Summary: The Registered Nurse – Operating Room (OR) is responsible for the delivery of safe, effective, and quality patient-family centered care in the OR and PeriOperative services for all patient populations.
Essential Responsibilities will include the following, and other duties may be assigned.
Promote the C.A.R.E.S Standards:
1. Communication;
- Smiles, makes eye contact, and greets others with own name and role.
- Communicates with sincerity, honesty, and respect
- Welcomes the views of others and encourages feedback, questions, and open dialogue
- Assists others to understand and solve their problems
- Is collaborative
2. Accountability;
- Takes ownership in delivering excellent service at all times
- Creates a warm and caring first impression
- Follows procedures, policies, and guidelines
- Is mindful of conserving resources
- Takes responsibility for own actions and demeanor and follows through with commitments
- Acts professionally with everyone— patients, colleagues, vendors, clinicians
- Cares for self so that can best care for others.
3. Respect;
- Contributes to discussions and support organizational decisions.
- Actively listens and speaks clearly without judgment to others.
- Demonstrates pride of ownership by showing warmth and concern, and follows through with commitments
- Does not engage in negative behaviors including gossip, undermining others, and infighting
- Asks others how best to support them
- Speaks positively about MarinHealth and colleagues
- Respect privacy and confidentiality at all times
4. Excellence;
- Takes ownership to consistently improve processes within the role, department/clinic, service area, and throughout MarinHealth®
- Strives every day to offer the best and to improve myself and my work output
- Applies best practices to guide timelines, expectations, and priorities.
- Embraces change and offer suggestions for problem resolution
- Recognizes others for outstanding performance
5. Safety;
- Takes pride in environment by maintaining safe and clean surroundings
- Works safely and creates the best environment for the delivery of quality patient care
- Embraces opportunities to learn from mistakes
- Speaks up for safety
- Patient Care Duties:
- Performs professional intra-operative nursing care for patients to ensure a caring patient experience.
- Coordinates with other internal or external disciplines that are involved in providing patient care.
- Reviews inventory and stock levels of equipment and supplies before any procedures.
- Ensures patient safety and care through the coordination of surgical technologists and surgeons.
- Ensures patient safety through transportation, transferring, and positioning.
- Assists during patient induction and emergence.
- Completes appropriate medical records documentation and responds to patient requests for care.
- Administers medications safely and correctly.
- Communicates the patient’s current status to relevant parties throughout the continuum of care.
- Evaluates outcomes and adjusts nursing care processes as necessary in consultation with other nursing staff and physicians.
- Administers sedation analgesia under the direction of the attending physicians.
- Performs interventions necessary to ensure that the patient’s procedure is performed on the correct site, side, and level and to maintain the patient’s wound and tissue perfusion at or above baseline levels.
- Performs interventions to maintain the status of the patient’s genitourinary, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, endocrine, respiratory, cardiovascular, and neurological systems, as well as fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balances, at or above baseline levels.
- Ensures the patient is at or returned to normothermia at the conclusion of the immediate postoperative period.
- Proactively protects the patient from surgical site infection.
- Follows the Wound Class guidelines to assign the appropriate classification to the type of surgery.
- Assesses the knowledge level of the patient or designated support person.
- Provides education regarding the expected responses to the operative or invasive procedure.
- Involves the patient or designated support person actively in decisions affecting the patient’s perioperative plan of care and rehabilitation process.
- Protects the patient’s rights, dignity, and privacy.
- Provides age-specific, culturally competent, and ethical care within legal standards of practice.
- Provides consistent and comparable care regardless of the setting.
- Assess patients in PreOp and assures all the Safety Checklists have been completed and documented, per policies and procedures.
- Develops an individualized perioperative patient plan of care.
- Safety and Infection Control Duties:
- Adheres to established MSSC and safety requirements and procedures to ensure a safe working environment.
- Strictly adheres to aseptic techniques using a variety of supplies and instruments while actively monitoring the environment to ensure a sterile technique is maintained throughout procedures.
- Enforces recommended standards and practices in support of infection control and anticipating breaks in sterile technique.
- Protects the patient from injury caused by extraneous objects and chemical, electrical, laser, mechanical, and thermal sources.
- Performs accounting procedures to protect the patient from unintended retained surgical items.
- Manages the patient’s specimens according to organizational policy and procedure.
Protects the patient from harm by following and implementing the Patient Safety Check and Universal Protocol Guidelines in the OR and reviewing every line for every patient.
- Ensures procedure safety and success by leading the team responsible for participating actively in the time-out process.
- Actively adheres to standard safety procedures regarding proper personal sanitation and hygiene.
- Completes employee and patient incident documentation in a timely manner while identifying potentially unsafe conditions.
- Demonstrates a complete understanding of established emergency procedures and provides appropriate support.
- Focuses on process improvement by participating in inpatient service and safety process reviews.
Competencies: To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following:
- Leadership – Exhibits confidence in self and others, inspires and motivates others to perform well; effectively influences others' actions and opinions, accepts feedback from others, gives appropriate recognition to others, identifies employees with potential, and invests time and energy in developing talent.
- Strategic Thinking – Focuses on creating a better future for the organization; prioritizes work performed by the level of importance and adds value through the accomplishment of high payoff results. Takes independent actions and calculated risks by looking for and taking advantage of opportunities.
- Cost Management – Controls cost through economical utilization of personnel, materials, and equipment, determines how budgets will be spent to get the work done, and accounts for all decisions and expenditures.
- Job Knowledge and Technical Skills – Thoroughly understands all aspects of the job; upholds company standards of ethical operations by ensuring compliance with all federal, state, and local regulations; possesses the practical hands-on experience, needs some direction, drives to build a knowledge base and improve professional skills continuously.
- Medical Office Environment – Possesses an understanding of a medical office operation's functionality, patient safety, and patient flow while providing optimal patient care and consideration.
- Productivity and Dependability – Meets schedules, deadlines, and productivity standards; completes tasks on time or notifies the appropriate person with an alternate plan, strives to exceed productivity standards by completing work promptly, prioritizes workloads, attains needed resources, and execute a strategy that optimized results.
- Communication – Speaks clearly and persuasively in all situations, listens without interrupting and seeks clarification, responds well to questions, and writes in an informative and professional manner.
- Customer Service – Manages difficult or emotional customer situations; promptly responds to customer needs; solicits customer feedback to improve service; promptly responds to requests for service and assistance; meets commitments.
- Teamwork – Works effectively with others; balances the team's needs and those of the individual; gives and welcomes feedback.
- Judgment and Problem Solving – Gathers and analyzes information skillfully using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems; identifies and resolves issues promptly; considers relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one; uses reason when dealing with emotional topics.
- Professionalism and Interpersonal Skills – Treats others with respect and consideration regardless of their status or position, tactfully approaches others, focuses on solving conflict without blame, maintains confidentiality, accepts responsibility for own actions, follows through on commitments, remains open to others' ideas and tries new things.
- Adaptability – Adapts to changes in the work environment; manages competing demands; changes approach or method to best fit the situation, copes well with frequent changes, delays, or unexpected events.
- Stress Management – Reacts and responds well under pressure; keeps emotions under control; successfully copes with demands from superiors, subordinates, and peers.
- Initiative – Displays the desire to volunteer readily and undertake self-development activities by seeking increased responsibilities, sets and achieves challenging goals while demonstrating persistence in overcoming obstacles, measures self against excellence standards while asking for and offering help when needed.
- Innovation – Displays original thinking and creativity, meets challenges with resourcefulness, generates suggestions for improving work, develops innovative approaches and ideas, presents ideas and information in a manner that gets others' attention
Qualifications: Successful individuals who perform the responsibilities of this position must perform their essential duties satisfactorily. The requirements listed below represent the knowledge, skill, and abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to assist individuals with disabilities in performing the functions required of the position.
Education:
- Required: Degree from an accredited school of nursing or a Registered Nurse (RN) Diploma.
- Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in Nursing.
Experience:
- Required: Three years of experience in perioperative services, with PeriOp 101 training or equivalent.
- Required: Completion of an accredited O.R. training program.
Licensure and Certification:
- Required: Advanced Cardiac Life Support – ACLS
- Basic Life Support Certification – BLS
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support certification– (PALS)
- Registered Nurse - State Licensure – RN.
- Preferred: Certified Nurse, Operating Room (CNOR) certification.
Language Skills: Must possess the ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Writes routine reports and correspondence and speaks effectively before groups of customers or employees of the organization.
Mathematical Skills: Must have the ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume while applying concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
Reasoning Ability: Must possess the ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions while interpreting a wide variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
Healthcare Business Acumen: Must have the knowledge and be well-versed in the nuances and complexities of the business aspects of healthcare, including Protected Health Information (PHI) procedures and safeguarding other identifiable information regarding patient data.
Computer Skills: Must have knowledge of Internet software, Spreadsheet software, and Word Processing software.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: $75.00 - $100.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
