Operating Room Registered Nurse; OR RN

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Full Time Professional San Antonio, TX, US 1 Attachments

12 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $42.72 To $46.61 Hourly

Title: Operating Room Registered Nurse (OR RN)

Position Type:Part time (16-29 hours/week),Full time (30-40+ hours/week),

FLSA Status:Non-exempt

Education Level:ASN/BSN is required, RN License is required

Job Category:Health Care

Our Company Promise:

We are committed to providing our Employees a stable work environment with equal opportunity for learning and personal growth. Vighter’s Mission is to provide efficient, fast, high quality healthcare staffing to our clients. Our Culture’s 5 key elements are crucial to the effectiveness of our employees in accomplishing our mission. These elements are:

• Integrity
• Personability
• Transparency

Creating and cultivating this Culture within the organization is our commitment to our employees. Above all, Vighter employees will be provided the same concern, respect, and caring attitude that they are expected to share externally with every Vighter Client and Customer.

Summary:

Vighter is recruiting Operating Room Registered Nurses (OR RNs) to provide exceptional patient care in the various operating rooms at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, TX. The RN provides the full range of nursing services within the scope of practice for a variety of patient-centered specialties and ensures that all JCO standards for care are met during performance of patient care.

RNs provide complex and comprehensive professional nursing services within the professional scope of practice for a variety of diagnoses for patients of all ages.

Vighter is a Service Disabled, Veteran Owned Small Business that is accredited by both the Joint Commission and ISO-9001. With our dedication to continuous process improvement, Vighter assists in the provision of the highest standards of care.

Principle Accountabilities:

• Provide complex and comprehensive nursing care for all surgical patients.
• Prepare the operating room and verify necessary supplies, equipment, and instruments.
• Perform preoperative assessments and verify patient identity, procedure, consent, allergies, and surgical site.
• Provide and maintain a safe, sterile environment during surgery.
• Serve as a scrub nurse when assigned, maintaining the sterile field and handling surgical instruments.
• Assist with patient positioning and prevent pressure injuries.
• Perform surgical counts of instruments, sponges, needles, and other supplies.
• Administer medications and treatments according to orders and facility policies.
• Monitor the patient's condition and respond to changes or emergencies.
• Collaborate with surgeons, anesthesia providers, surgical technologists, and other healthcare professionals.
• Assist with specimen collection, labeling, and proper handling.
• Participate in surgical safety/time-out procedures.
• Provide postoperative handoff and communicate patient information to the recovery team.
• Follow infection-control, sterile-technique, OSHA, and patient-safety standards. Operate and monitor specialized equipment including, but not limited to portable dialysis machines, oxygen, hypothermia units, and various types of suction apparatus, infusion equipment, and patient-controlled analgesia pumps (PCA), epidural pumps, sequential compression devices, hemodynamic catheters, monitors, and ventilators, cardio-respiratory monitors and vital sign monitors.
• Collaborate with healthcare providers to ensure a multidisciplinary approach to patient care.
• Maintain highest regard for patient dignity, observe precepts of the AHA's Patient’s Bill of Rights.
• Services shall be provided by established standards, principles and professional ethics, applicable professional specialty organizations and the high standard for which Vighter is recognized.
• All Health Care Providers will document care delivered and follow-up care required.
• Attends and participates in a variety of meetings and task force groups to improve quality and outcomes, communicate issues, obtain approvals, resolve…