RN Operating Room - Tempe

Primary City/State:
Tempe Medical Center—1500 S Mill Ave, Tempe, AZ 85281

Category:
Skilled Nursing, Shift: Day, Department: OR Operating Room‑Main. Bonus available.

REQUIRED:

2 years experience in the OR

The RN’s practice is guided by the ANA Standard for Professional Nurse and Code of Ethics. The RN has knowledge of professional nursing principles, practices, concepts, and procedures as applied to the care of the patient population served. The RN records patients’ medical history and symptoms, helps perform diagnostic tests and analyzes results, operates medical equipment, administers treatment and medications, and helps with patient follow‑up and rehabilitation.

The RN establishes a care plan or contributes to an existing plan. The plan may include activities such as administering medication, careful checking of dosages and avoiding interactions; starting, maintaining and discontinuing intravenous (IV) lines for fluid, medication, blood and blood products; administering therapies and treatments; observing the patient and recording those observations; and consulting with physicians and other healthcare clinicians.

The RN teaches patients and their families how to manage their illnesses or injuries, explains post‑treatment and home‑care needs, diet, nutrition and exercise programs, and self‑administration of medication and therapy. The RN provides direction to licensed practical nurses and nursing aides regarding patient care and delegates when appropriate. The RN supports efforts to advance clinical knowledge and skills. The RN precepts new hire staff and students, assists the staff and students to seek and complete the tasks required to complete their competency skills, and continually enhances their knowledge in nursing management and care of patient problems and conditions as required.

The RN may continue to improve the patient’s experience, clinical outcomes and works to promote a healthy work environment. Nursing practices are theory‑based, evidence‑based, utilizing a Shared Governance model for decision‑making.

• Stroke symptoms and warning signs
• Protocols and pathways used to identify, evaluate and manage stroke patients
• NIHSS
• Stroke Alert activation and protocol
• Stroke quality indicators
• Available stroke patient education materials and community resources
• Educational requirements
• Stroke Center website resources

Possess the knowledge of how to collect health data in a systematic and ongoing manner, prioritizing data collection as determined by the patient’s immediate condition or needs and involving the family. Analyze the assessment data in determining diagnoses, and utilize the nursing diagnosis to develop, implement, evaluate and revise an appropriate patient plan of care that is family centered, developmentally and age‑appropriate, and culturally relevant.

Identify expected outcomes individualized to the patient and their specific health problems. Develop plans of care that are individualized to the patient’s condition or needs, reflecting current nursing practice that is evidence‑based, providing for continuity of care, and are family centered. Implement interventions in the plan of care. Initiate treatments, medications, emergency and resuscitative measures based on appropriate utilization of standing orders, policies and procedures.

Provide nursing care to meet the physical, emotional, spiritual, and social‑cultural needs of the patient and family utilizing a family‑centered approach to care delivery. Evaluate the patient’s progress toward attainment of outcomes. Document observations, nursing interventions, therapeutic measures, multi‑systems monitoring data, and other data relevant to the patient’s care in a retrievable form. Provide ongoing evaluation of the quality and effectiveness of the care plan to ensure that they maintain and enhance patient outcomes that promote the delivery of cost‑effective high‑quality healthcare.

Evaluate one’s own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and relevant statutes and regulations of the…