Registered Nurse - Operating Room - HPW Evening

Registered Nurse – Operating Room – HPW – FT – Evening

Pay Range
: $43.90 – $65.86

Scheduled Weekly Hours
: 36

• Delivers quality care to patients through a team effort in working with others through the nursing process of assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation.
• Assures patient safety by executing appropriate policies & procedures.
• Provides appropriate support for pain management, pharmacological and non-pharmacological measures; assists patient/family in identifying individualized comfort measures.
• Follows up on internal resources to determine the outcome of interventions completed by other departments.
• Mobilizes resources in complex cases to maximize patients' control and participation over their own recovery.
• Provides information and interpretation of the patient's condition and offers coping mechanisms; provides these to both patient and family.
• Assesses how much information a patient wants and needs while utilizing a vocabulary and approach that enables the patient to successfully process the care and course of treatment.
• Formulates and documents a discharge plan that maximizes the patient's ability to continue with meaningful life activities.
• Integrates assessment and diagnostic information with intuition to foresee potential age‑specific healthcare needs; anticipates patients' needs.
• Ensures handoff communication and includes a report in terms of the situations most likely to develop and the problems awaiting patient.
• Identifies proactively issues to be resolved related to patient education for medication management; provides discharge planning which includes instructions on discharge medications.
• Uses discretionary judgment to appropriately modify patient care regimens; facilitates appropriate response from other health care team members to provide quality and safe care.
• Explores multiple aspects of care regimen with case manager and health care providers to promote appropriate resolution.
• Displays ability to see the entire unit and is self‑motivated to develop a plan for adjusting staffing patterns as needed; attends educational sessions when offered in areas that will improve one's ability to assess the needs on one's respective department. These would include, but are not limited to: charge nurse workshops, leadership training, critical decision making, prioritization of workload, etc.
• Plans and provides unique and individualized comfort measures while utilizing intuitive and innovative approaches which are scientifically sound and are a result of evidence‑based practice.
• Participates in unit‑based and/or hospital‑based committees.
• Participates in performance improvement activities at the unit and/or hospital-wide level.
• Participates actively in the preparation of Joint Commission readiness.
• Participates in unit level effort to achieve successful Patient Satisfaction scores and has an awareness of the HCAAPS measurements.
• Performs any other related duties as required or assigned.

• Education:
  
  Associate's degree or graduate from an accredited school of nursing.
• Experience:
  
  Must have 1 year of Operating Room/OR Nurse experience.
• Other Credentials: AHA BLS – Healthcare Provider, Registered Nurse – NJ.
• Requires TNCC (or must obtain within 1 year of hire) AND 8 hours of Trauma‑related Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) contact hours if assigned to: RMC ICU/CCU, RMC Surgical Trauma Unit, RMC PACU, Emergency Department (all campuses).
• Requires NIH Stroke Scale Certification (or must obtain by end of orientation) AND 8 hours of Stroke‑related Continuing Nursing Education (CNE) contact hours if assigned to:
  Critical Care, Emergency Department, Neuro Units, Cardiology Inpatient at Hopewell, Peds/Peds ED.
• CPR Requirements:
  Requires ACLS (or must obtain within 6 months of hire date) if assigned to:
  Critical Care/Intermediate/Telemetry, Emergency Rooms, Pediatrics/Pediatrics Emergency Room, Labor & Delivery, Surgical Services (not to include Perioperative), Interventional Procedures, Observation.
• Requires NRP (or must obtain within 6 months of hire date) if assigned to:
  Maternity Services, Emergency Room RMC/Deborah.
• Requires PALS (or must obtain within 6 months of…