RN Circulator, Marshall Medical Centers South, OR, 1st shift w/ call

Responsibilities

• Maintains good attendance record.
• Arrives to work punctually.
• Follows dress code.
• Observes confidentiality.
• Adheres to safety policies.
• Participates in continuing education.
• Follows department of nursing and hospital policy and procedures.
• Complies with surgery department policy and procedures.
• Complies with call and staffing assignments.
• Uses the nursing process to plan and provide comprehensive safe patient care.
• Affords assessments to the patient.
• Plans patient care.
• Documents patient care.
• Collaborates with other members of the health care team in planning care.
• Edicates and instructs patient and family.
• Conscientiously and continuously applies nursing principles in patient care.
• Participates in performance improvement activities.
• Administers medications, blood and blood products according to policy and procedure in collaboration with anesthesia.
• Administers treatments, ensuring proper positioning, prepping, and safety of patient before, during, and after procedure.
• Ensures sterile technique is maintained at all times, communicating with team and surgeons for patient safety.
• Performs patient care, scrub or circulating duties as assigned.
• Maintains unit.
• Maintains equipment.
• Communicates patient information.
• Documents information.
• Charges for equipment and supplies.
• Uses computer system efficiently.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited program of professional nursing.
• Must possess a current license as a registered nurse in the state of Alabama.
• Must have current BCLS certification.
• Recommended ACLS and PALS certification.