Registered Nurse - Pre-Op​/PACU - PRN

About UCH

As the only independent and physician‑led faculty practice plan of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, University Clinical Health (UCH) offers best‑in‑class clinical care through a network of more than 175 providers across 19 specialties. UCH is a not‑for‑profit, non‑tax‑supported group practice dedicated to serving the Mid‑South community while providing medical excellence to our patients.

The Preoperative Registered Nurse is responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and coordinating patient care from admission to discharge. The primary goal is to achieve patient outcomes through the implementation of critical pathways and in accordance with the mission, vision and values of the facility.

• Skills and Abilities
• Ability to correlate clinical data with the patient’s medical and nursing care.
• Ability to set priorities.
• Ability to provide direction to others that is clear, concise and promotes efficiency throughout the clinical areas of the facility.
• Ability to communicate well with patients, families, teammates, physicians, other members of the healthcare team, etc.
• Recognizes legal and policy limits of individual practice.
• Clinical Quality
• Assesses, plans, evaluates and ensures the implementation of patient care to achieve identified outcomes and delivers safe patient care according to facility policy and procedure.
• Assesses patient status on admission and on an ongoing basis.
• Implements appropriate standards of care based on assessment data and patient’s own goals, which are mutually set with the patient and family.
• Coordinates nursing interventions to enhance achievement of expected outcomes and to ensure readiness for discharge.
• Ensures provision of patient care daily in an organized and timely manner.
• Adheres to all facility policies and procedures when providing patient care.
• Utilizes nursing care standards when planning and implementing patient care.
• Demonstrates ability to direct and provide for patient care in emergency situations.
• Assesses learning needs according to patient’s level of understanding and readiness to learn.
• Evaluates patient’s progress toward outcome achievement on an ongoing basis.
• Revises plan of care based on change in patient status and/or information gathered at change of shift.
• Documents patient’s progress toward achievement of outcomes.
• Directs others in the implementation of the teaching plan.
• Assumes an active role in the provision of quality nursing care for patients receiving care.
• Utilizes specialized nursing knowledge, nursing process and discriminative judgment while giving direct or indirect care.
• Analyzes nursing care provided in the facility related to the established standards of care.
• Participates in the monitoring and evaluation of nursing care provided.
• Demonstrates ability to coordinate the nursing care provided in the facility.
• Assigns patient care responsibilities based on patient needs and abilities of available staff.
• Assumes charge nurse responsibility as assigned.
• Demonstrates ability to make decisions concerning facility‑based problems.
• Participates on quality council to facilitate improvement of patient care.
• Participates in the orientation of nursing staff.
• Participates in developing standardized patient education programs, as requested.
• Participates in team conferences on assigned patients.
• Demonstrates continued competence in assessing, treating, and caring for individuals based upon age‑specific needs utilizing a developmental perspective.
• Demonstrates appropriate knowledge and competence of designated skills identified for position.
• Displays an understanding of each patient’s cognitive, physical, emotional, and chronological maturity in the assessments, treatment, and care undertaken based on age‑specific criteria.
• Appropriately modifies approach to the patient based upon patient age utilizing a developmental perspective.
• Provides appropriate age‑specific interventions related to safety issues.
• Demonstrates appropriate knowledge and competence of designated skills identified for position in preoperative patient care duties.
• Checks updated schedule each morning and prepares supplies and equipment.
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