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Ashley Regional Medical Center

This position is responsible for providing direct care by assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care of patients in the Operating Room.

• Prepares patient care area adequately and ensures availability of necessary equipment and supplies.
• Reviews and carries out physician orders timely and according to policy.
• Exhibits proper technique for insertion, maintenance, and removal of IV catheters and saline locks.
• Checks dressings and/or operative site and reports abnormalities to the surgeon.
• Prepares and administers medications in accordance with current practice.
• Demonstrates thorough understanding of medications utilized intra and postoperatively and recognizes the need for use of reversal drugs, when necessary.
• Assures that the patient meets all discharge criteria.
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor.
• Communicates, collaborates, and coordinates with team members to provide quality patient care and to ensure positive patient outcomes pre‑operatively, intra‑operatively, and post‑operatively.
• Ensures Infection Control standards are maintained at all times.
• Attends all meetings and huddles.
• Addresses staff, physician, patient, and family concerns immediately and makes director aware.

Making Communities Healthier

We want to create places that:

• People choose to come for Healthcare
• Physicians want to practice
• Employees want to work

Exhibits a positive attitude by:

• Treats everyone with the dignity that they deserve
• Welcomes customers in a friendly manner
• Apologizes for problems and inconveniences
• Avoids the sharing of personal problems and frustrations with others
• Finds out the immediate needs of the customer and asks if there is anything else you can do

Exhibits good communication skills when:

• Answering the telephone
• Providing information
• Smiling, making appropriate eye contact, and giving undivided attention to customers
• Introducing yourself when meeting a patient or customer for the first time
• Offering assistance to patients and visitors
• Calling patients by name
• Communicating in a polite manner using “please” and “thank you”

• Dress is professional, clean, and in good taste
• Wearing identification badge appropriately at all times
• Dress is in accordance with hospital and department dress code

• Knocks before entering a patient’s room
• Provides proper fitting gowns and modestly covers patients
• Closes curtains, doors, or window blinds during examinations, procedures, consultations
• Allows a patient privacy if you are not directly involved in care being rendered
• Follows HIPAA regulations
• Shares protected health information and confidential information on a need‑to‑know basis only

• Respects the customer’s time by acknowledging patients immediately when they come into your area
• Explains the reasons for any delays and keeps the customer apprised of the situation
• Trains patients on the operation of their bed, television, controls, and telephone
• Answers patient call lights promptly with care, courtesy, and respect

• Conducts yourself professionally
• Responds in a timely, accurate manner to assignments and requests
• Maintains fiscal responsibility by utilizing resources wisely, taking care of equipment, and preventing lost charges
• Solves problems, meets needs, and determines what can you do to make a positive difference
• Adapts to changes in a positive, professional manner
• Attends staff meetings and completes all mandatory training on time
• Does not incur unapproved overtime, arrives on time and leaves on time, and has few unscheduled absences

• Not spreads gossip or talks about other team members
• Addresses conflicts quickly and appropriately
• Holds no grudge or acts out against other employees
• Works interdepartmentally through communication, cooperation, understanding and trust

• Acts with integrity by completing an honest hour of work for each hour of pay
• Refrains from criticizing others
• Upholds the standards of our Code of Conduct
• Does your part to make this a great hospital

• Must be a licensed RN in the State of Utah
• Current BLS, ACLS, and PALS certification required; NRP certification preferred
• At least 2 years of nursing and 1 year of circulating experience preferred