RN | Operating Room | Orthopaedic Surgery Center (OSC)

Responsibilities

• Delivers care to patients effectively and safely according to facility policy.
• Teaches the patient and/or significant other(s) about the plan of care.
• Prepares patients and/or significant other(s) to manage their care after discharge.
• Manages the care of simple to complex multi-system patients by using time and resources efficiently.
• Administers medications effectively, efficaciously and safely.
• Gathers data through history taking and physical assessment and interprets data in order to plan and implement interventions to meet patient care needs.
• Develops, evaluates and revises patient's plan of care and nursing actions in response to patient's needs.
• Bases nursing actions by applying principles of purposeful, organized thinking to make sound clinical judgment/decisions.
• Participates and engages in center activities.
• Documents care provided and patient's progress toward attainment of desired outcomes.
• Directs and supervises others (nursing students, orientees, surgical technologists) in the performance of delegated nursing activities.
• Leads the health care team.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Education: Associates Degree (A.D.) or Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (BSN), from an accredited School of Nursing.
• Certification, Registration & Licensure: Certification required to obtain: BCLS and ACLS certification within 3 months of hire. Licensure required: Current New Hampshire State Registered Nurse license.

Qualifications

• Previous OR experience required.

Skills

• Knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the lifespan.
• Ability to interpret data in order to plan and implement interventions to meet patient care needs.
• Ability to make sound clinical judgment/decisions.
• Ability to engage in caring relationships with patient's families and significant others.
• Ability to collaborate with other health care workers.

Benefits

• Surgery Center is open Monday through Friday. No nights, weekends, holidays, or call.
• 4 10 hour shifts Staggered start times.

Pay

• Not specified.

Schedule

• Concord Hospital is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

Physical And Work Requirements

• The physical demands and characteristics of the work environment described here are representative of those that will be encountered by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• The Dictionary of Occupational Titles Material Handling Classification is MEDIUM.
• The employee must regularly lift, carry or push/pull up to 10 pounds, frequently lift, carry or push/pull up to 10 - 25 pounds, and occasionally lift, carry or push/pull up to 20 - 50 pounds.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to hear, and speak.
• The employee is frequently required to bend, and walk.
• The employee is occasionally required to climb, do fine motor, kneel, reach, sit, squat, and stand.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include color vision, depth perception, far vision, near vision, and peripheral vision.
• The employee is frequently exposed to airborne pathogens, bloodborne pathogens, and bodily fluids.
• The employee is occasionally exposed to airborne contaminants, electrical hazards - shock, moving mechanical parts, non-weather related heat or cold, radiation, slippery surfaces, toxic or caustic chemicals, and variable weather conditions.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.