RN - Operating Room (OR) 10:45-23:15

Patient Care and Support

Establishes positive rapport with patient and family.
Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.
Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals;
provides education to patient, and family in a manner they can understand their condition, medications, and self-care skills, etc.
and provides them ample opportunity to ask questions.
Serves as patient/family advocate.
Maintains continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and continuing needs.
Uses a systematic critical-thinking approach to guide data gathering, assessment, nursing judgment, intervention and evaluation of human responses to actual and potential health problems.
Identifies, synthesizes and interprets sources of data using reasonable clinical judgement to respond to dynamic situations in a timely and effective manner.
Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.
Uses ethical decision making processes and advocates for acceptable patient outcomes.

Clinical Work Quality

Affirms quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards;
measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards;
making or recommending necessary adjustments;
following hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations.
Resolves patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.
Participates in process/performance improvement activities and initiatives utilizing evidence based practice to maintain and/or improve quality of care and safe patient care systems and processes.

Resource Management

Ensures operation of equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements;
following manufacturer's instructions;
troubleshooting malfunctions;
calling for repairs;
maintaining equipment inventories;
evaluating new equipment and techniques.
Appropriately utilizes all nursing supplies and equipment.
Demonstrates effective teamwork skills and maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams by communicating information;
responding to requests;
building rapport;
participating in team problem-solving methods.
Promptly responds to all communication devices in order to meet patient needs.
Assists in performing and documenting environmental checks as required by LMC policy and regulatory agencies.

Professional Responsibilities

Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops;
reviewing professional publications;
establishing personal networks;
participating in professional societies.
Meets or exceeds all LMC requirements for attendance and service expectations.
Maintains required certifications.
Completes yearly safety training and other mandatory classes.
Complies with all annual employee health requirements.
Ensure Hazardous Waste or Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals are discarded, stored, and managed with other compatible waste streams in containers that are properly labeled and closed prior to being shipped offsite for proper disposal.

Benefits

Day ONE medical, dental and life insurance benefits
Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
Employees are eligible for enrollment into the 403(b) match plan day one.
LHI matches dollar for dollar up to 6%.
Employer paid life insurance – equal to 1x salary
Employee may elect supplemental life insurance with low cost premiums up to 3x salary
Adoption assistance
LHI provides its full-time employees employer paid short-term disability and long-term disability coverage after 90 days of eligible employment
Tuition reimbursement
Student loan forgiveness
Equal Opportunity Employer