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SalaryPleasantdale Ambulatory Care is looking for a full time Preoperative Registered Nurse, Supervises and directs patient care in a single operating room.
Philosophy:
Philosophy:
- Supports the facility’s ideology, mission, goals, and objectives.
- Performs in accordance with the facility’s policies and procedures.
- Follows the facility’s standards for ethical business conduct.
- Conducts self as a positive role model and team member.
- Recognizes patients’ rights and responsibilities and supports them in performance of job duties.
- Participates in facility committees, meetings, inservices, and activities.
Communication:
- Communicates effectively and professionally with patients, visitors, physicians, and coworkers.
- Interacts with others in a positive, respectful, and considerate manner.
Financial practices:
- Uses facility resources appropriately and avoids wasteful practices.
- Reports wasteful practices.
- Analyzes work area and makes recommendations for potential cost-effective improvements.
Compliance program:
- Contributes to the progress and development of the organization’s adopted compliance program.
- Performs according to established compliance policies and procedures.
Performance-improvement program:
- Contributes to the progress and development of the organization's adopted performance-improvement program.
- Performs according to established performance-improvement policies and procedures.
- Objectively evaluates suggestions, grievances, and processes to identify opportunities to improve performance and quality of care.
- Participates in data collection activities to support the performance-improvement program.
Safety/risk-management program:
- Adheres to safety policies and procedures in performing job duties and responsibilities.
- Reports observed or suspected safety violations, hazards, and policy/procedure noncompliance to the safety officer or other designated person.
Professional competence
- Participates in continuing education and other learning experiences.
- Shares knowledge gained in continuing education with staff.
- Maintains membership in relevant professional organizations.
- Seeks new learning experiences by accepting challenging opportunities and responsibilities.
- Participates in teaching programs in the facility for employees and physicians on topics of special interest and topics pertinent to outpatient surgery.
- Researches and submits pertinent articles for review at staff meetings.
- Assists with orientation and training of new personnel and acts as a resource person for problems related to patient care.
- Welcomes suggestions and recommendations.
Duties:
- Participates as a team member in support of the total perioperative process.
- Organizes time, equipment, supplies, and personnel to provide effective and efficient case management.
- Supervises and directs patient care in a single operating room.
- Organizes nursing activities efficiently and effectively.
- Delegates activities appropriate to the abilities of available staff members.
- Considers cost containment by using supplies economically and in effective turnover time.
- Assists with supply, drug, and equipment inventories to maintain stock level and availability.
- Addresses patient needs during admission to the operating room, with attention to requirements specific to the outpatient setting.
- 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 patients’ medical records/needs to plan care with other healthcare team members.
- Provides comfort and reassurance to patient.
- Maintains patients’ privacy and dignity.
- Explains intraoperative phase of routine procedures and care to the patient.
- Performs the circulating nurse’s 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 patient’s status.
Qualifications:
- Cooperative work attitude toward co-employees, management, patients, visitors, and physicians.
- Ability to promote favorable facility image with physicians, patients, insurance companies, and general public.
- Ability to make decisions and solve problems.
Requirements:
- High school graduate or GED certificate recipient.
- Graduate of accredited school of nursing.
- RN with active license in appropriate state.
- CPR certified.
- Leadership qualities.
- Strong ethical and moral character references.
- Language skills adequate for high-level written, interpersonal, and telephone communication in American English.
