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 recording observations.
• 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.
• Provides direction to licensed practical nurses and nursing aides regarding patient care and delegates when appropriate.
• Supports efforts to advance clinical knowledge and skills.
• Precepts new hire staff and students.
• Aids staff and students in completing competency skills.
• Continues to enhance knowledge in nursing management and care of patient problems and conditions as required.
• Practices theory-based nursing that is evidence-based utilizing a Shared Governance model for decision-making.
• Has knowledge of stroke symptoms and warning signs, protocols and pathways, and stroke quality indicators.

Requirements

• Education: Degree or Diploma in Nursing. BSN within 60 months of hire or 5+ years of RN experience at the time of hire for stroke-specific care.
• Licenses and Certifications: Registered Nurse (RN) license, Basic Life Support (BLS) certification, and National certification for unit-specific patient population.
• Experience: 1 year RN experience for all Float Positions, 10+ months in med-surg or acute specialty settings.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of how to collect health data systematically and prioritize data collection based on the patient’s immediate condition or needs, involving the family.
• Ability to analyze assessment data to determine diagnoses and utilize nursing diagnoses to develop, implement, evaluate, and revise a patient plan of care that is family-centered, developmentally and age-appropriate, and culturally relevant.
• Ability to develop individualized plans of care that reflect current nursing practice, are evidence-based, provide continuity of care, and are family-centered.
• Ability to implement interventions in the plan of care, initiate treatments, medications, emergency and resuscitative measures based on appropriate utilization of standing orders, policies, and procedures.
• Ability to provide nursing care to meet the physical, emotional, spiritual, and social-cultural needs of the patient and family using a family-centered approach to care delivery.
• Ability to evaluate patient progress toward outcomes, document observations, nursing interventions, therapeutic measures, multi-systems monitoring data, and other relevant data in a retrievable form.
• Ability to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of the care plan to ensure patient outcomes that promote cost-effective high-quality healthcare.
• Ability to enhance 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 healthcare providers through positive role-modeling, fostering peer relationships, and participating in preceptor and/or mentor programs.
• Collaborates with the patient, family, and other healthcare 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, adoption, and adaptation of 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, fostering 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.