Registered Nurse - Operating Room

Description

Are you a Registered Nurse with a passion for providing top-quality care in a fun, fast-paced environment? Look no further than Adventist Surgery Center at National Harbor! Our state-of-the-art facility is seeking a motivated OR Circulator to join our team of dedicated surgeons and staff.

You will be responsible for the delivery of safe, effective and quality patient-family centered care in the Operating Room for all patient populations. You will promote and restores patients’ health by completing the nursing process, collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary team members. The staffing of the Center is based on a teamwork concept. Employees may be cross trained in other clinical areas and may be expected to perform duties other than their normal ones as staffing and patient needs change.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Promotes the mission, vision and values of the organization.
• Adhering to principles of Universal Precautions. Maintains confidentiality of patient and Center related business.
• Obtains and documents nursing history from patients and/or significant others that is comprehensive of present condition and prior problems.
• Prepares the patient for the procedure and handles the preparation of operating room before the surgery.
• Records vital signs, notes changes, and pursues more-specific investigations as needed. Provide technical assistance to surgeons.
• Performs interventions necessary to ensure that the patient’s procedure is performed on the correct site, side and level. And performs interventions to protect patient from surgical infection.
• Manages the patient’s specimens in the appropriate manner.
• Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.
• Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments, and following Center and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care; including those outlined by the State Nurse Practice Act and other governing agency regulations.
• Prepares, documents, and administers medications safely and correctly. Inventories medications at the beginning and end of the shift; notifies supervisor of discrepancies.
• Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
• Conducts pre- and post-operative education. Provide education regarding the expected psychosocial response, nutritional management, medication and pain management, wound management and expected responses to the operative or invasive procedure.
• Accepts accountability for clinical care of assigned patients including supervision of nonprofessional personnel.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Graduate from an accredited school of nursing.
• Current registered nurse licensure in state of employment.
• Two (2) years perioperative services experience and/or training, preferred.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification.
• Certified Nurse, Operating Room (CNOR) certification, preferred.
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification, depending on patient population, preferred.

Salary : $44 - $50