RN, Pre Admission Testing, Per Diem, 8 Hour Day Shift

Overview

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Hours:
Per Diem, 8 Hour Day Shift

$37.26 - $76.63

Job Summary:

Primary role of a pre-admission testing Register Nurse (RN) is to evaluate patients prior to their arrival to perioperative services, which includes, but is not limited to: completing and documenting a thorough nursing assessment, history and physical as applicable, initiate pertinent patient teaching, initiate and evaluate pertinent diagnostic tests and notify physicians/providers as necessary. Pre-admission testing RN works closely with perioperative staff, surgeons, proceduralists and anesthesia providers to ensure patient readiness for their scheduled procedures.

Essential Functions

• Provides patient care based on standards of care, standards of practice, protocols, and established policies and procedures.
• Respects each patient as an individual; provides care that fosters the patient’s sense of dignity and positive self-regard.
• Provides patient/family teaching based on identified learning needs, readiness to learn, and barriers to learning.
• Collaboratively plans and prepares patient/family for discharge incorporating support systems/resources as necessary.
• Appropriately delegates and supervises nursing interventions performed by others
• Appropriately prioritizes patient care (e.g. seeks assistance as needed from appropriate resources, reassigns personnel as necessary, recognizes need for emergency intervention, etc.).
• Provides thorough, timely, and accurate documentation of all pertinent data, therapeutic interventions and patient responses according to established standards.
• Provides timely and thorough report on assigned patients to other health care team members to ensure integration of services and continuity of patient care.
• Promotes learning for colleagues and self (e.g. functions as preceptor, instructor, trainer, attends professional development programs, etc.).
• Proactively identifies risk to patient safety and identifies opportunities to reduce medical/health care errors (i.e. appropriate reporting of errors/incidents).
• Identifies ethical issues in care and develops plan to address.
• Assesses patient pain level as necessary, depending upon diagnosis utilizing the numerical pain scale
• Obtains supporting information and completes required documentation related to medication reconciliation in the electronic record.
• Collaborates with surgeon, proceduralist, radiologist, anesthesiologist, cardiologist, primary care physician, etc to assure patients’ wellbeing and appropriate plan for perioperative period.
• Assures pertinent diagnostic tests (e.g. labs, EKG, xray, etc) are obtained. Communicates abnormal values effectively to medical providers as necessary.
• Identifies patients correctly by checking patient identification bands and consent forms as well as verifying operative procedure and site.
• Demonstrates competency in providing infection prevention, pre-anesthesia and post-operative care education to patients, family or health care proxy as applicable.
• Seeks out learning opportunities, practice recommendations and updates relevant to perioperative care.
• Exhibits excellent customer relations to patients, visitors, physicians and co-workers. Provides compassionate patient centered care at all times.
• Demonstrates competency in accurate and thorough documentation of pre-admission nursing assessment, history, physical (as applicable) and pre-anesthesia screening.
• Maintains all competencies and certifications required for this position

Statement of Other Duties

This document describes the major duties and responsibilities for this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that employees may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described.

Functional Demands

Physical Requirements Exerts 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects. Frequently reaches (extending…