OR Circulating Nurse - PRN
Location: Hammond, Louisiana
Description: CYPRESS POINTE SURGICAL HOSPITAL is at present recruited OR Circulating Nurse - PRN right now, this vacancy will be delegated in Louisiana. Detailed specification about this vacancy opportunity please give attention to these descriptions.
GENERAL SUMMARY
Assist the O.R. Manager in the operations of the unit. Serves as a liaison between surgeons, anesthesiologists, O.R. Manager and staff. Assists in scheduling to insure quality care. Res ponsible for the smooth and uneventful intraoperative care.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Utilizes assessment skills and tools to identify problems, needs and intervention.
- Recognizes patient's and family's need for instructions and initiates appropriate action.
- Sets priorities for action, based on problem-solving process, common sense, and meeting patient care priorities.
- Recognizes and responds appropriately to signs, symptoms of health threatening changes and reports abnormal results of diagnostic studies to appropriate physician.
- Utilizes work assignment to develop special abilities of individuals and meet special needs of patients/significant others.
- Participates in reviewing and revising quality assurance improvement criteria and/or standards of care.
Directing Staff
- Assists OR manager in operations of the unit.
- Makes daily staff assignments directed towards developing individu al abilities and meeting patient needs.
- Assists in scheduling staff to insure quality care:
- Makes adjustments in assignments based on call-ins.
- Coordinates breaks and lunches as necessary.
- Makes assignments for the next day.
- Acts as a resource person for staff development.
- Demonstrates leadership as a role model.
- Coordinates orientation of new personnel.
- Coordinates flow of procedures to facilitate efficient use of operating rooms and staff.
Clinical Skills
- Completes unit specific Nurse Competency Checklist on a yearly basis.
- Obtains a medical history through interview of patient or family members with pertinent information documented and communicated to surgeon and/or Anesthesiologist.
- Administers parenteral therapy and blood and blood products according to Policy.
- Administers medications according to CPSH Policy.
- Carries out physician's orders accurately, clarifying unclear orders.
- Performs treatments and procedures according to CPSH Policy.
- Cost effectively maintains adequate supplies and equipment in appropriate working condition.
- Initiates and carries out appropriate emergency procedures.
- Initiates nurse-physician communication as appropriate.
- Maintains a clean, safe, and quite environment for patients, as well as other personnel.
- Utilizes sound nursing judgment as evidence by ability to provide rationale for decisions made.
- Demonstrates skills in organization: Accurately anticipates needs of surgical team by timely availability of needed supplies and equipment.
- Provides for patient privacy and confidentiality at all times, allows patient dignity to be maintained.
- Recognizes potential benefits of selected new products and discusses with OR manager possible acquisition for use.
- Documents, in writing the specific actions during codes and conveys this information to O.R. Manger.
- Serves as resource person for updating or improving patient care practices.
- Assists in facilitating patient-physician-nurse communication process.
- Serves as preceptor in orientation of new employees.
- Assumes leadership role, acting as a role model especially in crisis situations.
- Assists in development and implementation of departmental goals.
- Possesses a working knowledge of equipment used in the O.R., as demonstrated by completing competency checklist.
- Assists in maintenance, care, and cleanliness of supplies - cost effectively maintains adequate supplies and equipment in appropriate working condition with proper documentation.
- Reports damaged instruments to the OR manager and follows proper procedure for damaged instruments and/or equipment.
- Assist the OR manager in obtaining the supplies, equipment, etc. necessary to do the scheduled cases.
- Other duties as ass igned/ required.
The above statements are only meant to be a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents of this job. The incumbents may be requested to perform job related tasks other than those stated in this description.
EDUCATION/QUALIFICATIONS
- Graduation from an accredited nursing program and at least one (2) year of recent
- Experience as an O.R. Nurse (RN)
- Possession of a valid Registered Nurse license issued by the Louisiana State Board of Nursing
- Current BLS, PALS, ACLS through the American Heart Association
Job Type: Temporary
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This vacancy starts available on: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 19:36:06 GMT