Registered Nurse - Operating Room

About the role

A clinically competent, registered, professional nurse who has demonstrated expertise in the perioperative field. Effectively delivers perioperative care to the surgical/endoscopic patient through the nursing process of assessment, planning, intervention, implementation, and evaluation.

Employment type: Casual (as-needed basis). Department: Surgical Services.

Responsibilities

• Collects patient health data relevant to the operative or invasive procedure, analyzes the data to determine nursing diagnosis and identifies expected outcomes unique to the patient.
• Develops and implements an individualized plan of care to attain expected outcomes and evaluates the patient’s progress toward attaining outcomes.
• Systematically evaluates the quality and appropriateness of nursing practice.
• Communicates professionally and effectively with patients, families, co-workers, healthcare team members, and ancillary departments to ensure “Patient Centered” coordination of care.
• Acquires and maintains specialized knowledge and skills in nursing practice and evaluates practice in context with current professional practice standards, rules and regulations.
• Maintains a working knowledge of the AORN and Joint Commission standards.
• Assigned call for weeknights, holidays, and weekends in an equal rotation with other OR nurses.
• Interacts with and contributes to the professional growth of peers and colleagues.
• Participates in performance improvement activities in the unit and organization.
• Incorporates research findings into practice.
• Provides leadership in the profession and professional practice setting.
• Collaborates with and delegates to ancillary/professional staff as appropriate; assures adherence to their scope of practice, considering licensure and/or certification.
• Collaborates with the patient and designated support person(s) when practicing professional nursing.
• Care and management of endoscopy and surgical patients.
• Considers factors related to safety, effectiveness, efficiency, and the environment as well as cost in planning, delivering, and evaluating patient care.
• Assigned service line responsibilities by the Director of Surgical Services.
• Uses ethical principles to determine decisions and actions.
• Participates in staff meeting, committees, and special projects; actively contributes to Surgical Services quality and development.

Qualifications

• Current Licensure with the Minnesota Board of Nursing.
• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing and 2 years of OR RN experience preferred.
• OR RN experience and/or clinical experience as a Certified Surgical Technologist, and/or successful completion of a Peri-operative course (AORN or CCI) or equivalent.
• BLS and ACLS certifications or ability to attain within six months and maintain certification.
• Demonstrated ability to manage large volumes of multiple patient/family/staff/physicians/priorities within short time frames and organize workload; includes critical thinking, delegation skills, and respectful communication.
• Experience in assessing the individual needs of adult, geriatric, adolescent, and pediatric patients