Circulating Registered Nurse Operating Room
The Surgical Nurse is a Registered Professional Nurse who, under the immediate supervision of the Director of Surgical Services/Nurse Manager and Charge RN, is responsible for the safety of the patient while in the operating area and assists with the supervision of nonprofessional personnel in the area. By assessment of the individual patient and procedure, the nurse anticipates the needs of the surgical team and provides such services while maintaining an aseptic and safe environment.
Principal Duties and Accountabilities:
The following is a summary of the major functions of this individual's job. He/she may perform other duties, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below, and specific functions may change from time to time.
Assesses patient’s clinical status
Develops plan of care
Implements patient care
Requirements:
Current RN Licensure in the State of Kentucky
BCLS required
ACLS Required
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
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