Operating Room Registered Nurse

Job Description

• Consults and coordinates with health care team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care plans
• Serves as the communication liaison to family and members of the operating team
• Takes and monitors patients’ vital signs
• Ensures that operating on correct patient and the correct procedure is being performed
• Provides basic, bedside care
• Prepares and administers (orally, subcutaneously, through an IV) and records prescribed medications. Reports adverse reactions to medications or treatments in accordance with the policy regarding the administration of medications by a licensed registered nurse
• Responds to life‑saving situations based upon nursing standards and protocol
• Records all care information concisely, accurately and completely, in a timely manner, in the appropriate format and on the appropriate forms
• Preps operating room for patient/procedure
• Initiates corrective action whenever information from monitoring equipment shows adverse symptomatology
• Monitors patients’ physical and emotional well‑being throughout the care continuum
• Initiates patient education plan, as prescribed by physician. Teaches patients and significant others how to manage their post‑treatment home‑care needs, self‑administration of medication and rehabilitation
• Assists in positioning, responding to comfort/safety of patient
• Provides for accurate care and handling of specimens
• Observes and enforces strict standards of asepsis
• Observes, checks and monitors all equipment used during surgery to confirm they are running smoothly
• Handles patient documentation
• May select and handle instruments and supplies used for the operation, passing them to surgeon
• Inventories all items both pre‑ and post‑surgery
• Nurses First Assist, with the following additional duties:
  Delivers direct surgical care by assisting physicians, helps control bleeding, provides wound exposure, sutures patients after the surgery
• Follows facility and OSHA safety rules and procedures while on assignment
• Upholds HIPAA regulations