Registered Nurse - PRN

Responsibilities

• Affords planned and highly skilled nursing care for all of or patients.
• Ensures continuous patient surveillance, enabling early recognition and immediate emergency treatment of medical or surgical complications.
• Completes the Safety Checklist before entering the OR, during the procedure, and after the procedure with signature, date, and time.
• Sets up supplies and medications, ensuring equipment is clean, safe, and functional, and completes the checklist given to the Facility Manager.
• Completes relevant forms (e.g., labs, tissue, FDA, billing, waiver of liability for visitors) and logs (e.g., tissue, Lens, temperature/humidity) as required.
• Maintains sterile technique where applicable, both in surgery and assisting the scrub tech and surgeon.
• Demonstrates ability to pre-op and recover patients as needed based on the staffing pattern for the surgical day.
• Receives brief reports from Pre-op RN when the patient is taken to the OR, assists the anesthesiologist in transferring the patient to and from the OR, brings the chart and necessary supplies to the PACU, and gives a brief report to the PACU RN.
• Cleans the OR after surgery with the CST and prepares the room for the next case before assisting with the transfer of the next patient to the OR.
• Aids in the proper disposal of needles, sharps, syringes, and other waste; assists with the clean-up of the OR between cases; and at the end of the day, assists in preparing the surgery suite for the next day's cases.

Requirements

• Licensed to practice nursing in the State of CA upon start date.