Staff RN - Operating Room FT Nights (Wed.Th.Fri)

Core Competencies

• Adheres to infection prevention guidelines
• Adheres to policies, procedures, and standards of practice to deliver safe and optimal care
• Affirms patient history, physiological, and psychosocial status
• Communicates with the patient, family, medical staff and others during the continuum of care
• Complies with Joint Commission’s national patient safety goals
• Complies with organizational quality dashboard/benchmarking goals
• Interprets common variables affecting patient care and follows reporting process
• Maintains regulatory compliance consistent with quality standards and ethical obligations of the profession
• Participates in activities in alignment with the Magnet Model
• Participates in organizational activities
• Participates in Peer Review
• Participates in professional development activities

Department Specific Competencies

• Environmental Management Safety - Monitors and manipulates the physical environment to promote safety.
• Environmental Management: Worker Safety - Monitors and manipulates the workset environment to promote safety and health of workers.
• Increases surveillance of worksite to reduce risk of fires.
• Latex Precautions - Reduces the risk of a systemic reaction to latex.
• Malignant Hyperthermia Precautions - Prevents or reduces hyper metabolic responses to pharmacologic agents used during surgery.
• Applies to pneumatic tourniquet, while minimizing the potential for patient injury from use of the device.
• Prevents nosocomial infection in the operating room.
• Aids the surgeon with operative procedures and care of the surgical patient.
• Moves the patient or body part to promote surgical exposure while reducing the risk of discomfort and complications.
• Minimizes the potential for iatrogenic injury to the patient related to a procedure.
• Attains and or maintains body temperature within normal range.
• Minimizes apprehension, dread, foreboding or uneasiness related to an unidentified source of anticipated danger.
• Arranges to be with another during a time of need.
• Provides comfort and communication through purposeful tactile contact.
• Determines the effectiveness of a new product or equipment.
• Ensures acquisition and maintenance of appropriate items for providing patient care.
• Obtains, prepares, and preserves specimen for a laboratory test.
• Physician support - Collaboration with physicians to provide quality patient care.
• Collaborates with attending physicians and consultants to provide optimal quality patient care treatments.