Registered Nurse (Per Diem) Same Day Surgery

About the role

The Day Surgery Nurse directs and manages nursing care in the ambulatory surgery unit, Ensures that patients are admitted and discharged efficiently and consistently.

Responsibilities

• Assists with admission and discharge processes to ensure efficient throughput and high quality, patient-centered care
• Participates in the ongoing assessment of the quality of patient care services provided in the facility, in collaboration with other members of the management team
• Serves as a preceptor/mentor and works directly with new employees to fulfill planned orientation to the unit
• Chooses RWJBarnabas Health!

Requirements

• NJ RN License
• BLS
• ACLS
• Preferred Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
• 1 year Inpatient Nursing Experience
• Certified Ambulatory Surgery Nurse (CNAMB)
• Certified Ambulatory Perianesthesia Nurse (CAPA)

Qualifications

• Knowledge and skills required to provide care to patients and families of all age groups (neonate, pediatric, adolescent, adult, and geriatric), dependent upon care setting
• The ability to adapt quickly to rapid patient turnover and diverse patient needs is crucial
• Strong interpersonal skills for clear communication with patients, families, and the surgical team
• The ability to use problem-solving techniques and critical thinking to ensure high-quality patient care
• The ability to use problem-solving techniques and critical thinking to ensure high-quality patient care

Skills

• Measuring and recording patients' vital signs
• Updating charts, patient files, and medical records
• Performing post-discharge phone calls
• Communicating operating room activities to facilitate efficiency in the surgical case progression and turnover between cases
• Implementing safe, competent, and efficient patient and family care within policies, procedures, and standards of care plan to the perioperative patient's level of complexity
• Recognizing potential problems and responding to general information/data indicating urgent and/or emergent risk to the patient
• Assuming responsibility and accountability for effectively managing the care of responses and/or solutions to patient problems
• Evaluating patient's responses to care based on effectiveness of nursing interventions/actions in relationship to established goals
• Initiating changes in the interdisciplinary care plan based on this evaluation
• Problem solving with the specialty team to improve patient outcomes
• Identifying learning needs of patients/families and teaching by adapting standard information based on needs
• Communicating with patient and family to identify their needs and includes them in the plan of care
• Acknowledging and supporting determinations by the patient and/or family concerning treatment
• Assuming responsibility for meeting own learning needs and assessing the learning needs of the unit
• Making sound judgments in the decisions involved in coordinating multiple, increasingly complex patient care demands
• Supervising delegated care based on abilities of nursing staff and patient acuity
• Planning, directing, and evaluating unit activities as a trauma/triage charge nurse as warranted
• Participating in and facilitating the change process to enable continued growth and improvement in patient care
• Supporting a culture of continuous improvement
• Participating in the development of the Surgical Services Department goals
• Participating in committees/meetings as delegated

Benefits

As the leading academic health system in New Jersey, we advance innovative strategies in high-quality patient care, education, and research to address both the clinical and social determinants of health. RWJBarnabas Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer.