Registered Nurse

Under general direction, the Registered Nurse monitors patients, supports the providers, and documents procedures.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

* Ensures continual delivery of high-quality nursing care

* Adopts and implements innovative nursing practices to improve the facility

* Maintains a healthy, collaborative team environment

* Mentors/trains other surgical staff, as needed

* Promotes positive customer relations within the ASC

* Has working knowledge of all equipment and procedures

* Oversees safety surveillance and task related responsibilities that have been delegated to others to ensure effective and desired results

* Oversees infection control surveillance and task related responsibilities that have been delegated to others to ensure effective and desired results

* Maintains documentation of patient care services by auditing patient and department records, including but not limited to autoclave receipts

* Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies

* Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information; responding to requests; building rapport; participating in team problem-solving methods

* Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed

* Consults and coordinates with health care team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care plans

* Monitors all aspects of patient care

* Prepares rooms, sterile instruments, equipment and supplies

* Deals compassionately, professionally, and courteously with patients, their families, physicians, and fellow employees

* Follows safety and infection control procedures

* Adheres to all federal, state and nursing regulations and protocols including but not limited to patient safety procedures such as verification of patient identification prior to procedures

* Ensures that immediately prior to the start of any procedure in the procedure room, initiate a time-out and ensure correct patient, procedure, site and side, and that there are no additional concerns.

* Identifies every patient with two identifiers: full name and date of birth

* Documents this information in the Procedure Safety Checklist, including the time of the time-out

* Identifies an emergency situation and is able to appropriately intervene

* Understands and administers regulatory policies (i.e.: Joint Commission/AAAHC, CDC, State, etc.)

* Deploys, monitors, and ensures that the facilities operational processes are appropriately integrated within the facilitys quality programs

* Maintains patient, physician, and employee privacy and confidentiality in accordance with HIPAA, Company and other regulatory standards

* Assists with supply ordering, as needed

* Provides clinical support for procedures

* Maintains accurate, detailed reports and records

* Monitors, records and reports symptoms and changes in patients' conditions

* Records patients' medical information and vital signs

* Ensures history and physicals are complete on each patient, by the provider, prior to procedures

* Consults and coordinate with health care team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care plans

* Instructs individuals, families and others on topics such as health education, disease prevention and develop health improvement programs

* Oversees and ensures that daily/quarterly/annual binders/logs are up to date

* Informs physician of patient's condition before, during and after procedures

* Acts as a liaison between the physician and the patient and patients family or support person(s)

* Maintains the role of patient advocate

* Ensures, provides and explains discharge instructions to all patients

* Ensures physician has cleared patient for discharge prior to discharging the patient

* Assists in the stocking and inventory of the clinical area

* Ensures all applicable Surgery Center staff and guests wear radiation badges

* Maintains and stores radiation safety equipment

* Conducts annual apron and thyroid shield inspections

* Conducts safety drills, as required

* Conducts daily inventory of and ensures policies…