Operating Room Registered Nurse

$108K — $112K *
Hospitals & Medical Centers
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • High school diploma or GED required
  • Graduated from an accredited nursing school
  • Active RN license in the respective state
  • Current CPR certification
  • Preferred ACLS certification
  • Preferred experience in Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASC)

Responsibilities

  • Adhere to facility policies and procedures
  • Follow ethical business conduct standards
  • Serve as a positive team role model
  • Support and uphold patients’ rights
  • Communicate professionally with patients and healthcare team
  • Transport patients while ensuring their needs and safety
  • Prepare operating room and anticipate surgical team needs
  • Document patient care accurately and in compliance with policies

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional growth and development
  • Join an award-winning bariatric practice
  • Support a mission of improving patient health
  • Dynamic, fast-paced work environment
  • Team-oriented atmosphere focused on patient care
Full Job Description
Overview

How you’ll serve our patients

Every day is an opportunity to grow and provide better outcomes at every level. Whether your interests lie as medical staff, administrative, facilities or marketing, every individual plays an important part in our success and the success of our patients. We are a fast-paced growing practice that is always looking for new talent and great employees to enhance our team.

You will serve patients daily in a multitude of ways:

What is in it for you

Compensation is $52.00 - $54.00 per hour, depending on experience

Responsibilities
  • Performs in accordance with the facility27s policies and procedures
  • Follows the facility27s standards for ethical business conduct
  • Conducts self as a positive role model and team member
  • Recognizes patients27 rights and responsibilities and supports them in performance of job duties
  • Communicates effectively and professionally with patients, visitors, physicians, and coworkers
  • Interacts with others in a positive, respectful, and considerate manner
  • Performs according to established compliance policies and procedures
  • Reports observed or suspected safety violations, hazards, and policy/procedure noncompliance to the safety officer or other designated person
  • Transports patients to the operating room observing policies/procedures, safety requirements, and patient needs
  • Identifies the patient and correct surgical intervention according to policy/procedure and communicates such information to all members of the surgical team
  • Reviews patients27 medical records/needs to plan care with other healthcare team members
  • Provides comfort and reassurance to patient
  • Maintains patients27 privacy and dignity
  • Explains intraoperative phase of routine procedures and care to the patient
  • Performs the circulating nurse27s role and functions following approved operating room procedures to meet the requirements of scheduled procedures
  • Prepares operating room according to requirements of patient/procedure to be performed
  • Assembles and provides properly functioning equipment, supplies, and instruments before start of procedure and positions and adjusts equipment as required during the procedure
  • Anticipates needs of surgical team and assists anesthesia personnel by supporting patient during administration of anesthesia
  • Assists with the proper and safe positioning of the patient and prepares operative site as directed by established procedures
  • Monitors compliance with principles of aseptic technique according to accepted standards
  • Assists with identification and confirmation of operative site
  • Provides for comfort in the physical environment by monitoring designated parameters
  • Provides continuity of patient care by communicating with other perioperative care personnel and documenting records accordingly
  • Responds in a timely manner to meet the needs of the patient and physician
  • Accurately comprehends and interprets verbal orders/directions
  • Documents patient care records and other forms accurately following policies and procedures
  • Accurately advises others responsible for care of the patient about patient27s status
Qualifications

Required

  • High school graduate or GED certificate recipient
  • Graduate of accredited school of nursing
  • RN with active license in appropriate state
  • CPR certified

Preferred

  • ACLS certification
  • ASC experience

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