PRE/POST OP RN (FULL-TIME)

Main Function

Provide safe, quality patient care in the Pre-Op & PACU. Accountable for the assessing, planning, implementing, and coordinating patient care from admission to discharge.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Philosophy

• Supports the facility’s ideology, mission, goals, and objectives
• Performs in accordance with the facility’s policies and procedures
• Follows the facility’s standards for ethical business conduct
• Conducts self as a positive role model and team member
• Recognizes patients’ rights and responsibilities and supports them in performance of job duties

2. General

• Participates in facility committees, meetings, in-services, and activities
• Punctual and comply with attendance guidelines
• Gets along well with all employees and respects the rights of other employees
• Demonstrates resourcefulness, independent thinking and seeks additional challenges and opportunities. Seeks to create new methods, techniques, and processes.

3. Communication

• Communicates effectively and professionally with vendors, physicians, coworkers, patients, and visitors
• Interacts with others in a positive, professional, respectful, and considerate manner

4. Financial practices

• Uses facility resources appropriately and avoids wasteful practices
• Reports wasteful practices
• Analyzes work area and makes recommendations for potential cost-effective improvements

5. Compliance program

• Assists in the implementation and maintenance of the organization’s adopted compliance program
• Performs according to established compliance policies and procedures

6. Performance-improvement program

• Contributes to the progress and development of the organization's adopted performance-improvement program, policies, and procedures
• Performs according to established performance-improvement policies and procedures

7. Safety/risk-management program

• Adheres to safety policies and procedures in performing job duties and responsibilities
• Reports observed or suspected safety violations, hazards, and policy/procedure noncompliance to the safety officer or other designated person
• Complete annual education requirements

8. Professional competence

• Participates in continuing education and other learning experiences
• Shares knowledge gained in continuing education with staff
• Maintains membership in relevant professional organizations
• Seeks new learning experiences by accepting challenging opportunities and responsibilities
• Welcomes suggestions and recommendations

9. Regulatory

• Remains current on all applicable state and federal laws, rules, regulations, professional standards and accreditation standards
• Submits required reports on a timely basis
• Develops, interprets and recommends implementation of policies, procedures, regulations, programs and recommended practices to ensure requirements are met

10. Duties

• Assesses patient status on admission to the preop area, the operating room and/or the post-op area, and on a continuing basis
• Provides safe, therapeutic quality care to patients by utilizing the nursing process and nursing diagnosis in a timely manner and by setting appropriate priorities. Coordinates nursing interventions to enhance achievement of expected outcomes and to ensure readiness for discharge. Documents interventions and patients’ responses.
• Ensures provision of patient care in an organized and timely manner.
• Utilizes nursing care standards when planning and implementing patient care.
• Communicates appropriate information regarding patient conditions to those who require the information including surgeons, anesthesia, management, and other staff.
• Safely carries out physician’s orders correctly and promptly, documenting all activities
• Initiates and participates in patient and family education. Assesses learning needs according to patient’s level of understanding and readiness to learn.
• Displays an understanding of each patient’s cognitive, physical, emotional, and chronological maturity in assessment, treatment, and care.
• Takes part in pre and post-op phone calls and communicates any problems to the appropriate person.
• Maintains competencies to function in RN role within specific area.
• Maintain competencies in conscious sedation administration and monitoring of sedated patient. Including airway protection, assessment and support of sedated patients.
• Protect sedated and anesthetized patients by identifying safety hazards such as electrical, equipment, pressure points and by minimizing exposure to maintain privacy and body temperature.
• Expertise in safety principles, asepsis, sterile technique and universal precautions.
• Assess, anticipates and implements appropriate care throughout the surgical process.
• Correlates clinical data with nursing care. Provides the patient with care measures congruent with his/her age, sex, and health status.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail, prioritizes work to meet the changing needs of the department.
• Document and preform nursing care in assigned area based on standards of care and practice, AIASC policies and procedures.
• Adhere to all policies and procedures, including but not limited to standards for confidentiality, Infection Control, safety (OSHA), attendance, punctuality and personal appearance.
• Serve as a role model and mentor, providing direction and leadership to other staff.
• Demonstrates understanding of established emergency procedures for AIASC.
• Demonstrates the ability to make decisions concerning AIASC based problems.
• Participates in the orientation of nursing and ancillary staff as requested.
• Works to achieve and maintain regulatory certifications and accreditation of the AIASC
• Must be willing to flex work hours as needed and/or requested by Manager or Charge Nurse.
• Check and respond to emails in a timely and efficient manner
• Additional duties as assigned such as Education (HealthStreams) and Safety Officer duties

Qualifications

• Cooperative work attitude toward co-employees, management, patients, visitors, and physicians
• Ability to promote favorable facility image with physicians, patients, insurance companies, and general public
• Ability to make decisions and solve problems
• Ability to apply and modify the principles, methods and techniques of professional nursing to provide on-going patient care.

Requirements

Education/Certificates/Licensure

• Maintains current State of Florida RN licensure
• Maintains CPR certification for Health Care Providers
• ACLS certification

Experience

• Two years of Pre/Post-Operative experience, preferably in an ambulatory surgery center setting.