Perm Placement: CVOR RN OOJ

Job Description

As a Cardiovascular Operating Room (CVOR) Registered Nurse (RN) in a permanent placement, you will be a vital member of the cardiovascular surgical team, providing direct patient care during cardiac surgeries, ensuring safety, and collaborating with other healthcare professionals.

A Cardiovascular Operating Room (CVOR) Registered Nurse is the nurse advocate for patients undergoing cardiac surgery. Responsibilities include assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, evaluation, documentation, and time management.

• Assists in positioning, responding to comfort and safety of patient during all phases of surgery.
• Provides accurate care and handling of specimens.
• Observes and enforces strict standards of asepsis.
• Demonstrates ongoing competency in the use of surgical equipment, including surgical beds, electrocautery generators, suction devices, video equipment, point‑of‑care testing, positioning devices, and other specialized equipment.
• Observes, checks, and monitors all pieces of equipment used during surgery to confirm they are running smoothly.
• Completes patient documentation in the electronic medical record.
• Inventories all countable items both pre‑ and post‑surgery to ensure none remain in the patient post‑operatively.
• Maintains the integrity of the sterile field; selects and handles instruments and supplies used for the operation, passing them to surgeon and assistant as needed.

The CVOR RN will be expected to float into non‑cardiac specialties when not functioning in cardiac cases.

A Registered Nurse III (RN III) is responsible for the care of the population they are assigned. An RN III must complete yearly mandatory competencies, unit‑specific competencies identified by the Director/Designee, and the Professional Practice Ladder requirements, including assuming leadership as Charge Nurse, leading PI activities and department initiatives, communicating and sharing information with the Director/Designee and co‑workers from unit or hospital committees, and facilitating paid education, seminars, conferences, workshops or nursing articles.

A portfolio is current and submitted to the Director/Designee annually by March 1st.

Must be on a committee and provide validation of participation.

Routinely solicits and validates patient/family satisfaction, participates in peer review for the unit and develops a bulletin board or poster that provides educational information to staff, patients and family members.

• Light to heavy physical demand (20 to 100 lbs).
• Frequent hand washing required.
• Occasional sitting.
• Frequent standing, walking, bending, squatting, crouching, kneeling, lifting, pulling, pushing, carrying, holding, stretching, reaching, climbing.
• Frequent repetitive arm, hand and finger movements.
• Frequent use of surgical and medical equipment and materials.
• Visual ability to see details at a distance (corrected to 20/40) and at a close range, to match or detect differences between colors, shades, brightness and to judge distance between objects.
• Able to speak clearly so that it is understandable to a listener.
• Able to identify and understand the speech of another person.
• Able to focus on a single source of auditory information in the presence of other distracting sounds and to detect differences between sounds that vary over broad ranges of pitch and loudness.
• High level of cognitive functioning required for nursing, observation, evaluation, assessment, communication, interpersonal, organizational, problem‑solving and decision‑making.
• May be exposed to fluctuating temperatures.

• Education: Bachelor’s Nursing (BSN) required;
  Master’s Nursing (MSN) preferred.
• Experience: Minimum 5616 hours of RN experience.
• Certification & Licensures: RN License required; BLS Certification (Basic Life Support) – American Heart ‘Healthcare Provider’ (HCP) – AHA approved;
  Relevant Specialty Certification preferred.
• Additional Certification/Licensure Requirements: Must be licensed or eligible to practice pending licensure as a Registered Nurse in Virginia with either a multi‑state license under the Nurse Licensure Compact or a single‑state license. New hires must have American Heart Association (AHA) appropriate certification prior to orientation.
• Additional Qualifications: Meets all requirements of an RN II;
  Competent to provide care based on the cognitive, physical, emotional and chronological stages of human growth and development;
  Competent to use the nursing process;
  Must have reliable phone communication with the hospital.
• Criminal Background Checks – VA State Police; 3rd Party Background Check.

Great benefits. Relocation offered.

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