Travel OR RN Circulator - $3,025 per week

About the role

Modern Healthcare Solutions is seeking a travel nurse RN OR - Operating Room for a travel nursing job in Hermiston, Oregon. Start date: ASAP. Duration: 13 weeks. Hours: 40 hours per week. Shift: 8 hours, days. Employment type: Travel.

Responsibilities

• Accept responsibility for direction, control, and planning of activities.
• Make evaluations and decisions based on measurable or verifiable criteria.
• Work independently.
• Implement the plan of care by:
  • Protecting the patient from injury caused by extraneous objects, as well as chemical, electrical, laser, mechanical, and thermal sources.
  • Performing accounting procedures to prevent unintended retained surgical items.
  • Ensuring the correct site, side, and level for procedures.
  • Managing patient specimens according to organizational policy and procedures.
  • Communicating the patient's status to relevant parties throughout the continuum of care.
  • Administering medications safely and accurately.
  • Maintaining the patient's wound and tissue perfusion at or above baseline levels.
  • Ensuring the status of the patient’s physiological systems are maintained at or above baseline levels.
  • Protecting the patient from surgical site infections.
  • Safeguarding the patient's rights, dignity, and privacy.
  • Providing age-specific, culturally competent, ethical care within legal standards of practice.
  • Delivering consistent care regardless of setting.
  • Document nursing care accurately, completely, and legibly.
  • Collaborate effectively with other disciplines as applicable.
  • Utilize problem-solving and conflict resolution skills to foster effective work relationships with team members.
  • Maintain required competencies.
  • Pursue professional growth and participate in professional organizations.
  • Act as a patient advocate while maintaining privacy and confidentiality of individuals and health information.
  • Support the organization's mission, vision, values, policies, and procedures.
  • Participate in required education for relevant programs as applicable to the position.
  • Float to other departments where qualified to perform patient care before core staff is floated.
  • Perform other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Education Required: Associate of Science in Nursing. Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in Nursing.
• Licenses/Certifications/Registrations Required: Current RN license in the state, BLS, ACLS, PALS Certification, TNCC.
• Preferred: CNOR, Peri-op 101, CRASE training (required if travel assignment exceeds 6 months).
• Experience Required: None.
• Preferred: Previous RN circulator experience, completion of Peri-op 101 course, scrub experience.