Essential Job Functions include collecting comprehensive patient data, analyzing this data to determine diagnoses, identifying expected outcomes, developing and implementing a plan of care, promoting health and safety, enhancing nursing practice quality, attaining current nursing knowledge and competency, evaluating one's own practice, interacting with and contributing to the professional development of peers, collaborating with patients and families, integrating ethical provisions, integrating research findings into practice, and providing leadership in the professional practice setting and the profession.
Requirements
- Minimum 2 years of experience required.
Responsibilities
- Assess patient’s condition before surgery.
- Ensure that the Operating Room is prepared with all necessary supplies, implants, instrumentation, and equipment.
- Keep the operating room sterilized.
- Pass medical instruments to the surgeons during operation.
- Monitor patient’s vital signs.
- Evaluate postoperative patients.
- Reviews charts for completeness, in accordance with documentation protocols prior to and after the surgical procedure.
- Adhere to all relevant health and safety standards.
- Collects Comprehensive data pertinent to the patient’s health or the situation (Assessment)
- Analyzes the assessment data to determine diagnoses or issues (Diagnosis)
- Identifies expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the patient or the situation
- Develops a plan that prescribes strategies and alternatives to attain expected outcomes (Plan of Care)
- Implements the identified plan of care
- Employs strategies to promote health and a safe environment
- Systematically enhances the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice
- Attains knowledge and competency that reflects current nursing practice
- Evaluates one’s own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules and regulations
- Interacts with and contributes to the professional development of peers and colleagues
- Collaborates with patient, family and others in the conduct of nursing practice
- Integrates ethical provisions in all areas of practice
- Integrates research findings into practice
- Provides leadership in the professional practice setting and the profession
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
