Registered Nurse (RN), Operating Room (OR)

About the role

Join St. Francis–Emory Healthcare, a 376-bed community-connected hospital in Columbus, GA, that blends cutting-edge care with hometown purpose. As part of the ScionHealth network, St. Francis has been recognized and awarded multiple high-performing honors by U.S. News & World Report, received multiple disease-specific certifications from the Joint Commission, and was rated a Top Large Hospital in Georgia. The hospital delivers advanced heart, orthopedic, and women’s care services and fosters a culture of excellence where your work directly shapes the health of the community.

Responsibilities

• Direct and coordinate all nursing care based on established clinical nursing practice standards.
• Collaborate with other professional disciplines to ensure effective and efficient patient care delivery and achievement of desired patient outcomes.
• Practice nursing as defined: diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential health alterations.
• Utilize the nursing process in provision of nursing care, including administering treatments and medications, interpreting diagnostic tests, formulating a plan of care, collaborating with other health care providers, and providing education to patients and/or significant others.
• Pass required competencies for the position.
• Exercise discretion and independent action within prescribed limits.
• Collect patient health data; determine priority of data collection based on patient’s immediate condition or needs; collect pertinent data using appropriate assessment techniques; involve patient, significant others, and health care providers in data collection when appropriate; ensure data collection process is systematic and ongoing; document relevant data in the medical record according to hospital standards.
• Analyze assessment data to determine diagnoses/patient problems; derive diagnoses/patient problems from assessment data; validate diagnoses/patient problems with patient, significant other, and health care providers when possible; document diagnoses/patient problems to facilitate determination of expected outcomes and plan.
• Identify expected outcomes individualized to the patient; derive outcomes from diagnoses/patient problems; document outcomes as measurable goals; formulate outcomes mutually with patient and health care providers when possible; ensure outcomes are realistic relative to patient’s present and potential capabilities; ensure outcomes are attainable relative to resources available to the patient; ensure outcomes include a time estimate for attainment; ensure outcomes provide direction for continuity of care.
• Anticipate potential problem situations and intervene to offset adverse impact.
• Develop a plan of care that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes; individualize plan to patient’s condition or need; develop plan with patient, significant others, and health care providers when appropriate; ensure plan reflects current nursing practice; document plan; provide continuity of care in the plan.
• Implement interventions identified in the plan of care; establish interventions consistent with plan; implement interventions safely and appropriately; document interventions.
• Evaluate patient’s progress toward attainment of outcomes; ensure evaluation is systematic and ongoing; document patient’s responses to interventions; evaluate effectiveness of interventions relative to outcomes; utilize ongoing assessment data to revise diagnoses/patient problems, outcomes, and plan of care as needed; document revisions; involve patient, significant others, and health care providers in evaluation process when appropriate.
• Participate in quality-of-care activities, including identification of aspects of care important for quality monitoring, identification of indicators used to monitor quality and effectiveness of nursing care, collection of data to monitor quality and effectiveness, analysis of quality data to identify opportunities for improving care, formulation of recommendations to improve nursing care or patient outcomes, implementation of activities to enhance quality of nursing practice, and utilization of results to initiate changes in practice.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree preferred; graduate of an accredited school of professional nursing.
• Licenses/Certifications: Current RN license in the state of practice or compact state required.
• Experience: Minimum of one year of hospital clinical experience preferred.