RN - Operating Room - Delano, CA

Title: RN - Operating Room

Overview:

• Job Category: Acute - Nursing - Local
• Skills: Two years of the following experience is required: Scrub and circulating experience IV insertion and phlebotomy skill conscious sedation experience
• Education: RN License - required Primary Source Verification - required AHA BLS - required AHA ACLS - required IV Certification - required AORN - preferred
• Certifications & Licenses: IV Certification - RN License

Under the general supervision of the Clinical Coordinator and Director of Surgical Services, is responsible for the delivery of safe, effective and quality patient/family centered care in Surgical Services.

Responsibilities:

Clinical Competency:

• Assesses patients at intervals and communicates current status through the continuum of care
• Protects patient from injury caused by chemical, electrical, positioning, heat and/or extraneous objects
• Performs count procedure to protect patient from unintended retained foreign objects.
• Performs "time out" procedure for every patient to ensure correct side, site and level prior to procedure Manages patient specimen according to hospital policy
• Administers medications appropriately
• Performs interventions to maintain body systems, fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balances, wound and tissue perfusion at or above baseline
• Performs interventions to ensure patient is at or returned to normothermia at the conclusion of procedure
• Protects the patient from infection using handwashing and aseptic technique
• Transfers care using hospital approved handoff
• Documents nursing care consistently, timely, and without omissions
• Delegates tasks as appropriate according to the state Nurse Practice Act and job descriptions
• Identifies and acts appropriately to an OR emergency situation. - May have to lift more than 25 pounds

Patient Advocacy:

• Protects the patient's rights, dignity, and privacy - Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families
• Develops and/or implements and maintains an individualized plan of care, including developmental and cultural needs
• Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals; teaching patient, friends, and family to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills; answering questions
• Resolves patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies
• Utilize appropriate resources for non-English speaking patients, hearing and sight impaired individuals, and/or healthcare illiteracy
• Takes proactive steps to recognize and report suspected abuse to your supervisor including child, geriatric, sexual, and spousal abuse

Quality:

• Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments
• Follows hospital and nursing division's mission, philosophies and standards of care
• Participates in quality review and performance improvement projects

Professionalism:

• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; and/or participating in professional societies
• Demonstrates the accountability as a health care professional by recognizing each practitioner is individually responsible for his/her actions