Registered Nurse

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensures continual delivery of high-quality nursing care
• Affords and implements innovative nursing practices to improve the facility
• Maintains a healthy, collaborative team environment
• Mentors/trains other surgical staff, as needed
• Promotes positive customer relations within the ASC
• Has working knowledge of all equipment and procedures
• Oversees safety surveillance and task related responsibilities that have been delegated to others to ensure effective and desired results
• Oversees infection control surveillance and task related responsibilities that have been delegated to others to ensure effective and desired results
• Maintains documentation of patient care services by auditing patient and department records, including but not limited to autoclave receipts
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies
• Maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information; responding to requests; building rapport; participating in team problem-solving methods
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
• Consults and coordinates with health care team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care plans
• Makes sure rooms, sterile instruments, equipment and supplies are prepared
• Deals compassionately, professionally, and courteously with patients, their families, physicians, and fellow employees
• Follows safety and infection control procedures
• Adheres to all federal, state and nursing regulations and protocols including but not limited to patient safety procedures such as verification of patient identification prior to procedures
• Identifies every patient with two identifiers: full name and date of birth
• Documents this information in the Procedure Safety Checklist, including the time of the time-out
• Identifies an emergency situation and is able to appropriately intervene
• Understands and administers regulatory policies (i.e.: Joint Commission/AAAHC, CDC, State, etc.)
• Deploys, monitors, and ensures that the facilities operational processes are appropriately integrated within the facility’s quality programs
• Maintains patient, physician, and employee privacy and confidentiality in accordance with HIPAA, Company and other regulatory standards
• Assists with supply ordering, as needed
• Provides clinical support for procedures
• Maintains accurate, detailed reports and records
• Marks symptoms and changes in patients' conditions
• Records patients' medical information and vital signs
• Ensures history and physicals are complete on each patient, by the provider, prior to procedures
• Consults and coordinate with health care team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care plans
• Instructs individuals, families and others on topics such as health education, disease prevention and develop health improvement programs
• Oversees and ensures that daily/quarterly/annual binders/logs are up to date
• Informs physician of patient's condition before, during and after procedures
• Acts as a liaison between the physician and the patient and patients family or support person(s)
• Maintains the role of patient advocate
• Ensures, provides and explains discharge instructions to all patients
• Ensures physician has cleared patient for discharge prior to discharging the patient
• Assists in the stocking and inventory of the clinical area
• Ensures all applicable Surgery Center staff and guests wear radiation badges
• Maintains and stores radiation safety equipment
• Conducts annual apron and thyroid shield inspections
• Conducts safety drills, as required
• Conducts daily inventory of and ensures policies and procedures are followed for controlled substances
• As assigned, ensures operation of medical and administrative equipment by verifying emergency equipment availability; completing preventive maintenance requirements; following manufacturer's instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions; calling for repairs; maintaining equipment inventories; evaluating new equipment and techniques
• Orders/requests supplies as needed
• Checks and responds to work e-mail on a regular basis throughout the workday
• Participate in and complete all required trainings and in-services

Minimum Qualifications

• Associates Degree in Nursing
• Knowledge of Internet and Microsoft Office software (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook)
• Certified Licensure as a Registered Nurse in the state in which the employee practices, or must hold a nursing license within a compact eligible state
• Current ACLS and BLS certification
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including exceptional customer service
• Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with doctors, clinical staff, other co-workers and the public
• Able to work individually as well as within a team
• Able to follow both verbal and written instructions
• Able to work a flexible schedule
• Able to respond with patience and understanding during stressful conditions related to patient health and emergent situations
• Able to multi-task and prioritize
• Working knowledge of all equipment and procedures
• Extremely attentive to detail
• Strong organization skills
• Uses reasoning
• Maintains and projects a professional attitude and appearance at all times
• Strong desire to provide excellent customer service
• Complies with the rules and regulations of those organizations to which we are accountable
• Has high ethical and professional standards of conduct
• Wants to continuously improve their own professional performance

Preferred Qualifications

• One (1) year experience as a Registered Nurse
• One (1) year of prior experience working in a Pain Management practice
• One (1) year of prior experience working with an Electronic Medical Record (EMR)