Registered Nurse - Operating Room - Per Diem

Responsibilities

• Supports the organizational values: Compassion and respect for Human Dignity, Commitment to Professional Competence, Commitment to a spirit of service, Honesty, Confidentiality, and Good Stewardship.
• Carefully administers critical thinking knowledge, integration skills, and considers alternatives in a multitask workload.
• Collects and integrates data from multiple sources, seeks assistance when needed.
• Applies knowledge of expected norms in planning interventions.
• Demonstrates integration of knowledge, skills, and abilities for the patient populations served in the unit area of hire.
• Incorporates teaching in the delivery of care and demonstrates competence in health promotion & disease prevention.
• Provides information to patients and families appropriately, assesses for barriers to learning, and uses colleagues as a learning resource.
• Applies leadership skills appropriately.
• Captures and coordinates care within the multi-disciplinary team, interacts professionally, communicates directly, and verbalizes scope of practice for self and others.
• Incorporates appropriate assessment and intervention skills in all interactions and delivery of nursing care: medical asepsis, physical assessment, monitoring, pain management, reports, therapeutic interventions, medication administration, IV lines management, evaluation & revisions of plan of care, procedures, & medical technology.
• Manages self and resources effectively.
• Organizes multitask workload, accepts changes in assignment, utilizes supplies appropriately, and requests assistance when necessary.
• Develops and maintains human care relationships and integrates the influence of the human experience of health, illness &/or healing.
• Adapts care for diverse populations, assists colleagues with care delivery, and refers all concerns/issues to appropriate resources.

Qualifications

• Associate Degree (or certification equivalent).
• Minimum of one year OR experience required.
• Current Vermont licensure and BLS.