RN Operating Room - Nights
Shea Medical Center - 9003 E Shea Blvd, Scottsdale, AZ 85260
$20k Sign-On Bonus available
About the role
The RN's practice is guided by the ANA Standard for Professional Nurse and Code of Ethics. The RN has knowledge of professional nursing principles, practices, concepts, and procedures as applied to the care of the patient population served. The RN records patients' medical history and symptoms, helps perform diagnostic tests and analyze results, operates medical equipment, administers treatment and medications, and assists with patient follow-up and rehabilitation. The RN establishes a care plan or contributes to an existing plan, provides direction to licensed practical nurses and nursing aides, supports efforts to advance clinical knowledge and skills, precepts new hire staff and students, and enhances their own knowledge in nursing management and patient care.
Responsibilities
- Collect health data systematically, prioritizing as determined by the patient’s immediate condition or needs, involving the family.
- Analyze assessment data to determine diagnoses and develop, implement, evaluate, and revise an appropriate patient plan of care that is family-centered, developmentally and age-appropriate, and culturally relevant.
- Identify expected outcomes individualized to the patient and their specific health problems.
- Develop individualized plans of care reflecting current nursing practice that is evidence-based, ensuring continuity of care.
- Implement interventions in the plan of care, including treatments, medications, emergency and resuscitative measures based on standing orders, policies, and procedures.
- Provide nursing care to meet physical, emotional, spiritual, and social-cultural needs of the patient and family using a family-centered approach.
- Evaluate the patient’s progress toward attainment of outcomes.
- Document observations, nursing interventions, therapeutic measures, multi-systems monitoring data, and other relevant data.
- Provide ongoing evaluation of the quality and effectiveness of the care plan to enhance patient outcomes and promote cost-effective, high-quality healthcare.
- Evaluate one’s own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and relevant statutes and regulations.
- Integrate ethical principles in all aspects of practice and enhance knowledge of cultural and diversity needs for specific populations.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary team members in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating patient care delivery.
- Collaborate with the patient, family, and other healthcare providers in providing patient care.
- Develop and evaluate evidence-based standards of care for patients.
- Identify changes in nursing practice using an evidence-based approach and facilitate the initiation, adoption, and adaptation of change.
- Participate in and use evidence-based research to improve nursing practice and patient outcomes.
- Design, create, and apply research supporting the integration of research into practice.
- Consider factors related to safety, effectiveness, and cost in planning and delivering patient care by utilizing all resources effectively and efficiently.
Schedule
- 3x12 Nights: 6:30 PM - 7:00 AM or 10:30 PM - 7:00 AM (4 to 5 nights per week)
Requirements
- Associates or Diploma in Nursing (All Diploma and ADN hires must complete a BSN within 60 months of hire OR have 5 or more years of Registered Nurse experience at the time of hire).
- Bachelors in Nursing (BSN) preferred.
- 1 year of RN experience required for all Float Positions.
- >10 months of med-surg or acute specialty setting experience required.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required.
- State and/or Compact State Licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN) in Arizona upon hire required.
- National certification for unit-specific patient population preferred.
Qualifications
- Required RN Operating Room Experience.
- Experience in stroke-specific education requirements (prior to start) for staff with direct responsibility for the care of stroke patients.