Surgery Center RN

We are currently looking for aFull Time Surgery Center RNto join our Surgery Center Team team located at the Chickasaw Nation Medical Center.

Summary: Performs comprehensive assessments and develops patient-centered care plans in collaboration with patients, families, and the healthcare team. Provides professional nursing care, education, and administers intravenous therapy including medications, fluids, and nutrition per physician orders.

Responsibilities:

• Promotes the mission, vision, and core values of the Chickasaw Nation
• Acts as a patient advocate and maintains patient confidentiality at all times
• Treats patients, visitors, and staff courteously and professionally
• Treats all customers, vendors, and other employees of CNDH with respect and maintains a cooperative attitude to facilitate quality patient care
• Adheres to Chickasaw Nation Department of Health safety practices, policies and procedures, department specific practices, and practices based upon industry standards/requirements according to AORN, OSHA, CDC, and FDA
• Demonstrates appropriate problem solving and communication skills
• Demonstrates the ability to multitask in a professional manner and positive attitude under all circumstances
• Demonstrates good telephone etiquette skills
• Provides a safe environment for patients, staff, and visitors by the reduction and control of environmental hazards and risks, and the prevention of accidents and injuries
• Demonstrates effective communication, consultation, negotiation, collaboration, and conflict resolution skills/techniques with members of the perioperative team, as well as other departments and disciplines
• Serves as a positive promoter of change and growth within the surgery center, while serving as a role model of professional behavior
• Assesses the physical, bio-psychosocial, and health education needs of all patients
• Develops an individualized perioperative specific plan of care based upon information obtained in the assessment process
• Protects the patient from injury caused by chemical, electrical, mechanical, and thermal sources and extraneous objects
• Performs accounting procedures to protect the patient from unintended retained surgical items and adheres to established policies and procedures for discrepancies (if necessary) and documents such
• Performs interventions necessary to ensure that the patient’s procedure is performed on the correct site, side, and level
• Managing the patient’s specimens in the appropriate manner by preserving and labeling as specified by the surgeon
• Communicates the patient’s current status to the appropriate parties throughout the continuum of care
• Administers medications safely and correctly
• Performs interventions to maintain the patient’s wound and tissue perfusion at or above baseline levels
• Performs 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
• Performs interventions to ensure the patient is at or returned to normothermia at the conclusion of the immediate postoperative period
• Performs interventions to protect the patient from surgical site infection
• Assesses the knowledge level of the patient or designated support person
• Provides education regarding the expected psychosocial response, nutritional management, medication management, pain management, wound management, and expected responses to the operative or invasive procedure
• Actively involves the patient or designated support person in decisions affecting his or her perioperative plan of care and the rehabilitation process
• Protects the patient’s rights, dignity, and privacy
• Provides culturally and…