About This Role
This full-time role as an Operating Room Circulator Nurse involves assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care for patients of all ages in the operating room. The nurse provides care within established nursing standards and center policies, making decisions regarding direct patient care needs and communicating information to various stakeholders. The position is in a fast-paced outpatient surgery center environment committed to high-quality patient care.
Responsibilities
- Assess patients at intervals as stated in policies and procedures
- Develop an individualized perioperative plan of care
- Implement the plan of care using various interventions
- Protect patients from injury caused by chemical, electrical, laser, positioning, thermal sources, and extraneous objects
- Perform count procedures to protect patients from unintended retained foreign objects
- Perform interventions necessary to ensure patient’s procedure is performed on the correct site, side, and level
- Manage patient’s specimen(s) in the appropriate manner
- Communicate patient’s current status throughout the continuum of care
- Administer medication(s) appropriately
- Perform interventions to maintain patient's wound and tissue perfusion at or above baseline levels
- Perform 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
- Perform interventions to ensure the patient is at or returned to normothermia at the conclusion of the immediate postoperative period
- Perform interventions to protect patients from infection
- Assess knowledge level of patient or designated support person and provide education regarding expected psychosocial response, nutritional management, medication management, pain management, wound management, and expected responses to the operative or invasive procedure
- Actively involve patient or designated support person in decisions affecting their perioperative plan of care and rehabilitation process
- Protect patient’s rights, dignity, and privacy
- Provide culturally competent, age-appropriate, ethical care within legal standards of practice
- Provide consistent and comparable care regardless of the setting
- Evaluate the patient’s progress toward attaining outcomes
- Transfer care as appropriate
- Delegate tasks as appropriate according to the state Nurse Practice Act and job descriptions
- Document nursing care
- Collaborate effectively with other disciplines as appropriate
- Participate in quality review and performance improvement projects
