Registered Nurse, Same Day Surgery

About the role

The Day Surgery Nurse directs and manages nursing care in the ambulatory surgery unit, ensuring 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 patient-first advocate and engages in service recovery when necessary.
• Maintains accurate and up-to-date patient records and ensures compliance with regulatory standards.
• Coordinates and communicates continuity of care issues with other nursing units pre-and-post-operatively.
• Communicates operating room activities to facilitate efficiency in the surgical case progression and turnover between cases.
• Implements safe, competent, and efficient patient and family care within policies, procedures, and standards of care plan to the perioperative patient’s level of complexity.
• Recognizes potential problems and responds to general information/data indicating urgent and/or emergent risk to the patient.
• Assumes responsibility and accountability for effectively managing the care of responses and/or solutions to patient problems.
• Evaluates patient’s responses to care based on effectiveness of nursing interventions/actions in relationship to established goals.
• Initiates changes in the interdisciplinary care plan based on this evaluation.
• Problem solves with the specialty team to improve patient outcomes.
• Identifies learning needs of patients/families and teaches by adapting standard information based on needs.
• Communicates with patient and family to identify their needs and includes them in the plan of care.
• Acknowledges and supports determinations by the patient and/or family concerning treatment.
• Assumes responsibility for meeting own learning needs and assesses the learning needs of the unit.
• Serves as a preceptor/mentor and works directly with new employees to fulfill planned orientation to the unit.
• Assists in the orientation, instruction, direction, and evaluation of students assigned to the unit.
• Identifies learning experience to gain or maintain competency.
• Makes sound judgments in the decisions involved in coordinating multiple, increasingly complex patient care demands.
• Supervises delegated care based on abilities of nursing staff and patient acuity.
• Plans, directs, and evaluates unit activities as a trauma/triage charge nurse as warranted.
• Participates in and facilitates the change process to enable continued growth and improvement in patient care.
• Assumes responsibility for the professional development of self, Registered Nurses, and other nursing staff.
• Supports a culture of continuous improvement.
• Participates in the development of the Surgical Services Department goals.
• Participates in committees/meetings as delegated.

Qualifications

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

Skills

The successful candidate will possess the 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.

Benefits

At RWJBarnabas Health, our market-competitive Total Rewards package provides comprehensive benefits and resources to support our employees’ physical, emotional, social, and financial health. This includes:

• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Medical and Prescription Drug Insurance
• Dental and Vision Insurance
• Retail Retirement Plans
• Short & Long Term Disability
• Life & Accidental Death Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Health Care/Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Wellness Programs
• Voluntary Benefits
• Discounts through our partners such as NJ Devils, NJ PAC, Verizon, and more!