CVOR RN - Shea

Responsibilities

• Guided by the ANA Standard for Professional Nurse and Code of Ethics.
• Knowledge of professional nursing principles, practices, concepts, and procedures as applied to the care of the patient population served.
• Records patients' medical history and symptoms, helps perform diagnostic tests and analyze results, operates medical equipment, administers treatment and medications, and helps with patient follow-up and rehabilitation.
• Establishes a care plan or contributes to an existing plan, which may include administering medication, starting, maintaining, and discontinuing IV lines, administering therapies and treatments, observing the patient, and consulting with physicians and other healthcare clinicians.
• Teaches patients and their families how to manage their illnesses or injuries, explains post-treatment and home care needs, diet, nutrition, and exercise programs, and self-administration of medication and therapy.
• Supports efforts to advance clinical knowledge and skills, precepts new hire staff and students, and assists staff and students to seek and complete competency skills.
• Continues to enhance knowledge in nursing management and care of patient problems and conditions as required.
• May continue to improve the patients care plan to enhance patient outcomes and promote cost-effective high-quality healthcare.
• Evaluates the patient's progress towards outcomes, documents observations, nursing interventions, therapeutic measures, multi-systems monitoring data, and other relevant data in a retrievable form.
• Provides ongoing evaluation of the quality and effectiveness of the care plan to ensure maintenance and enhancement of patient outcomes.
• Enhances knowledge of culture and diversity needs for specific populations, integrates ethical principles in all aspects of practice, collaborates with others in the practice of nursing professional development, and fosters peer relationships.
• Collaborates with others in the practice of nursing professional development at the institutional, local, regional, and state levels.
• Collaborates with the patient, family, and other health care providers in providing patient care.
• Develops and evaluates standards of care for patients that are evidence-based.
• Identifies changes that should be made in nursing practice using an evidence-based approach and facilitates the initiation, adoption, and adaptation to change.
• Participates in and uses evidence-based research to identify strategies for improving nursing practice and patient outcomes.
• Designs, creates, and applies research by supporting the integration of research into practice, fostering the use of systematic evaluative research with regard to clinical, educational, and managerial data.
• Considers factors related to safety, effectiveness, and cost in planning and delivering patient care by utilizing all resources effectively and efficiently.

Requirements

• Prior to start, required to have 1 year of Operating Room circulating experience.
• Required to have a diploma or associate degree in nursing (ADN).
• All diploma and ADN hires must complete a BSN within 60 months of hire or have 5 or more years of registered nurse experience at the time of hire.
• Required to have a BSN.
• Required to have a BLS (Basic Life Support) certification.
• Required to have a registered nurse (RN) license in the State of Arizona.
• Required to have national certification for unit-specific patient population.

Qualifications

• Education: Diploma or Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN), required to complete a BSN within 60 months of hire or have 5 or more years of registered nurse experience at the time of hire.
• Licenses/Certifications: Registered Nurse (RN) license in the State of Arizona, Basic Life Support (BLS) certification, and unit-specific certifications as required by specialty area.
• Experience: 1 year of Operating Room circulating experience, required 1 year of RN experience for all float positions.