RN CVOR

Job Summary

The cardiovascular operating room nurse (CVOR RN) coordinates and performs all aspects of patient care during cardiovascular, cardiothoracic, or vascular surgical procedures and other areas of the OR as needed to include pre‑op preparation and patient transport. The CVOR RN works to ensure the operating room environment is safe and consults with health care team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care.

The CVOR RN may function as a scrub nurse or as a circulating nurse.

Utilizes the nursing process to promote and restore patient’s health status; collaborates with physicians and multidisciplinary team members; provides physical and psychological support to patients, family members and significant others; and supervises assigned team members. Uses a systematic critical‑thinking approach to guide data gathering, assessment, nursing judgement, intervention and evaluation of human responses to actual and potential health problems through activities such as health teaching and the provision of care, supportive and restorative care and/or support of a peaceful death.

All responsibilities are carried out in accordance with the mission, vision, strategic imperatives and standards of Lexington Medical Center, American Nurses Association Standards and in accordance with the provisions/statutes set forth by the South Carolina Nurse Practice Act.

• Minimum Education: ADN, Diploma or Bachelors of Science in Nursing
• New graduate RN’s who acquire their generic RN education through an on‑line program will not meet LMC minimum qualifications
• Minimum Years of
  
  Experience:
  
  None
• Substitutable Education & Experience (Optional): None
• Required Certifications/Licensure: Current RN license to practice in the State of South Carolina;
• Required Training: A nurse with no prior CVOR experience must demonstrate competency and be capable of taking call independently as a CVOR staff nurse in this specialty within six months.

• Patient Care and Support
  • Establishes positive rapport with patient and family.
  • Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.
  • Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals; provides education to patient, and family in a manner they can understand their condition, medications, and self‑care skills, etc. and provides them ample opportunity to ask questions.
  • Serves as patient/family advocate.
  • Maintains continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.
  • Uses a systematic critical‑thinking approach to guide data gathering, assessment, nursing judgement, intervention and evaluation of human responses to actual and potential health problems.
  • Identifies, synthesizes and interprets sources of data using reasonable clinical judgement to respond to dynamic situations in a timely and effective manner.
  • Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.
  • Uses ethical decision making processes and advocates for acceptable patient outcomes.
• Clinical Work Quality
  • Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments; following hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations.
  • Resolves patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.
  • Participates in process/performance improvement activities and initiatives utilizing evidence‑based practice to maintain and/or improve quality of care and safe patient…