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Overview

Job Title: Registered Nurse - OR PRN

Essential Functions: The delivery of patient care through the framework of the nursing process (assessment, diagnosis, and patient outcome) in the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative phase of the surgical patient.

• Deliver nursing care using the nursing process (assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, evaluation).
• Assess physiological and psychosocial health status of the patient; assess pain per policy; complete patient history; document information legibly and sign records with professional title.
• Verbally report pertinent information to appropriate staff to provide continuity of care.
• Assess understanding and expectations of care; identify desired patient outcomes; establish nursing diagnoses; establish patient/family goals that are mutually acceptable; formulate and implement Plan of Care; adjust care plan based on patient/family data.
• Demonstrate accountability, safe judgment, and the ability to problem-solve; respond to emergencies; practice within legal and ethical guidelines (Nurse Practice Act, legal statutes, ANA standards, code for Nurses, PRMC Policy and Procedures).
• Demonstrate proper preoperative process – communication and reporting; proper procedure and documentation for surgical case counting; aseptic technique; efficient turnover time; proper technique for obtaining blood products.
• Demonstrate proper patient identification verification and surgical site identification and marking per policy; anticipate surgeon’s needs during surgical procedure; participate in a professional Nursing Organization.

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Current Registered Nurse License.
• Current American Heart Association BLS and ACLS certifications.

• Standing: 66-100%
• Sitting: 0-33%
• Walking: 66-100%
• Lifting: 0-50 lbs as needed
• Carrying: 0-25 lbs as needed
• Pushing: 0-400 lbs on wheels with assistance as needed
• Climbing: 1-5 flights of stairs as necessary
• Pulling:
  As necessary while providing patient care
• Bending:
  Necessary to pick items off the floor
• Squatting:
  As necessary while providing care
• Rotating:
  Shoulders as necessary
• Kneeling:
  If necessary while providing patient care
• Reaching:
  Overhead while providing patient care
• General:
  Visual and hearing senses must be adequate to provide patient care.

• Inside 95-100%
• Outside 0-5%
• Temperature 30F-115F
• Fumes:
  Occasional
• Dust:
  Occasional
• Gases:
  None
• Odors:
  Occasional
• Mist:
  Occasional
• Radiation:
  Occasional
• Noise or Vibrations:
  Biomedical equipment, needles, sharps, copy machine, phones, latex, disinfectants, etc.
• Hazards:
  Occasional contact with communicable disease, electrical equipment, etc.
• Personal Protective Equipment:
  Provided (gowns, gloves, masks, head cover).