Registered Nurse

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensures continual delivery of high-quality nursing care
• Adopts 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
• Affirms 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
• Makes observations and reports 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
• Current 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
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with doctors, clinical staff, other co-workers and the public
• Ability to work individually as well as within a team
• Ability to follow both verbal and written instructions
• Ability to work a flexible schedule
• Ability to respond with patience and understanding during stressful conditions related to patient health and emergent situations
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize
• Working knowledge of all equipment and procedures
• Extreme attention to detail
• Strong organization skills
• Strong problem solving and reasoning abilities
• Maintain and project a professional attitude and appearance at all times
• Strong desire to provide excellent customer service; to comply with the rules and regulations of those organizations to which we are accountable; to have high ethical and professional standards of conduct; and to have an attitude of wanting to continuously improve their own professional performance
• Proof of influenza vaccination annually
• Two (2)-step PPD (NE staff) OR must complete an annual PPD (SE staff)
• All staff are expected to have a strong desire to provide excellent customer service; to comply with the rules and regulations of those organizations to which we are accountable; to have high ethical and professional standards of conduct; and to have an attitude of wanting to continuously improve their own professional performance