Perioperative Registered Nurse; Per Diem

Description

Position Title: Perioperative Registered Nurse

Reports to: Director of Nursing or Designee

Collaborates with the Operating Room (OR) and preoperative (Pre-op) and post anesthesia care unit (PACU) teams in the organization and daily functioning of perioperative, operative, and PACU areas under established Federal, State, and accreditation standards and Center policies and procedures. The perioperative registered nurse (RN) oversees the safe, effective, and efficient care of patients in all perioperative areas by evaluating, assessing, and preparing patients before and after surgery, and while in the operating room, and facilitates the functionality of the preoperative, operative, and recovery environments.

Perioperative nurses ensure appropriate and timely patient flow and patient care activities and maintain a high standard of safety.

• Provide patients with care in procedure, operating, preoperative and recovery rooms
• Develop and implement care plans for surgical patients.
• Provides patients with safe, therapeutic and quality medical care by utilizing the nursing process and diagnosis in a timely manner, setting appropriate priorities.
• Evaluate surgical patients prior to surgery and in postoperative phases.
• Recognize and respond appropriately to patient condition decline and crisis situations during the perioperative phase, seeking assistance as needed to ensure patient safety and quality of care.
• Observes all safety precautions and complies with all health and safety rules, policies, and procedures of the facility.
• Apply aseptic and sterile techniques to all surgical interventions, medical instruments and equipment before, during, and after surgery
• Adheres to infection prevention practices, guidelines, and policies
• Maintains and updates patient health record with all care provided.
• Prepare patients for surgery by conducting preop assessment and verification of history and physical, orders, consent, and reviewing all relevant paperwork such as labs, medications and ekgs prior to surgery, communicating abnormal findings to surgeon or anesthesia as appropriate.
• Positions patient on operating table, assists with intubation and extubation at end of procedure, disinfects operative site, passes sterile items to surgical field and ensures sterility is maintained throughout the procedure.
• May supervise 23-hour service.
• Communicate with patients and other healthcare professionals to ensure continuity of pre and postoperative care.
• Maintains efficient functioning of equipment in assigned area.
• Maintains a collegial relationship with physicians and staff throughout the perioperative arena to ensure continuity and quality of patient care.
• Prepare patients for surgery by shaving and disinfecting skin as appropriate prior to the operation as needed.
• Recover patients when required, and/or assist in recovery of patients when needed.
• Other duties as assigned or delegated.

• Respect and Kindness:
  Polite, upbeat, and seek to understand.
• Collaborative:
  Fully engaged team player
• Excellence:
  Do your best work and pursue positive solutions
• Honesty and Integrity:
  Straight forward, open to feedback, and do the right thing.
• Caring and Compassion:
  Patient-centered care

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This position is regularly required to stand, walk briskly, talk, and hear. Position requires occasional sitting, stooping, kneeling, or crouching. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Auditory abilities required by this job include ability to correctly distinguish various body sounds, i.e. respirations, heart sounds, bowel sounds and to discern sounds made by various types of machinery or equipment which would indicate dangerous or improper operation.

• In-depth knowledge of surgical procedures and care of the perioperative patient.
• Highly skilled at monitoring and assessing patients prior to surgery and in the recovery areas.
• Ability to recognize…