Registered Nurse, Perioperative Services Float, 32 - Gardner, United States - Heywood Hospital
Description
Overview:
You Matter Here
Heywood Healthcare values our employees We offer competitive wages, great benefits and generous earned time off. Come work where you will matter
Hours: 32 Hours, days/evenings, Mondays-Fridays, Flex hours, Call per rotation which does include weekends
Responsibilities:
Essential Functions
- Assesses (and reassesses), plans, implements, and evaluates nursing interventions/plans of care/patient goals.
- Provides patient care based on standards of care, standards of practice, protocols, and established policies and procedures.
- Respects each patient as an individual; provides care that fosters the patient's sense of dignity and positive selfregard.
- Provides patient/family teaching based on identified learning needs, readiness to learn, and barriers to learning.
- Collaboratively plans and prepares patient/family for discharge incorporating support systems/resources as necessary.
- Appropriately delegates and supervises nursing interventions performed by others.
- Appropriately prioritizes patient care (e.g. seeks assistance as needed from appropriate resources, reassigns personnel as necessary, recognizes need for emergency intervention, etc.).
- Provides thorough, timely, and accurate documentation of all pertinent data, therapeutic interventions and patient responses according to established standards.
- Provides timely and thorough report on assigned patients to other health care team members to ensure integration of services and continuity of patient care.
- Promotes learning for colleagues and self (e.g. functions as preceptor, instructor, trainer, attends professional development programs, etc.).
- Proactively identifies risk to patient safety and identifies opportunities to reduce medical/health care errors (i.e. appropriate reporting of errors/incidents).
- Identifies ethical issues in care and develops plan to address.
- Safely administers medications and intravenous therapy in accordance with physician's orders, protocols, policies and procedures.
- Assesses patient pain level upon admission and as necessary, depending upon diagnosis utilizing the numerical pain scale.
- Reassesses effectiveness of pain control and notifies physicians as needed, as well as, documents assessment and patients' response to medication.
- Responsible for obtaining supporting information and completing required documentation related to medication reconciliation for use by the Attending MD.
- Performs preadmission testing on Surgical Day Care patients.
- Performs nursing assessment and coordinates and performs ancillary testing for patients undergoing day surgery including performing blood draws and EKG's.
- Reviews preoperative orders and consults with the surgeon and/or anesthesiologist as necessary to assure appropriate tests are ordered per guidelines.
- Reviews test results, checks for abnormal results and communicates abnormalities to the surgeon, anesthesiologist and/or primary physician prior to surgery.
- Reviews preoperative chart for completeness verifying that all paperwork is present and complete preoperatively, such as consent form, H&P, and lab results.
- Provides emotional support to patients undergoing a change in body image and/or activity level due to surgery.
- Initiates and documents postoperative phone calls to SDC patients.
- Safely administers intravenous therapy to support the patients' treatment plan.
- Initiates and administers IV's, without errors or complications, in accordance with physician orders and nursing policy and procedure.
- Observes and documents patients' response to intravenous therapy.
- Continuously monitors post operative patients to ensure safety while recovering from anesthesia.
- Monitors and observes patients during the recovery phase of general or regional anesthesia.
- Monitors for potential problems/complications immediately post operatively, giving special attention to oxygenation, ventilation, circulation and temperature.
- Supports the perioperative plan of care through implementation of the recovery plan of care for the patient.
- Demonstrates knowledge of dosage, action, use and side effects of medications commonly used during anesthesia.
- Checks patient dressing, is alert for signs of unusual bleeding and administers ice packs PRN.
- Provides communication to all team members to ensure continuum of patient care during the perioperative process.
- Provides a comprehensive patient summary to the staff accepting the patient in transfer or providing temporary coverage.
- Collaborates with surgeons, anesthesiologists and nursing staff to provide continuum of care during perioperative process.
- Safely administers blood and blood products to replace loss during surgery.
- Administers and monitors patients receiving blood and blood products as well as observes and documents patients' response to blood transfusions.
- Documents, accurately and thoroughly, blood administration according to nursing policy and proc
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