Nurse- Surgery, Full Time- West Lake Surgery Center

Purpose

The Nurse - Surgery plans and provides professional nursing services and standards of practice in accordance with level of experience and education, state board of nursing, and established policies and procedures. Integrates the art, science, leadership, and knowledge of nursing clinical practice through relationship-centered, compassionate, ethical, and respectful direct/indirect healthcare services. Note: "patients" refers to patients, clients, residents, participants, customers, members.

Essential Functions

• Our Trinity Health Culture: Knows, understands, incorporates, and demonstrates our Trinity Health Mission, Values, Vision, Actions, and Promise in behaviors, practices, and decisions.
• Professional Nursing Practice: Acts independently and appropriately within license, scope of knowledge, and experience in practice area; continues to evolve with best evidence discoveries; provides leadership and retains accountability for delegation, choices, decisions, and outcomes; collaborates with key stakeholders and contributes to quality and improvement practices and outcomes; exhibits willingness to take on new and additional responsibilities; embraces new ideas and cultural differences while managing competing priorities.
• Professional Nursing Process (ANA): Knows, understands, incorporates, and demonstrates (document, teach, coordinate, advocate) standard elements of professional practice: Assess, Diagnose, Outcomes Identification/Solutions, Plan, Implement, Evaluate.
• Professional Development: Participates in own professional development by maintaining required competencies, licenses, and certifications, identifying learning needs, and seeking appropriate assistance or educational offerings; supports the learning and development of others (e.g., staff, formal learners, patients, families, community).
• Compassion, Communication, and Stewardship: Incorporates caring process (Caritas), advocacy, and appropriate resource utilization as an essential component of nursing practice through concrete acts, interpersonal relationships, and effective and respectful written, verbal, and nonverbal communications.
• Environment of Care: Practices in an environmentally safe, professional manner; monitors and initiates corrections or evidence-based practices, including those for equipment and material resources; promotes optimum physical and psychological behaviors; influences effective, judicious, and financially responsible use of resources. Maintains a working knowledge of applicable federal, state, and local laws/regulations, Trinity Health Integrity & Compliance Program, and Code of Conduct, as well as other policies, procedures, and guidelines in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical, and professional behavior and safe work practices.
• Functional Role (RN II – independent): Practice is guided by nursing process and policy/procedure/standards and participation in professional/shared governance; independently and safely cares for patients common to assigned area or technical/operational services. Acts as a resource for others and may serve in intermittent expanded roles.

Minimum Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing.
• Valid RN licensure authorized in the applicable state(s) of practice/employment.
• Valid driver's license where required by assignment.

Additional Qualifications (Nice to Have)

• Baccalaureate of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree from an accredited school of nursing.
• Specialty credentialing and educational degree according to clinical nursing practice specialty area.

Physical & Mental Requirements & Working Conditions

Direct Healthcare Services / Indirect Healthcare / Support Services:

• Exposure to conditions which may be considered unpleasant to sight, touch, sound, and/or smell (Occasional).
• Exposure to fumes, odors, dusts, mists, and gases, biohazards/hazards (mechanical, electrical, burns, chemicals, radiation, sharp objects, etc.) (Occasional).
• Exposure to or subject to noise, infectious waste, diseases, and conditions (Occasional).
• Exposure to interruptions, shifting priorities, and stressful situations (Occasional).
• Ability to follow tasks through to completion, understand and relate to complex ideas/concepts, remember multiple tasks and regimens over long periods of time, and work on concurrent tasks/projects (Frequent).
• Ability to read small print, hear sounds and voice/speech patterns, give/receive instructions and other verbal communications (in-person and/or over the phone/computer/device/equipment assigned) with some background noise (Frequent).
• Perform manual dexterity activities and/or grasping/handling (Frequent).
• Ability to climb, kneel, crouch, and/or operate foot controls (Occasional).
• Use a computer/other technology (Occasional).
• Sit with the ability to vary/adjust physical position or activity (Frequent).
• Maintain a safe working environment and use available personal protective equipment (PPE) (Frequent).
• Comply with Trinity Health's Code of Conduct, policies, procedures, and guidelines (Continuous).
• Ability to provide assistance in the event of an emergency (Continuous).

Direct Healthcare Services:

• Perform activities that require standing/walking with the ability to vary/adjust physical position or activity (Continuous).
• Lift a maximum of 30 pounds unassisted (Frequent).
• Use upper and lower extremities, engage in bending/stooping/reaching and pushing/pulling (Frequent).
• Work indoors (subject to travel requirements) under temperature-controlled and well-lit conditions (Continuous).
• Encounter worksites (e.g., patient homes) or travel to worksites that may have variable internal and external environmental conditions (Continuous).
• Perform work that involves physical efforts (e.g., transporting, moving, positioning, and/or ambulating patients) (Continuous).

Indirect Healthcare / Support Services:

• Perform activities that require standing/walking with the ability to vary/adjust physical position or activity (Frequent).
• Lift a maximum of 30 pounds unassisted (Occasional).
• Experience of long periods of walking/standing/stooping/bending/pulling and/or pushing (Occasional).
• Encounter a clinical/patient facing/hands on interactive work environment (Occasional).
• Work indoors (subject to travel requirements) under temperature-controlled and well-lit conditions (Continuous).
• Work outdoors with variable external environmental conditions (Occasional).

Average Workday Activity: Occasional - O (1% - 33%), Frequent - F (34% - 66%), Continuous - C (67% - 100%)