Registered Nurse

Busy ambulatory surgery center seeking full time Registered Nurse - Operating Room. Must have experience circulating multiple specialties. Operating rooms run 7:30am-3:30pm - no nights, weekends or call! This is an SCA Health facility, part of a large network of ASCs with great benefits.

Education, Experience, and Licensure:
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Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
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One year of OR and/or medical / surgical nursing experience preferred.
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Current state nursing licensure to practice in good standings.
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Successful completion of Basic Life Support (BLS) or Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS)
within 90 of employment or documentation of current BLS/BCLS certification.
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Specialty certification in Perioperative Nursing is preferred. Ability to scrub & circulate preferred.

Primary Responsibilities:
o Assess patient status throughout the perioperative episode of care.
o Develop an individualized perioperative patient plan of care by implementing:
o Protecting the patient from injury caused by extraneous objects and chemical,
electrical, laser, mechanical, and thermal sources.
o Demonstrating safe operation of equipment and machinery and following
procedures for reporting and correcting an unsafe situation.
o Handling specimens according to facility policy and procedures.
o Adhering to standard precautions including the use of personal protective
equipment.
o Communicating the patient’s current status to relevant parties throughout the
continuum of care.
o Administering medications safely and correctly using the 8 rights of medication
administration.
o Performing interventions to maintain the patient’s wound and tissue perfusion
at or above baseline levels.
o Performing interventions to ensure the patient is at or returned to
normothermia at the conclusion of the immediate postoperative period.
o Providing nursing and appropriate monitoring in accordance with policies and
procedures.
o Performing interventions to protect the patient from surgical site infection.
o Assessing the knowledge level of the patient or designated support person.
o Providing education regarding the expected psychosocial response, nutritional
management, medication management, pain management, wound
management, and expected responses to the operative or invasive procedure.
o Involving the patient or designated support person actively in decisions affecting
his or her perioperative plan of care and the rehabilitation process.
o Protecting the patient’s rights, dignity, and privacy.
o Providing age-specific, culturally competent, ethical care within legal standards
of practice.
o Complying with Universal Protocol and facility site validation and time-out
policy.