RN, OR Circulator-PRN

Are you passionate about healthcare and looking to start the next chapter in your career? Are you interested in a rare opportunity to reopen an established and well-respected hospital in a brand-new facility and provide the service and care to the community that larger institutions don’t? Do you want to work for an employer that values you and offers an award-winning company culture, work-life balance, and opportunities for advancement?

If you answered “yes” to the above, we want to hear from you! We are New Orleans’ premier boutique surgical hospital, and we are looking for talented and experienced candidates to immediately join our team ahead of our upcoming reopening.  

Summary

The Registered Operating Room Nurse will be clinically competent while delivering care to patients utilizing the nursing process of assessment, planning, intervention, implementation and evaluation. RNs will effectively interact with patients, significant others and other health team members while maintaining all standards of professional nursing.

Essential Functions

• Using the nursing process, the RN Circulator manages all the necessary care inside the surgery room, assisting the team in maintaining and creating a comfortable, safe environment for the patient and observing the team from a wide perspective.
• Assess the patient: collect and document on Perioperative Record per policy.
• Plan/implement: set priorities for nursing action in a logical sequence according to patient's needs and formulate a plan of care by the appropriate selection of Nurse Practice Standards. The plan of care is initiated on patient admission based on all aspects of the initial assessment. Plan includes physiological, psychosocial and environmental factors: patient/significant other education and patient discharge planning.
• Evaluate: perform ongoing assessment and revise plan of care based on new data and patient's condition.
• Document patient care, including nursing intervention,
• Uses established techniques in preparing for and assisting with surgical procedures; provides and sets up necessary instruments, supplies and equipment for different types of operations, according to established routines and instructions of the surgeon.
• Maintains thorough technical and working knowledge of the various steps involved in different types of operations in order to anticipate surgeon’s needs and the importance of maintaining an aseptic field.
• As scrub or sterile nurse, sets up operating room with instruments as specifically required for type of operation to be performed; arranges instruments and other articles in specified order on portable table immediately accessible to the surgeon; anticipates surgeon’s needs for instruments, sponges, sutures, suction tubes and other items and hands them to the surgeon in a most expeditious manner; maintains aseptic field.
• When the patient arrives, the circulating nurse verifies the patient's identity and necessary consent forms and then reviews the site and nature of the procedure with the surgeon.
• Assists the anesthetist or anesthesiologist with intubation.
• Places patient in prescribed position to assure access to operative field; adjusts operating table and accessory equipment as may be required; prepares operative area and drapes patient or assists surgeon with draping.
• Observes patient during surgical procedure to detect possible complications and/or breaks in sterile technique; furnishes emergency equipment and supplies to prevent fatality.
• Manages contaminated instruments and supplies during operation procedures to prevent spread of infection.
• During operative procedure, preserves and labels operative specimens for laboratory analysis.
• Provides special equipment and assures proper working order; manipulates such equipment to aid in the efficiency of the surgeon and to avoid hazards to patient.
• Observes progress of surgery; provides additional instruments, supplies or other items as needed.
• Maintains big-picture oversight of the patient's condition.
• Delegates, supervises, and evaluates the activities of other team members while simultaneously executing immediate directives and interventions in urgent or emergent situations.
• After operation, may apply or assist in applying dressings, and transferring patient, from operating room to recovery room.
• Cleans or directs cleaning and sterilization of contaminated instruments, equipment and supplies; cares for and stores delicate surgical instruments; cleans or assists in cleaning operating room areas and caring for and disposing of infectious and soiled linen after conclusion of each operation. Participate in economical utilization of supplies and ensure that equipment is maintained in a clean and safe manner.
• Adheres to administrative system/nursing service policies.
• Complies with specific system/division/unit policy and procedure concerning safety.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Education and Experience

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• 1-year previous experience in an Operating Room.

Required Skills and Certifications

• Current BLS certification.
• Current ACLS certification.
• Current Louisiana Registered Nurse Licensure.