Registered Nurse

Busy ambulatory surgery center seeking full time Registered Nurse - Operating Room. Operating rooms run 7:30am-3:30pm - no nights, weekends or call! This is an SCA Health facility, part of a large network of ASCs with great benefits.

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• One year of OR and/or medical / surgical nursing experience preferred.
• Current state nursing licensure to practice in good standings.
• Successful completion of Basic Life Support (BLS) or Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) within 90 of employment or documentation of current BLS/BCLS certification.
• Specialty certification in Perioperative Nursing is preferred. Ability to scrub & circulate preferred.

• Assess patient status throughout the perioperative episode of care.
• Develop an individualized perioperative patient plan of care by implementing:
• Protecting the patient from injury caused by extraneous objects and chemical, electrical, laser, mechanical, and thermal sources.
• Demonstrating safe operation of equipment and machinery and following procedures for reporting and correcting an unsafe situation.
• Handling specimens according to facility policy and procedures.
• Adhering to standard precautions including the use of personal protective equipment.
• Communicating the patient’s current status to relevant parties throughout the continuum of care.
• Administering medications safely and correctly using the 8 rights of medication administration.
• Performing interventions to maintain the patient’s wound and tissue perfusion 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.
• Providing nursing and appropriate monitoring in accordance with policies and procedures.
• 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.
• Complying with Universal Protocol and facility site validation and time-out policy.