RN - Same Day Surgery

Overview

River View Health, is a community owned, membership based non-profit organization that was formed in 1898 and continues to be the sole community hospital in Crookston, MN.

River View Health operates a 25 bed Critical Access Hospital, River View Recovery Center; a chemical dependency outpatient treatment program, River View Home Care and five primary care and specialty clinics in the hospitals service area.

We have a robust scholarship program for those furthering their education in a medical field, excellent benefits, and a friendly work environment. Full-time benefits include health insurance, free single vision and basic dental insurance, life insurance, long-term disability and short-term disability, and employer HSA contributions. Other benefits include employer pension matching, shift differential, incentive/premium pay, free annual biometric screening and paid volunteer time off.

River View is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

Job Title: Register Nurse (RN)
Position Status: 1.0 fte (80 hours per pay period)
Department: OR - Same Day Surgery Salary Range: $35.68 - $49.96 / per hour (based on experience)

Position Summary: The Same Day Surgery Registered Nurse (RN) provides comprehensive, patient-centered nursing care to patients undergoing outpatient surgical procedures. This role functions across the perioperative continuum, including preoperative, post-anesthesia care (PACU), and discharge phases. The RN works collaboratively with the interprofessional team to ensure safe, high-quality, evidence-based care while promoting optimal patient outcomes and experiences.

Essential Functions:

• Executes nursing interventions by collaborating with the interprofessional team incorporating appropriate standards of care and practice and patient outcomes
• Evaluates patients response to plan of care and works in collaboration with the interprofessional team to make any needed adjustments.
• Utilizes data to continuously meet care coordination needed across settings in conjunction with the patient, family, and/or other care providers
• Assumes responsibility and accountability for effectively managing nursing care of individual patients
• Documents nursing assessment and interventions to reflect comprehensive and integrated approaches to patient care in the electronic record
• Provides care that is safe, ethical, patient and family centered, and evidence based.
• Works independently within their scope of practice to achieve clinical outcomes appropriate for the patient and their families.
• Monitor patient while awaking from anesthesia in the PACU setting
• Review and act on test results
• Initiate and monitor intravenous (IV) infusions
• Provide patient education
• Complete accurate and timely documentation in the electronic medical record
• Serve as a mentor, preceptor, and/or resource to others
• Assist with the coordination of care across the continuum (e.g. inpatient, outpatient, Ambulatory)
• Minor cleaning of the department, stocking rooms, patient follow up phone calls, and checking patient charges.

Minimum(s):

• Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing, A.D.N or BSN
• Current State of Minnesota RN license
• Current BLS, ACLS, PALS and TNCC Certifications (if not current, must attain within 6 months of hire.

Preferred(s):

• 1+ years of Inpatient, Emergency Department, Infusion Therapy, or Same Day Surgery nursing experience.

Competencies:

• Strong clinical assessment, critical thinking, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to manage multiple patients in a fast-paced ambulatory surgical environment.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills with patients, families, and the healthcare team.
• Commitment to patient safety, quality care, and professional nursing practice.