RN-Surgery

Job Summary:

The Surgery staff nurse reports to the Patient Care Coordinator and the Patient Care Manager of Surgery. Surgery staff nurses must be detail-oriented, flexible, able to juggle multiple priorities without missing a beat, adept with technical skills, and team players, and must possess excellent communication skills. They must be able to think critically in a fast-paced and challenging environment. This person must be able to function in a variety of specialties such as neurology, orthopedics, general, gynecology, urology, robotics, plastics, dental, maxillofacial, and ENT.

The ideal candidate will have strong sense of urgency and accountability, with a notable pride in self and drive for excellence.

Items considered essential functions of the job are listed below.

• Ability to effectively communicate with patients, physicians, and co-workers in a manner consistent with a customer service focus and application of positive language principles.
• Provides for exceptional patient and coworker experiences by following our standards of practice of always using positive language.
• Demonstrates independence and exercises sound judgment in interactions with physicians and the interprofessional care team.
• Promotes a positive work environment with the OR team.
• Collaborates with all members of the OR team by actively communicating and reporting pertinent information in a comprehensive manner.
• Exhibits open and professional communication.
• Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate the nursing care of patients undergoing surgical intervention.
• Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development.
• Possesses the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interprets the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his/her age specific needs.
• Provides the care needed as described in the department's policies and procedures with a focus on surgical counts, prepping, timeouts, and specimen handling.
• Provides direct patient care effectively and efficiently, which may include patient with varied and complex needs.
• Demonstrates clinical competence when providing care, using technology, administering medications, performing procedures and managing emergencies, acting as a patient and family advocate in order to monitor and maintain patient rights.
• Uses therapeutic communication, which includes active listening and teaching, to establish a relationship with patients, families, and interprofessional health care team to collaborate on a plan of care.
• Contributes to teamwork by awareness of overall unit acuity, consistently offering assistance, and responding positively to requests for assistance.
• Collaborates to foster healthy relationships in the work environment.
• Seeks guidance from and offers guidance to interprofessional healthcare team.
• Advocates on the patient and/or family behalf to identify and resolve clinical and ethical concerns, utilizing appropriate resources.
• Provides and modifies care to complex patients and coordinates care with the interprofessional team based on evaluation of the patient’s condition, supported by accurate documentation.
• Improves quality and safety through peer-to-peer accountability, reporting near misses, and collaborating with the interprofessional healthcare team.
• Able to set up and troubleshoot Operating Room equipment including but not limited to: electrocautery, bipolar devices, suctions, drills, video equipment, lasers, microscopes, headlights, surgical lights, OR tables, and Robotic.
• Able to use patient positioning devices in a variety of required ways using a full range of positioning devices inclusive of but not limited to: yellow fin stirrups, candy cane stirrups, Jackson Frames, peg boards, bean bags, kidney rests, and fracture tables.
• Assists anesthesia personnel as needed throughout the procedure but especially during induction and emergence.
• Able to tolerate high and low temperature ranges set to accommodate desired patient outcomes.
• Able to tolerate physically demanding tasks of moving equipment and patients utilizing safety measures for you, coworkers, and /or patients.
• Able to properly label and process specimens collected from the field.
• Able to safely scrub, gown and glove, maintain the sterile field, and hold retractors or heart as needed.
• Displays self-motivation to independently manage time effectively, timely document care, minimize incidental overtime and prioritize daily tasks.
• Provides input into the unit resource utilization including unit capital and operational budget needs.
• Manages the overall nursing care in the operating room to help maintain a safe and comfortable environment.
• Anticipate needs of sterile team and anesthesiologist and respond quickly and efficiently as needs arise.
• Remain attentive to the progress of the surgical procedure and needs of individual team members by watching and…