Registered Nurse - Operating Room

About This Role

This nursing role involves directing and managing the care of designated operative patients, performing ongoing assessments, and maintaining a safe environment. The Registered Nurse handles instruments, supplies, and equipment during surgical procedures and develops a perioperative nursing care plan based on comprehensive patient assessment.

Responsibilities

• Assist operating physician with surgical tasks such as homeostasis, suturing, wound exposure, and patient positioning
• Contribute to the overall care of the patient before, during, and after surgery by using technical and mechanical functions
• Perform circulating functions such as monitoring, recording, and communicating patient condition and managing overall nursing care of the patient before, during, and after the procedure
• Perform scrub functions such as the selection and handling of instruments and supplies used during procedure
• Recognize the need for and initiate collaboration/communication with physicians and interdisciplinary team members, and take actions to proactively resolve patient needs
• Inspect sterile items for integrity before opening or delivery to the sterile field and verify the presence and appropriate color change of chemical indicators in all loads
• Collect data pertinent to the healthcare consumer's health or the situation and analyze the assessment data to determine actual or potential diagnoses, problems, and issues
• Control environment including temperature, provision of warm blankets, use of warm irrigation fluids, monitoring of the sensory environment, control traffic flow, and adhere to safety and sanitation policies

Requirements

• Specialized Diploma Nursing
• Less than 1 year of current operating room experience or completion of perioperative internship program
• Ability to perform assessments and nursing functions as acquired in the basic nursing preparation program
• Ability to plan, review, supervise, and inspect the work of others
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills
• Minimum ability to circulate surgical procedures
• American Heart Association Basic Life Support - State of Pennsylvania
• RN - Licensed Registered Nurse_PA - State of Pennsylvania

Nice to have:

• Ability to scrub surgical procedures
• CNOR - Certified Nurse Operating Room CCICBPN - State of Pennsylvania

Important Details

• Schedule: Monday - Friday 7:00a-3:30p and 8:00a-4:30p, variable
• Physical Demands: Lift and carry 40-50 lbs. (e.g., push/pull patients on bed, stretcher requiring 29 lbs. push force), lateral transfers up to 50 lbs. of the patient's weight. Frequent to continuous standing/walking. Patient transporters can walk 8-10 miles per shift. Patient care providers may be required to perform activities specific to their role including kneeling, bending, squatting and performing CPR.