OR Registered Nurse (51758

Job Details

Job Location:

Cosmetic Laser Dermatology - San Diego, CA 92121

Position Type:
Full Time

Salary Range: $55.00 - $57.00 Hourly

Platinum Dermatology Partner sis a network of high-quality dermatology clinics that focus on collaborative and innovative ideas to drive growth. We offer general dermatology, cosmetic, medical, plastic surgery, and cancer screening treatments. We have over 145 clinics, over 350 providers, and more than 2300 employees in clinics across Texas, Arizona, California, Nevada, and Florida. We are a rapidly growing company that allows our doctors to focus on providing exceptional care without worrying about the operational side of the business.

Our core values focus on collaboration, ownership, respect, excellence, authenticity, and integrity. Our purpose is to empower the practice of exceptional dermatology.

• Perform quality work within deadlines with or without direct supervision.
• Interact professionally with other employees, customers, and suppliers.
• Work effectively as a team contributor on all assignments.
• Work independently while understanding the necessity for communicating and coordinating work efforts with other employees and organizations.

This individual is responsible for treating and educating patients and providing support and care to patients and their family members throughout their surgical procedure. As a preop educator, this individual will record patients' medical histories and symptoms, and participate in the patient's assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation in preparation for surgical procedures. This position is also responsible for teaching patients and their families how to manage their post-treatment home care needs.

As an RN in the operating room, this individual will provide nursing care to the patient throughout the procedure. Responsibilities include preoperative care, intraoperative monitoring, administering treatment and medications, operating medical equipment, circulating and assisting the surgical team, and recovering the patient after the procedure. All duties are performed to maintain the patient's physiological processes in a safe, comfortable, and effective environment.

• Interviews patient/family for pertinent health information and verifies and prepares patient for the planned procedure.
• Collects health history, orders all required lab work, and preop medications, ensures necessary paperwork is present, and organizes and prepares charts and consents before procedure.
• Completes necessary preoperative teaching to patient and family.
• Responsible for making sure due payments are collected at the end of the preop appointment.

• Preparing surgical suite.
• Preparing equipment for surgical cases.
• Starting IV and giving IV sedation.
• Monitoring patient during surgery (EKG, BP, HR, RR SPO2)
• Circulate or scrub and assist the surgeon.

• Recovery of patient.
• Postop teaching of patient and family.
• Discharge of patient from Recovery Room.
• Dressing changes.
• Suture removal.
• Assist MD as needed.

• Maintain supply room.
• Maintenance of surgical equipment.
• Sterilizing supplies.
• Inventory and restocking OR, RR, exam rooms, crash cart, and anesthesia cart.
• Maintain logbooks.
• Demonstrate flexibility in workload and hours as schedule demands.

• Assess the physical status of the patient through personal observation and interaction.
• Assess the individual psychosocial and spiritual needs of the patient and significant other.
• Demonstrate understanding and interpretation of diagnostic tests, i.e., lab work, chest x-ray, EKG, etc.
• Obtain an overview of the patient's status by reviewing the patient's chart.

• Plans for a safe, efficient, effective, and clean environment for preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative care.
• Identifies problems and plans action to resolve problems.
• Identify goals for the patient's care and communicate these goals to others involved in the patient's care.
• Assures patient has necessary lab work, EKG, chest x-ray, consent, treatment, and instructions preoperatively.
• Assures the patient has appropriate discharge instructions postoperatively and is accompanied by a responsible adult upon discharge.

• Takes action to implement nursing care and resolve the problems identified for the individual patient.
• Utilizes supplies, equipment, and resources to contain costs without compromising patient care.
• Reduces chances of nosocomial infection by directing attention to infection control and environmental safety practices.
• Reports and documents information accurately and promptly.
• Utilizes professional nursing judgment in the delivery of patient care.
• Uses safe methods of handling equipment.

• Evaluate action taken to implement a nursing care plan and resolve problems accordingly.
• Modifies intervention to achieve goals if previous intervention is not effective.
• Evaluate your nursing practice and…