Job Summary and Responsibilities
As our Surgical Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery.
Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.
To be successful in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.
- Safety
- Maintains current knowledge of all patient safety standards and National Patient Safety goals and consistently incorporates into nursing practice.
- Able to safely administer medications and blood/blood products using the 7 (seven) rights of medication and blood administration. Uses 2 (two) separate hospital approved identifiers to safely identify the patient prior to medication / blood administration.
- Maintain a safe, therapeutic work environment at all times and identifies and addresses problems to the appropriate departments.
- Adheres to principles of infection control, including medical and surgical asepsis and isolation techniques. Demonstrates aseptic technique while conducting sterile dressing changes, urinary catheterizations, and other similar duties.
- Receive, interpret and implement physician orders in a safe and timely manner. Uses hospital approved process for telephone and / or verbal orders that include a readback of all orders.
Job Requirements
Required
- High School Graduate Education level necessary to obtainrequired licensure and certifications 1 year of operating room/ surgicalexperience. If operational conditionspermit, training a candidate without therequired experience may be considered., upon hire or
- High School GED, upon hire
- Registered Nurse: CA, upon hire and
- Basic Life Support - CPR, American Heart Association (AHA)
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support, American Heart Association (AHA)
Preferred
- Bachelors Other, upon hire
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support, American Heart Association (AHA)
