Job Description

Registered Nurse Essential Job Functions:

• Provides direct patient care to pediatric through geriatric patient populations.
• Addresses the psychosocial, physical, and general aspects of care related to the surgical environment.
• Ability to interact and respond with various patient behaviors in a therapeutic, gentle and friendly manner
• Communicates reassurances and explanations consistently
• Adapts nursing procedures to meet the needs for treatment of various types of patients
• Identifies physical symptoms and changes and takes appropriate action in a timely manner
• Ability to assess cardiorespiratory systems for changes in patient condition and respond appropriately
• Observes behavioral and physiologic changes due to medications; takes appropriate actions
• Carries out surgical asepsis during treatments and special procedures and uses PPE.
• Uses appropriate techniques for safe administration of medications and parenteral fluids.
• Demonstrates knowledge of anesthetic drugs, actions, and side effects.
• Medicates postoperative patient as needed after pain assessment and evaluation of patient’s condition.
• Counts narcotics at the beginning and end of each day with another nurse, per policy.
• Coordinates and supervises patient care
• Provides education to patient and family regarding care
• Protects patient’s right to privacy
• Sensitive to patient needs
• Maintains composure and appropriately responds to patients in an emergency or physically distressful situation
• Ability to create documentation that meets current standards, policies and procedures and in a timely manner
• Highly motivated and able to work independently
• Follows AORN Standards

Registered Nurse Secondary Job Functions:

• Provides innovative input into the development of the hospital environments and its processes
• Participates in facility performance improvement activities
• Creates and maintains policy and procedures to State and Federal regulations
• Maintains policy and procedures in relation to hospital/ clinic regulations

Specific Nursing Roles at Summit Surgical

OR Circulating Registered Nurse

• Addresses and promotes the physical and mental health of patients by utilizing the nursing process of assessment, planning, intervention and evaluation. Effectively interacts with patients, significant others, and providers while maintaining standards of professional nursing. Assess operating room for equipment functioning and readiness, obtains supplies for individual cases, and ensures all needs of surgical operating team are met. Monitors, positions, and assists patient during procedure.

Additional Essential Job Functions:

• Preps patients for procedures correctly and per policy
• Appropriately & safely positions patients while under care
• Carries out surgical asepsis and safely administers medications for all procedures
• Prepares and cleans operating room suites before and after cases
• Ability to set up for surgical procedures
• Ensures required pre-op information is available before patient is taken to surgery
• Accurately records, handles, and labels specimens

Additional Preferred Experience:

• One (1) year of work experience in the operating room preferred

Requirements

Registered Nurse Essential Qualifications:

• Current Registered Nurse licensure in the State of Kansas
• Current BLS certification
• Minimum of one (1) year work experience
• Current ACLS certification or willing to obtain within three (3) months
• Maintains regulatory requirements and completes annual education requirements
• Attends the required annual education program
• Can interface with computers effectively
• Learns new concepts and procedures quickly
• Excellent organizational skills
• Accuracy
• Ability to manage time and appropriately prioritize tasks and responsibilities
• Ability to communicate effectively and in a professional and courteous manner with co-workers, vendors and other people in contact with
• Punctuality

Lab Requirements:

• Ability to perform lab testing per lab policies and procedures
• Ability to interpret results of test: take appropriate action on test results
• Knowledge of storage, care and use of each specific cartridge
• Knowledge of quality control testing monthly or with each new shipment and proficiency test