RN (Surgical Svcs.)

Sullivan County Community Hospital•Sullivan, IN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

This role involves providing nursing care within the surgical services department. The Registered Nurse (RN) will perform nursing interventions using the nursing process and current clinical knowledge. Responsibilities include assessing patient health status, planning and implementing perioperative care, and evaluating the effectiveness of care. The RN will also supervise perioperative nursing associates and assistants, scrub and/or circulate surgical procedures, and demonstrate effective airway management and cardiac monitoring in post-anesthesia recovery. Continuous acquisition of surgical skills through various learning methods is expected.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
Graduate of a formal perioperative nursing course or documented on-the-job training
Possesses circulating and/or scrubbing duty experience
Performs nursing intervention using the nursing process and incorporating current clinical knowledge with established nursing practice
Continuously acquires surgery skills through clinical experience, on-the-job training, inservice, and continuing education
Proficiently reads, writes, and understands English
Accurately reads fine print, supply labels, patient identification bracelets, the surgical schedule, and policies and procedures
Accurately hears and follows verbal instructions
Pushes and pulls heavy objects such as gurneys, patient beds and OR beds
Lifts patients, heavy boxes weighing up to 40 pounds, and instrument sets weighing up to 20 pounds
Registered Nurse licensed to practice in the state of Indiana
CPR
ACLS

Nice To Haves

Possesses at least one year experience in a clinical setting

Responsibilities

Assesses the physiological health status of the patient on admission to the operating room and performs an ongoing assessment of the patient’s physiological health status during the intraoperative period.
Assesses psychological, sociocultural, and spiritual status on admission to the operating room.
Identifies nursing diagnoses appropriate to the intraoperative and postoperative period.
Plans care based on the patient’s problems/needs in the assessment.
Plans and coordinates patient care perioperatively to allow for patient comfort by efficient use of down time; using surgeon’s preference cards; and by coordinating activities of other disciplines to implement individual plan of care.
Initiates discharge planning for local and endoscopy patients which includes patient and family instruction/teaching, resource referral.
Implements perioperative nursing care according to an established plan of care and operating room policies and procedures.
Supervises perioperative nursing associates and assistants assigned to perform the actions necessary to accomplish the identified goals.
Scrubs and/or circulates simple as well as complex surgical and endoscopy procedures.
Evaluates the effectiveness of the care provided.
Communicates and perioperative nursing care.
Designs, implements, and evaluates systems to improve the quality of perioperative nursing patient care.
Assumes on-call for department.
Demonstrates effective airway management; frequently monitors respiratory adequacy and intervenes appropriately.
Monitors cardiac system of post-op patient.
Identifies arrhythmias and evidence of shock, intervening appropriately when necessary.
Utilizes PAR scoring system to determine patient status toward post-anesthesia recovery.
Demonstrates a knowledge of proper documentation and charging procedures (e.g. vital signs, I&O, patient care record).