Registered Nurse - Operating Room

About This Role

This Registered Nurse position is for an OR Circulator who will provide safe, effective, and quality patient-family centered care in the Operating Room for all patient populations. The role involves promoting and restoring patients' health by completing the nursing process and collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary team members. The center operates on a teamwork concept, and employees may be cross-trained in other clinical areas.

Responsibilities

• Promote the mission, vision, and values of the organization
• Adhere to principles of Universal Precautions and maintain confidentiality of patient and Center-related business
• Obtain and document nursing history from patients and/or significant others that is comprehensive of present condition and prior problems
• Prepare the patient for the procedure and handle the preparation of the operating room before the surgery
• Record vital signs, note changes, and pursue more-specific investigations as needed
• Provide technical assistance to surgeons
• Perform interventions necessary to ensure that the patient's procedure is performed on the correct site, side, and level
• Perform interventions to protect patient from surgical infection
• Manage the patient's specimens in the appropriate manner
• Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions
• Assure quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments, and following Center and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care; including those outlined by the State Nurse Practice Act and other governing agency regulations
• Prepare, document, and administer medications safely and correctly
• Inventory medications at the beginning and end of the shift; notify supervisor of discrepancies
• Document patient care services by charting in patient and department records
• Conduct pre- and post-operative education
• Provide education regarding the expected psychosocial response, nutritional management, medication and pain management, wound management, and expected responses to the operative or invasive procedure
• Accept accountability for clinical care of assigned patients including supervision of nonprofessional personnel
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies
• Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Graduate from an accredited school of nursing
• Current registered nurse licensure in state of employment