OverviewAnsible Government Solutions, LLC (Ansible) is currently recruiting (5) Operating Room Registered Nurses (RN) to support the VA Palo Alto Health Care System located at 3801 Miranda Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304. Multiple shift schedules are available. If you accept employment with Ansible, you must also acknowledge that any assigned schedule is subject to change at the direction of either Ansible or its customers. Full-Time Local, Travel, and PRN assignments available.
Essential skills to this position are scrubbing and circulating surgical procedures independently, flexibility, organizational skills, and the ability to utilize an interdisciplinary approach in the provision of nursing care.
ResponsibilitiesThe services of Operating Room Registered Nurses shall be provided in accordance with the policies of the VA healthcare system where assigned. The Operating Room RNs provide the following services:
- Functions as an integral member of the surgical team.
- Interfacing with patients, surgeons, and anesthesia staff in the surgical setting.
- Implement the pre-operative plan of care demonstrating knowledge of the responsibilities of the RN pre-operatively, intra-operatively and post-operatively.
- Scrubs and circulates surgical procedures independently.
- Works in partnership with the health care team in implementing standards of care during the operative and immediate post-operative phase in accordance with the purpose, philosophy, and objectives of nursing, while being a positive team player.
- Supervise care given and services rendered in the OR by other professional and non-professional staff.
- Responsible for maintenance, care and use of equipment used, applying principles of asepsis, therapeutic and technical knowledge to ensure a safe environment for patients and staff.
- Assists in orientation of rotating surgical and anesthesia residents, and other nursing staff.
- Documents nursing interventions incorporating use of Deliverex, DHCP and GUI.
- Provides family and patient teaching.
Qualifications- US Citizen
- Communicate effectively both orally and in writing in the English language
- 2 years of Operating Room experience
- Current, full, active and unrestricted licensure as a graduate professional nurse in a State, Territory, or Commonwealth (i.e., Puerto Rico) of the US or in the District of Columbia.
- AHA BLS
- Graduate of an accredited nursing program
- All continuing education courses required for maintaining certification must be kept up to date at all times.
Pay Range: $51.71 - $144.00 hourly
All candidates must be able to:- Sit, stand, walk, lift, squat, bend, twist, and reach above shoulders during the work shift
- Lift up to 50 lbs from floor to waist
- Lift up to 20 lbs
- Carry up to 40 lbs a reasonable distance
- Push/pull with 30 lbs of force
