Endoscopy Pulmonary Resource Nurse

Endoscopy Pulmonary Resource Nurse at St. Elizabeth Healthcare

Job Type: Regular

Scheduled

Hours:

36

Why You’ll Love Working with St. Elizabeth Healthcare

zabeth Healthcare, every role supports our mission to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to the communities we serve. For more than 160 years, St. Elizabeth Healthcare has been a trusted provider of quality care across Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. We’re guided by our mission to improve the health of the communities we serve and by our values of excellence, integrity, compassion, and teamwork.

Our associates are the heart of everything we do.

Benefits That Support You

• Competitive pay and comprehensive health coverage within the first 30 days.
• Generous paid time off and flexible work schedules.
• Retirement savings with employer match.
• Tuition reimbursement and professional development opportunities.
• Wellness, mental health, and recognition programs.
• Career advancement through mentorship and internal mobility.

The professional nurse provides evidence-based nursing care utilizing the nursing process to meet the surgical needs of the patient in the perioperative setting. The RN is responsible for appropriately delegating tasks to other licensed/unlicensed health care team members as deemed appropriate by training and education. The RN collaborates with multidisciplinary healthcare team members when providing nursing care. Responsible for ensuring effective communication, collaboration, and coordination of activities within assigned specialty.

Responsible for ensuring the availability of specialty instrumentation, equipment, and supplies for surgical procedures. Demonstrate respect, dignity, kindness and empathy in each encounter with all patients, families, visitors and other employees regardless of cultural background.

• Utilizes the nursing process and functions as the patient advocate for the patient’s plan of care based on an accurate/concise patient assessment.
• Respects the patient’s ethnic origin and spiritual beliefs and the right to privacy and confidentiality.
• Appropriately prioritizes multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Works with anesthesia providers in delivering nursing care to patients requiring anesthesia.
• When assigned as the Charge Nurse, collaborates with perioperative management team, anesthesia coordinator and surgeons in the provision of surgical patient care throughout the surgical suite.

• Demonstrates professionalism as a perioperative nurse and ensures ongoing personal growth and development.
• Under the supervision of the surgeon, may suture skin layer closed.
• Knowledgeable of aseptic techniques when functioning in the perioperative setting and functions in the role of circulating nurse and scrub nurse.
• Collaborates with Assistant Nurse Manager and Clinical Educator to plan and provide clinical orientation/precepting of orientees and ongoing education/specialty training of staff.
• When assigned as Technology Resource Nurse, provides effective equipment and device troubleshooting support for staff.

• Knowledgeable of and properly administers medications in the perioperative setting. Maintains a safe environment for optimal patient outcomes.
• Performs and documents accurate and complete sponge, needle, sharps, and instrument counts.
• When assigned as Technology Resource Nurse, ensures availability and proper operation of equipment and devices in collaboration with clinical engineering personnel.

• Documents perioperative course of care accurately and concisely.
• Participates in performance improvement activities and utilizes data to positively impact patient outcomes.
• Demonstrates excellent customer service skills in dealing with patients, visitors, and health care team members.
• Collaborates with Director of Perioperative Business Operations and marketing department regarding new surgical procedures/technology.
• Reviews surgical procedures to ensure physician/patient specialty instrumentation/supply/equipment needs are met.
• When assigned as Technology Resource Nurse, ensures comprehensive, effective support for medical device/equipment systems in collaboration…