RN - OR

PR range:

• $65-$67/hr. on w2

Shift Hours: 3x12 All Shifts Schedule Notes: All Shifts Needed - 3x12 2 Years experience Abbreviated compliance will be discussed upon offer.
Job Summary:
-Responsible and accountable for utilizing the nursing process in the provision of patient care.
-Operating Room Nurse is responsible for the planning, execution, conducting and evaluating both direct and indirect nursing care to surgical patients.
-The duties range from preoperative interventions to post-operative assessments that could help meet a patients need throughout the operative care.
Duties and Responsibilities:
-Performs assessment/data collection in an ongoing systematic manner, focusing on physiologic, cognitive, and cultural diversity of the patient.
-Determines mobility, sensory deficits, prostheses use, and skin condition and adjusts plan of care, as appropriate.
-Responsible for supervising and directing patient care in the operating suite while ensuring proper techniques are used.
-Maintains count on sponges, needles and other instruments used in the operating room.
-Collaborates as appropriate with physician and other clinical disciplines in planning interventions to meet patient and family needs.
-Operating Room Nurse also serves as a scrub nurse when necessary.
-Intervenes with proper technique, procedure and safety precautions to meet individual needs of patients and families.
-Prepares the operative area, positions patient adjusts operative table.
-Evaluates and documents patient response to and outcome of care provided and revises plan of care accordingly.
-Ensures all supplies and equipment required are sterile and available for use.
-Observes any changes in the patients condition.
-Works collaboratively with all members of the healthcare team.
-Performs other duties as required.
-Directs other staff when necessary, report any unusual occurrences to surgeon in charge.
-Ensures all medication s are administered and charted.
-Ensures care of specimens are labeled and secured as per policy.
Physical Demands:
-Involves standing, walking, sitting, talking, hearing and bending.
-May include some repetitive motions.
-Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position without compromising patient care.

Required Skills & Experience:
-A minimum of 3+ years experience in an Operating Room setting.
-Ability to effectively communicate in English, both verbally and written.
-Good interpersonal and communication skills.
Preferred Skills & Experience:
-N/A