RN Operating Room

Responsibilities

• Guided by the ANA Standard for Professional Nurse and Code of Ethics.
• Knowledge of professional nursing principles, practices, concepts, and procedures as applied to the care of the patient population served.
• Records patients' medical history and symptoms, helps perform diagnostic tests and analyze results, operates medical equipment, administers treatment and medications, and helps with patient follow-up and rehabilitation.
• Establishes a care plan or contributes to an existing plan, which may include administering medication, starting, maintaining, and discontinuing IV lines, administering therapies and treatments, observing the patient, and consulting with physicians and other healthcare clinicians.
• Teaches patients and their families how to manage their illnesses or injuries, explains post-treatment and home care needs, diet, nutrition, and exercise programs, and self-administration of medication and therapy.
• Supports efforts to advance clinical knowledge and skills, precepts new hire staff and students, and assists staff and students to seek and complete competency skills.
• Enhances knowledge in nursing management and care of patient problems and conditions as required.
• May continue to improve the patients care plan to enhance patient outcomes.

Requirements

• Possess the knowledge of how to collect health data in a systematic and ongoing manner, prioritizing data collection as determined by the patient’s immediate condition or needs and involving the family.
• Analyzes the assessment data in determining diagnoses, utilizes the nursing diagnosis to develop, implement, evaluate and revise an appropriate patient plan of care that is family centered, developmentally and age-appropriate, and culturally relevant.
• Develops plans of care that are individualized to the patient’s condition or needs, reflecting current nursing practice that is evidence-based, providing for continuity of care, and are family centered.
• Implements interventions in the plan of care, initiates treatments, medications, emergency and resuscitative measures based on appropriate utilization of standing orders, policies and procedures.
• Provides nursing care to meet the physical, emotional, spiritual, and social-cultural needs of the patient and family utilizing a family-centered approach to care delivery.
• Evaluates the patient’s progress toward attainment of outcomes, documents observations, nursing interventions, therapeutic measures, multi-systems monitoring data, and other data relevant to the patient’s care in a retrievable form.
• Evaluates one’s own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and relevant statutes and regulations of the system and department policies and maintains current knowledge in nursing practice.
• Systematically evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice, integrates ethical principles in all aspects of practice, enhances knowledge of culture and diversity needs for specific populations, collaborates with others in the practice of nursing professional development at the institutional, local, regional and state levels, interacts with and contributes to the professional development of peers and other health care providers through positive role-modeling, fosters peer relationships, and participates in preceptor and/or mentor programs thereby creating an environment for quality practice.
• Collaborates with the patient, family and other health care providers in providing patient care, develops and evaluates standards of care for patients that are evidence-based, identifies changes that should be made in nursing practice using an evidence-based approach and facilitates the initiation of, adoption of, and adaptation to change, participates in and uses evidence-based research to identify strategies for improving nursing practice, and patient outcomes, designs, creates, and applies research by supporting the integration of research into practice, fosters the use of systematic evaluative research with regard to clinical, educational, and managerial data, considers factors related to safety, effectiveness, and cost in planning and delivering patient care by utilizing all resources effectively and efficiently.

Qualifications

• Diploma and ADN hires must Complete a BSN within 60 months of hire OR have 5 or more years of Registered Nurse experience (including direct patient care or indirect RN roles) at the time of hire.
• Required and Associates or Diploma in Nursing.
• All staff who have direct responsibility for the care of stroke patients, please refer to the addendum for stroke specific education requirements - PRIOR TO START.
• Required and Bachelors in nursing (BSN).
• Preferred National certification for unit specific patient population.