Operating Room Registered Nurse - Wilmington, United States - MedHQ

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Wilmington, United States

2 weeks ago

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Summary:

RN provides competent and skilled nursing care to patients throughout the three stages of perioperative care by performing the following job responsibilities.


Essential Job Responsibilities with demonstrated competency:

  • Communication of procedures and treatments with patient and significant others to gain cooperation, understanding, and trust and allay apprehension while reaching mutual consent in care approach.
  • Communicates patient education based on individualized needs of the patient, as requested by Physician and/or facility policy to optimize the patients preparation for surgery and continued care upon discharge.
  • Directs care of the patient in accordance with physician orders, including astute assessment of patient responses to medical treatment, therapeutic response to prescribed medications, ability to recognize significant conditions and adverse reactions, and effectively communicates patient's condition, progress, and reaction to drugs, treatments, and or significant change in condition with physician, peers & family.
  • Obtains concurrent vital signs to detect deviations from expected normal values and assesses condition for changing patient status and independently intervenes with appropriate care.
  • Plans and delivers direct patient care based upon evidence based standards, facility policies, procedures, protocols or processes.
  • Maintains awareness of specific needs of patient including but not limited to: comfort; pain relief; anxiety relief; cultural and spiritual diversity; age specificity; protection of tissue and nerve damage by proper body positioning while under anesthesia; prevention of surgical site infection; hydration; thermoregulation; hemodynamics; accurate management of specimens; prevention of URO and protection against burns; and plans interventions accordingly.
  • Verifies patient identification; patients understanding of planned procedure by cross reference to signed consent; correct procedure site, side, & supplies; allergies and special needs before proceeding with planned procedure.
  • Applies experiential knowledge for making decisions specific to efficiencies and cost containment to optimize work flow and protection of business assets.
  • Accurately communicates continuum of direct patient care verbally and in writing of initial assessment of baseline medical and surgical history, allergies and physical conditions and reassessments of treatments, medications administered, and general patient progress.
  • Prepares operating / procedure rooms with specific equipment, sterile instruments and supplies based on physician preferences and the accumulative knowledge based on experiences to optimize work flow, efficiencies and cost containment strategies.
  • Consistently performs hand hygiene practices for the prevention of infection.
  • Concurrently participates in facility quality assessment and performance improvement activities identified by the organization.
  • Other responsibilities may be assigned by management.

Technical Competency:
Abilities, Skill, Knowledge required for success in the work environment:

  • Job knowledge gained through education, experience, and training, including aptitude for remaining current in field of healthcare and the applied advancement of the profession of nursing.
  • Analytical & Problem Solving
  • Synthesizes complex or diverse information; collects and researches necessary information to develop a plan of action; accesses intuition and experience to complement the accumulated and available information before proceeding with plan of action. Ability to develop alternative solutions when the changing information is evident.
  • Access of intellectual intelligence, logic, rational and critical thinking skills when making decisions specific to the planned procedure or specific patient plan of care.
  • Advanced knowledge of anatomy and physiology of the human body and ability to recognize deviations from normal status and make decisions for supportive care with optimal patient outcomes.
  • Advanced aptitude for technical knowledge and appropriate use of equipment, tools, instruments and sophisticated surgical supplies utilized in the planning, preparation and performance of surgical care.
  • Knowledgeable of evidence based practice standards ie: AORN, CDC, OSHA, CMS and other accreditation standards; and demonstrates compliance through demonstrated practices.
  • Astute awareness to rapidly changing conditions in the work environment that requires rapid intervention and appropriate action. Manages competing demands based on thorough investigation.
  • Effectively communicates accounts of direct care in accurate detail to receiving parties and / or context which is legible and timely.
  • Methodically applies rational thought to practices which insure an environment of safety and security for the patient under anesthesia.
  • Consistently applies hand hygiene practices and other aseptic techniques before, during and after administering direc
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