Surgical Services/Float RN
About The Position
The Registered Nurse is responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, evaluating, reassessing, and documenting care for patients undergoing surgery and receiving outpatient or inpatient care. The RN provides care across developmental stages from newborn through geriatrics and bears ultimate responsibility for the quality of nursing care provided. The role follows accepted standards of nursing practice, fulfills Operating Room role expectations, delegates duties as appropriate, and provides appropriate supervision. The nurse also cross-trains across circulating and scrub roles, PACU/recovery, outpatient testing, and departments throughout the facility to support daily needs.
Requirements
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
- Basic nursing skills, with additional education in surgical procedures and the procedures being performed.
- Knowledge of anesthetic agents and a basic understanding of the stages of anesthesia from induction through recovery.
- Knowledge and training to provide care to patients from pediatrics through geriatrics.
- Ability to perform testing for required outpatient procedures.
- Current, unrestricted New York State registered professional nursing license.
- ACLS certification.
Nice To Haves
- BSN or BS in Nursing from an accredited school.
- National certification in a nursing specialty, such as AORN.
- Good communication and computer skills.
- Independent, critical thinker with good assessment skills.
- AMS experience.
- PALS certification.
Responsibilities
- Perform comprehensive patient assessments to identify needs, and provide testing, care, and interventions specific to each patient.
- Develop and implement comprehensive, individualized plans of care.
- Collaborate effectively with other disciplines.
- Maintain required competencies, education, and training.
- Act as a patient advocate and maintain the privacy of appropriate information.
- Use problem-solving and conflict-resolution skills to foster effective working relationships with team members.
- Protect patients from injury caused by chemicals, lasers, positioning, thermal sources, and extraneous objects.
- Perform count procedures in accordance with policy to prevent retained foreign objects.
- Ensure the correct patient, site, side, and level.
- Manage patient specimens appropriately.
- Administer medications appropriately.
- Protect patients from infection.
- Maintain patients' normothermia throughout the perioperative period and preserve their baseline physical status.
- Provide culturally competent, age-appropriate, ethical care within scope of practice.
- Protect patients' rights and dignity.
- Provide preoperative and postoperative patient care.
- Cross-train to circulate and scrub cases as needed.
- Cross-train in the PACU/recovery room nurse role and outpatient testing areas.
- Cross-train throughout departments to assist with the facility's day-to-day needs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Education Level
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