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Location: Lebanon

Join our Remarkable Team!

Location - Lebanon, KY

Schedule - Part Time Days

Your experience matters Spring View Hospital is part of Lifepoint Health, a diversified healthcare delivery network with facilities coast to coast. We are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well-being so you can provide exceptional care to others. As a Registered Nurse (RN) joining our team, you're embracing a vital mission dedicated to making communities healthier . Join us on this meaningful journey where your skills, compassion and dedication will make a remarkable difference in the lives of those we serve.

More about our team

The Surgery Unit at Spring View Hospital embodies a culture of teamwork and effective communication. This is a 10-bed unit that ensures patients receive optimal medical attention and support (4 in OR and 6 in Recovery).

How you'll contribute

Responsible for the delivery of safe, effective, and quality patient-family centered care in the OR and other areas of perioperative services for all patient populations.

* Promote the mission, vision, and values of the organization.

* Assess patients at intervals as stated in policies and procedures.

* Develop an individualized perioperative patient plan of care.

Implement the plan of care by

* protecting the patient from injury caused by extraneous objects and chemical, electrical, laser, mechanical, and thermal sources;

* performing accounting procedures to protect the patient from unintended retained surgical items;

* performing interventions necessary to ensure that the patient's procedure is performed on the correct site, side, and level;

* managing the patient's specimens according to organizational policy and procedures;

* communicating the patient's current status to relevant parties throughout the continuum of care;

* administering medications safely and correctly;

* performing interventions to maintain the patient's wound and tissue perfusion at or above baseline levels;

* performing interventions to maintain the status of the patient's genitourinary, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, endocrine, respiratory, cardiovascular, and neurological systems and fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balances at or above baseline levels;

* performing interventions to ensure the patient is at or returned to normothermia at the conclusion of the immediate postoperative period;

* performing interventions to protect the patient from surgical site infection;

* assessing the knowledge level of the patient or designated support person;

* providing education regarding the expected psychosocial response, nutritional management, medication management, pain management, wound management, and expected responses to the operative or invasive procedure;

* involving the patient or designated support person actively in decisions affecting his or her perioperative plan of care and the rehabilitation process;

* protecting the patient's rights, dignity, and privacy;

* providing age-specific, culturally competent, ethical care within legal standards of practice; and

* providing consistent and comparable care regardless of the setting.

* Evaluate the patient's progress toward attaining outcomes.

* Transfer care as applicable.

* Delegate tasks according to the state Nurse Practice Act and job descriptions.

* Document nursing care accurately, completely, and legibly.

* Collaborate effectively with other disciplines as applicable.

* Participate in quality review and performance improvement projects.

* Participate in the performance appraisal process.

* Use problem-solving and conflict resolution skills to foster effective work relationships with team members.

* Maintain required competencies.

* Pursue professional growth and participates in a professional organization.

* Act as a patient advocate and maintain privacy and confidentiality of individuals and health information.

* Rotated Call back required for position. Must have arrival time to facility within 30 minutes(or less) of receiving call.

What we're looking for

* Graduate from an accredited school of nursing

* Current registered nurse licensure in state of employment

* Basic Life Support (BLS)

* Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification or…