Burley Asc - Registered Nurse

Overview

Mountain View Hospital is looking for a Registered Nurse to join our team!

• Conducting pre-operative assessments, initiating IV therapy, administering medications, and educating patients and families about procedures and rights.
• Delivering intra-operative care by maintaining aseptic techniques, assisting with anesthesia, monitoring patient status, and ensuring surgical safety protocols are followed.
• Managing post-operative recovery by monitoring airway, vital signs, pain control, and readiness for discharge, while responding promptly to emergencies.

• Adheres to and practices MVH Compliance Program and participates in Performance Improvement activities.
• Is knowledgeable of policies and procedures of the department and facility.
• Maintains professional competency through appropriate continuing education.
• Performs other related duties incidental to the work described herein, or as assigned by the Team Leader/Charge Nurse, OR Manager, and Director of Surgical Services.
• Demonstrates an awareness of safe conditions and safe acts as related to hospital employment.
• Maintain BLS, ACLS and PALS Certifications
• Complies with attendance requirements per Mountain View Hospital Policy.

• Performs the perioperative nursing role to include preoperative assessment of the patient, nursing care plan formulation, operative care plan implementation, and postoperative evaluation of the patient’s response/outcome. Also evaluates the effectiveness and appropriateness of nursing care provided with documentation of such.
• Demonstrates understanding and utilization of principles of asepsis in all duties.
• Assists in the setting up and performance of cases by assembly of equipment and supplies according to sterile technique.
• Ensure history and physical is signed by physician and within 30 days of surgery. Reads time out from the surgical consent prior to start of the procedure.
• Assists in the setting up and performance of cases by opening of sterile pack, instruments, and supplies according to sterile technique.
• Prepares each patient for surgery by: positioning the patient in the appropriate position, preparing the patient’s operative site, confirming the procedure and site according to the surgeon’s history and physical and operating room team, and helping move the patient to and from the operating table. Obtain ordered medications through medication dispensing system. Prepare ordered solutions for surgical cases.
• Assists anesthesia personnel with the intubation/extubation of patients, the monitoring of fluid volume balance, the administration of blood/blood products, and the thermo-regulation of the patient.
• Performs and documents surgical counts (sponges, sharps, and instruments) and documents nursing care on legal records.
• Handles and logs in specimens according to proper procedure/policy. Orders lab supplies as needed.
• Assists in the clean up of the operating room following surgery, including proper disposal of used supplies and sharps.
• Assumes responsibility for intra-operative patient safety related to positioning activities, the use of equipment, and the use of chemicals and solutions.
• Is responsible for complete and thorough performance of assigned tasks, addressing specific needs of pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric patients as necessary.
• Acts as the nursing advocate for the patient, upholding the patient’s rights. Collaborates with other professional team members.
• Monitors the patient’s level of consciousness, electrocardiogram, blood pressure, and oxygen saturation during local anesthetic procedures.
• Uses supplies conservatively and efficiently.
• Performs infection control activities to include observation of the surgical team during procedures, taking corrective actions as needed to maintain aseptic technique. Provides a surgically clean environment for patient care. Ensures the sterility of supplies and instrumentation used during operative procedures.

• Maintains area in a state of readiness at all times, ensuring that all necessary equipment is available and in good working order, with age specific supplies ready for use as needed.
• Assesses…