Specialty Registered Nurse - ENT Surgery - FT - Day

Position Status

Full time
Shift: First Shift (Days - Less than 12 hours per shift)
(United States of America)
Hours Per Week: 40

A Brief Overview

Specialty Registered Nurse assumes responsibility and accountability for a group of patients for a designated time frame and provides care to these patients through the therapeutic use of self, the nursing process, the environment/instrumentation, and other health care team members. These nurses work in ambulatory settings administering high-risk medications and/or sedations. These nurses also float to the hospital.

Perioperative Nursing

Perioperative nursing is a specialty within the nursing profession that encompasses the care of individuals across the life span who are undergoing a surgical procedure or procedure requiring anesthesia. Perioperative nursing incorporates the pre-procedure care, intraoperative and acute post-operative care. The Perioperative nurse will use a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to patient care. Perioperative nursing can range from routine, elective procedures to highly complex procedures to trauma. Perioperative nurses have adapted the nursing process to include strict adherence to the surgical safety checklists, sterility, surgical counts and post-operative airway, pain and nausea management. Perioperative nurses will educate patients about post-operative care management and provide same day discharge instructions.

Education & Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Bachelor's of Science in Nursing (BSN)
• Preferred Experience: Experience in a clinic setting. Experience in an operating room.

Licenses and Certifications

• Registered Nurse - KSBN
• Basic Life Support - BLS RQI
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support - ACLS
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support - PALS

What You Will Do

• Provides direct patient care as defined within the scope of the state’s nurse practice act.
• Performs assessment/data collection in an ongoing and systematic manner, focusing on physiological and cognitive status.
• Administers prescribed medications, infusions, and/or treatments in accordance with nursing standards.
• Implements care in a knowledgeable, skillful, consistent manner, while promoting the continuum of care.
• Formulates a prioritized and goal directed plan of care, which is based on patient’s presenting problems and projected outcomes.
• Functions to establish priorities of patient care based on essential patient needs and available unit resources of time, personnel, equipment and supplies.
• Prepares equipment and aids provider during treatment, examination and testing of patients.
• Evaluates the effectiveness of the health care process (self, systems, environment, and instrumentation) in meeting outcomes.
• Observes, records, and reports patient’s condition and reaction to drugs and treatments to provider.
• Documents in patient and department records in a timely, accurate and concise manner according to department standards.
• Maintains and reviews patient records, charts, and other pertinent information.
• Compiles tests and examination results.
• Evaluates the patient’s progress towards achieving outcomes.
• Performs efficiently in emergency patient situations following established standards of care.
• Practices effective problem identification and resolution as a method of sound decision making.
• Greets patients and prepares them for provider examination.
• Collects patient history information.
• Instructs patients in collection of samples and tests.
• Triorsgues and refers incoming telephone calls.
• Instructs patient and family regarding medications and treatment instructions.
• Participates in system wide/department patient care quality improvement activities as well as standards development.
• Participates actively in clinical education activities, including orientation of new employees and teaching student nurses.
• Participates in nursing research activities.
• Participates in development and attainment of system wide/department hospital goals.
• Delegates tasks and duties in the direction and coordination of health care team members, patient care and department activities in accordance with the Kansas State Nurse Practice Act.
• Setseksures validation of knowledge base, skill level and decision making as necessary and assertively seeks guidance in areas of question.
• Adheres to staffing and scheduling practices.
• Completes surgical safety checklists.
• Completes preoperative care and tasks according to the preprocedure orders and safety protocols.
• Utilizes Aldrete Score.
• Educates on postprocedure discharge instructions.

Required for All Jobs

• Complies with all policies, standards, mandatory training and requirements of Stormont Vail Health
• Performs other duties as assigned

Patient Facing Options

• Position is Patient Facing

Remote Work Guidelines

• Workspace is a quiet and distraction-free allowing the ability to comply with all security and privacy standards.
• Stable access to electricity and a minimum of 25mb upload and internet speed.
• Dedicate full attention to the job duties and communication with others during working hours.
• Adhere to break and attendance schedules agreed upon with supervisor.
• Abide by Stormont Vail’s Remote Worker Policy and will review and acknowledge the Remote Work Agreement annually.
• No Remote Work Capability

Physical Demands

• Balancing: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
• Carrying: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
• Climbing (Ladders): Occasionally 1-3 Hours
• Climbing (Stairs): Occasionally 1-3 Hours
• Crawling: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
• Crouching: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
• Eye/Hand/Foot Coordination: Frequently 3-5 Hours
• Feeling: Frequently 3-5 Hours
• Grasping (Fine Motor): Frequently 3-5 Hours
• Grasping (Gross Hand): Frequently 3-5 Hours
• Handling: Frequently 3-5 Hours
• Hearing: Frequently 3-5 Hours
• Kneeling: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
• Lifting: Occasionally 1-3 Hours up to 50 lbs
• Pulling: Occasionally 1-3 Hours up to 25 lbs
• Pushing: Occasionally 1-3 Hours up to 25 lbs
• Reaching (Forward): Occasionally 1-3 Hours up to 25 lbs
• Reaching (Overhead): Occasionally 1-3 Hours up to 25 lbs
• Repetitive Motions: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
• Sitting: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
• Standing: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
• Stooping: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
• Talking: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
• Walking: Occasionally 1-3 Hours

Working Conditions

• Burn: Rarely less than 1 hour
• Chemical: Rarely less than 1 hour
• Combative Patients: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
• Dusts: Rarely less than 1 hour
• Electrical: Rarely less than 1 hour
• Explosive: Rarely less than 1 hour
• Extreme Temperatures: Rarely less than 1 hour
• Infectious Diseases: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
• Mechanical: Rarely less than 1 hour
• Needle Stick: Frequently 3-5 Hours
• Noise/Sounds: Frequently 3-5 Hours
• Other Atmospheric Conditions: Rarely less than 1 hour
• Poor Ventilation, Fumes and/or Gases: Rarely less than 1 hour
• Radiant Energy: Rarely less than 1 hour
• Risk of Exposure to Blood and Body Fluids: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
• Risk of Exposure to Hazardous Drugs: Occasionally 1-3 Hours
• Hazards (other): Rarely less than 1 hour
• Vibration: Rarely less than 1 hour
• Wet and/or Humid: Rarely less than 1 hour

Stormont Vail is an Equal Opportunity Employer

This applies to all aspects of employment practices including hiring, firing, pay, benefits, promotions, lateral movements, job training, and any other terms or conditions of employment. Retaliation is prohibited against any person who files a claim of discrimination, participates in a discrimination investigation, or otherwise opposes an unlawful employment act based upon the above classifications.