Procedure Registered Nurse RN
Surgery Partners, Inc · Altoona, WI · 1 mo ago
On-siteHealthcareFull-time
Application Deadline: 09/21/2026
About the role
The Procedure RN is responsible for assisting during procedures. The Procedure RN needs to be adaptable, proficient in patient assessment, and committed to delivering high-quality, patient-centered care in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
- Advocate for patients’ rights, preferences, and needs, ensuring that they receive high-quality, compassionate care that is tailored to their individual circumstances.
- Project a professional demeanor and appearance while maintaining the confidentiality of the patient, coworkers, and the organization, as appropriate.
- Assess patient health problems and needs to develop, implement, and evaluate care in collaboration with healthcare team
- Provide direct patient care, including administering medications and treatments as prescribed
- Educate patients and their families on health conditions, medications, treatment care, and post surgical care
- Inventory all patient belongings preoperatively
- Operate and monitor medical equipment relevant to patient care
- Ensure infection control protocols and safety standards are followed in all aspects of patient care
- Promptly records all care information concisely, accurately, and completely
- Respond to emergency situations using appropriate interventions
- Promptly report and document any occurrences of unusual events, safety concerns, or incidents in accordance with organization policies and procedures
- Plan and direct all nursing care for patients undergoing operative and other invasive procedures
- Provide pre-operative patient education, including pre- and post-surgical instructions, procedure expectations, and recovery guidelines
- Obtain pertinent patient records prior to patient’s arrival for pre-op testing
- Prepare patients for outpatient surgical procedures, including appropriate testing, IV insertion, lab draws, vital signs, and pre-op medications
- Report abnormal values to anesthesia provider and surgeon in a timely manner
- Perform a surgical site identification and verifies consent on every patient
- Ensure compliance with Universal Protocol by initiating a pre-procedural 'Time Out' to prevent wrong-site, wrong-procedure, and wrong-patient errors
- Assist with minor surgical or procedural tasks as needed, ensuring aseptic technique and proper equipment usage
- Assist in positioning and responding to the comfort and safety of the patient
- Monitor patient status throughout the outpatient procedural process, identifying and reporting changes in condition to the surgical team
- Support anesthesia recovery by monitoring airway, consciousness level, vital signs, and pain levels in the PACU
- Document all assessments, interventions, and patient responses accurately in the EMR
- Coordinate discharge planning, ensuring patients meet criteria for discharge.
- Review postoperative instructions and prescriptions from the surgeon with patient and significant other and documents the patient record
- Determine that the patient and significant other understand the conditions that require immediate care and the method to obtain immediate care