Registered Nurse – Pre/Post Op- ECLSI

Position Summary

The ASC Operating Room and PACU nurses work collaboratively with the physicians and the anesthesia health care providers to determine patient needs undergoing surgical procedures and to assume responsibility for patient care, document and evaluate the effectiveness of nursing actions and ensure a safe environment of care. The nurse will be knowledgeable about the scrub and circulation duties performed in the ASC.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Demonstrates knowledge and practice of: Environment of Care Safety - Department specific and ASC-wide safety risksSecurity - Processes for minimizing security risksHaz Mat/Waste - Procedures for spills/MSDSEmergency Preparedness - Role in emergency codesMed Equipment - Safe operation of equipment
• Play an active role in the QAPI program by auditing and monitoring for safe practices, continually working towards a safe environment for patients/staff
• Patient Rights
• Patient Rights and Responsibilities
• Confidentiality Policies – HIPAA
• Ethical Issue Resolution
• Patient Safety
• Verbal orders repeated and verified during procedure
• Prevention of fires in the OR
• MEDICATION SAFETY
• Safe storage and use of narcotics
• Look-alike and sound-alike medications
• Dangerous abbreviations list
• Check system for infusion pump drug, rate and concentration
• Conscious/deep sedation monitoring
• Transferring medication from a nonsterile to sterile field
• Specimen Handling
• Protects welfare of patient by accurate labeling and handling of specimen
• Disposition of all surgical specimens, initial specimen label are entered into Pathology logbook
• IV Therapy
• Insertion
• Aseptic technique
• Site
• Dressing
• Tubing changes
• Use of pumps

Skills

• Performs age-specific nursing assessments
• Demonstrates age-appropriate communication skills
• Demonstrates ability to interpret arrhythmias and initiate age-specific responses
• Demonstrates ability to assess age-specific safety issues and implements appropriate safety devices
• Demonstrates ability to interpret patient data and react to changes in the patient’s condition

Service Standards

• Proactive
• Anticipates and responds to patient, physician, family members, coworkers needs
• Sensitive to patients’ physical, social and cultural needs
• Accountable and committed to coworkers by being a dependable member of the team, addressing issues in a timely manner
• Owns all tasks and ensures all mandatory obligations are met
• Gives all patients their full attention and treats them with dignity, respect and understanding
• Presents a clean, professional, well-groomed image
• Safeguards patient confidentiality in all forms of communication
• Works effectively with others toward achieving common goals including morale and teamwork
• Interacts compassionately and in a timely manner with all customers, patients and coworkers

Assessment Skills

• Recognizes and reports signs and symptoms of abuse and neglect
• Demonstrates clear knowledge necessary to provide patient care by ensuring all instruments, equipment and supplies are available for procedures
• Assessment of pain upon admission and through the patient’s stay
• Demonstrates awareness of appropriate medication use and follows all policies concerning medication administration
• Assessment and reassessment of patient’s response to medications
• Utilize the nursing process along with AORN standards to ensure all of the patient safety goals are incorporated into the care of the patient
• Demonstrates knowledge of aseptic technique
• Applies principles of asepsis, maintains sterile field technique at the sterile field, assist with care of equipment and supplies after the surgical procedure is completed
• Identifies emergency situations and institutes corrective actions in a calm and efficient manner
• Maintains organizational skill and manual dexterity in the economy of time, motion and supply utilization in a safe, efficient manner
• Completes documentation in an accurate and timely manner
• Supports and comforts preoperative patients
• Demonstrates proficiency in care of patients receiving conscious sedation
• Assists physician during procedures; carries out physician orders
• Calls patients pre-operatively for pre-admission directives and post-operative follow-up care

Work Relationships and Scope

• The Registered Nurse works closely with all staff and Doctors and reports directly to the COO.

Qualifications

• Vocational/Technical Degree as a Registered Nurse is required
• Current RN License in the state of Wisconsin
• BLS and CPR certification is required
• ACLS certification is preferred; must be obtained within one year of employment

Work Conditions

• EC Laser and Surgery Institute has multiple locations. While staff will be assigned to a “home” location, travel to satellites is a requirement of the position.
• Hours of work will be dependent on the needs of the Ambulatory Surgery Center.
• Requires the ability to sit or stand for extended periods of time. Occasional lifting (30 pounds), bending, stooping, pushing, pulling, and climbing stairs is required.

Reasonable Accommodations

• All requirements are subject to change over time.

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