Registered Nurse - Main Operating Room

Registered Nurse - Main Operating Room, FT

Job Description Summary

• Integrates physiologic, medical, surgical, and anesthetic information to give appropriate patient care.
• Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, implement, evaluate, delegate, supervise and document care.
• Effectively communicates pertinent patient/family information to the health care team, participates in finding solutions for variances from patient goals and ensures implementation of those solutions.
• Cares for surgical patients of all ages and all levels of acuity.
• Coordinates care of patient groups with multi-system needs.
• Provides leadership in the coordination and delivery of quality compassionate patient care.

Job Description

Provides nursing care to patients using the nursing process (assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation). Directs and leads other assigned team members and collaborates with multidisciplinary team members to provide age/developmentally appropriate care in accordance with nursing standards of care and practice. Provides patient/family centered care using the nursing process, focusing on the physical, emotional, spiritual, cultural, religious, and environmental needs. This includes providing for the assessment, development of nursing diagnoses, outcome identification, planning, implementation of interventions, coordination of care, health teaching and promotion and evaluation of goals and interventions consistent with the policies of MUSC.

Maintains a safe, therapeutic, and healing environment through ensuring patient privacy and responsive, respectful, accepting, and professional behavior. Demonstrates the ability to function in a professional setting through active participation in a professional practice model, participation in shared governance, adherence to standards of care, participation in peer review and professional development promoting leadership and clinical excellence, effective team skills, autonomous practice and acknowledgment of accountability for actions and critical thinking.

Coordinates the effective and efficient delivery of patient care services through the application of care management principles. Identifies clinical priorities and initiates action to improve patient outcomes.

Additional Job Description

• Education: Graduate of a School of Professional Nursing
• Experience: Previous experience preferred
• Licenses/Certificates: License to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of South Carolina, Current BLS certification

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