Position Summary:

Provides safe, quality patient care in the Peri-Operative Unit (Pre-Op, Recovery, and Operating Room). Accountable for the assessing, planning, implementing, and coordinating patient care from admission to discharge.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Ensuring a high standard of nursing care to patients in the Hutchinson Ambulatory Surgery Center, working within company policies and procedures and nursing standards
• Assess patient status on admission to the pre-op area, the operating room, and/or the post-op area, on a continuing basis.
• Providing assistance during surgical procedures and ensuring safe working practices
• Setting, monitoring, and maintaining excellent standards of nursing care.
• Safely carries out physicians orders correctly and promptly, documenting all activities
• Maintaining personal contact with patients and relatives, being sensitive to their needs for courtesy, dignity, and privacy and ensuring a friendly environment at all times.
• Maintaining timely and accurate nursing records and ensuring that confidentiality is respected.
• Storing, checking, and administering medication in accordance with established standards and guidelines.
• Working with minimal supervision during surgical procedures, admission and recovery of patients and other related procedures
• Contributing to the local resolution, investigation and follow up action of any informal or formal grievances.
• Takes part in pre and post-op phone calls and communicates any problems to the supervisor.
• Maintain competencies in conscious sedation administration and monitoring of sedated patients, including airway protection, assessment, and support of sedated patients.
• Ensuring the safe discharge of all patients from the Surgical Unit.
• Maintaining a safe and clean environment within the clinical and surgical area in accordance with established standards and regulations.
• Assists anesthesia with set up and tear down of anesthesia and monitoring equipment.
• Solid understanding of safety principles, asepsis, sterile technique and universal precautions.
• Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for professional practice and continued professional growth. Attends all in-services and meetings as appropriate.
• Performs other duties that may be assigned from time to time.

Performance Measures:

• Performs all Essential Job functions and responsibilities.
• Maintains a professional and positive attitude, appearance and relationship with patients and staff.
• Observes facilities guidelines and polices.

Qualifications:

• Experience: Minimum 2 year of experience in an RN related healthcare position.
• Education: Must be a licensed registered nurse (RN) in the state of Kansas.

BLS, ACLS, and PALS are required.

• Other Skills:
  • Ability to care for patients undergoing surgical procedures and to provide technical and nursing assistance during such procedures.
  • Ability to correlate clinical data with nursing care.
  • Ability to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate nursing care according to individual needs.
  • Must demonstrate an understanding of clinical risk.
  • Ability to direct and provide for patient care in emergency situations.
  • Knowledge of EMR system.
  • Must demonstrate consistent professional conduct and meticulous attention to detail.
  • Must possess excellent verbal and written communication as well as excellent interpersonal skills with patients, staff, and other health care professionals.
  • Works to achieve and maintain regulatory certification of the HASC.
  • Must be willing to flex work hours as needed and/or requested by the HASC Supervisor.

Physical Requirements:

• Occasionally lift or carry items weighing up to 25 pounds.
• Requires full range of body motion.
• Requires standing and walking for extensive periods of time.
• Vision and hearing to normal range.
• Exposure to communicable diseases and toxic substances.

This job description may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the job described, and may be amended at any time at the sole