What are the responsibilities and job description for the Staff Nurse OR (PRN) position at Methodist Mansfield ASC?
Job Title: Staff Nurse OR (PRN)
Essential Functions:
The delivery of patient care through the framework of the nursing process (assessment, diagnosis
and patient outcome) in the preoperative, interoperative and postoperative phase of the surgical
patient.
Supervision Received: Supervisor of Clinical Services
Education/ Experience
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
- Current Registered Nurse License
- Current American Heart Assn. BLS and ACLS certifications
Benefits:
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- Health Savings Account with an employer contribution
- Life Insurance
- PTO
- 401(k) retirement plan with a company match
- And more!
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Demonstrates current, comprehensive professional knowledge and skills in conformance
Rights and JCAHO regulations, Standards for Nursing Care and the Nurse Practice Act.
- Assesses physiological and psychosocial health status of patient.
- Assesses pain per policy.
- Completes patient history.
- Verbally reports pertinent information to appropriate staff to provide continuity of care.
- Legibly documents information in patient record and signs record using appropriate
- Assesses level of understanding and expectations of care.
- Identifies desired patient outcomes.
- Establishes nursing diagnosis.
- Establishes patient/family goals that are mutually acceptable.
- Formulates Plan of Care for the patient.
- Implements nursing care plans tailored to patient/family needs
- Demonstrates ability to assess and problem solve.
- Responds to emergencies.
- Practices within legal and ethical guidelines (Nurse Practice Act, legal statutes, ANA
- Performs nursing actions that demonstrate accountability (demonstrates flexibility,
- Continually adjusts care plan based on patient/family data.
- Demonstrates proper preoperative process – communication/report.
- Demonstrates proper procedure and documentation for surgical case counting.
- Demonstrates proper aseptic technique
- Demonstrates efficient turnover time.
- Demonstrates proper technique for obtaining blood products.
- Demonstrates proper patient identification verification per policy.
- Demonstrates proper surgical site identification and marking per policy.
- Anticipates surgeon’s needs during surgical procedure.
- Participates in a Profession Nursing Organization
- Standing: 66-100%
- Sitting: 0-33%
- Walking: 66-100%
- Lifting: 0-50lbs. as needed
- Carrying: 0-25lbs. as needed
- Pushing: 0-400lbs. on wheels with assistance as needed
- Climbing: 1-5 flights of stairs as necessary
- Pulling: As necessary while providing patient care
- Bending: Proper bending necessary to pick things off the floor
- Squatting: As necessary while providing care
- Rotating: Shoulders as necessary
- Kneeling: If necessary while providing patient care
- Reaching: overhead while providing patient care
- General comments: Visual and hearing senses must be adequate to provide patient care.
- Inside 95-100%
- Outside 0-5%
- Temperature 30F-115F
- Fumes: Occasional
- Dust: Occasional
- Gases: None
- Odors: Occasional
- Mist: Occasional
- Radiation: Occasional
- Noise or Vibrations: Biomedical equipment, needles, sharps, copy machine, phones,
- Hazards: Occasional contact with communicable disease, electrical equipment, etc.
- Personal Protective Equipment: Provided (gowns, gloves, masks, head cover).
Experience
Required- 2 year(s): OR
Education
Required- Associates or better in Nursing
Licenses & Certifications
Required- Pediatric Adv Life Sup
- Advanced Cardiac Life Sup
- Basic Life Support
Behaviors
Required- Detail Oriented: Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well
- Enthusiastic: Shows intense and eager enjoyment and interest
- Team Player: Works well as a member of a group
- Dedicated: Devoted to a task or purpose with loyalty or integrity
Motivations
Required- Self-Starter: Inspired to perform without outside help
- Flexibility: Inspired to perform well when granted the ability to set your own schedule and goals
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