Summary: The Registered Nurse – PreOp/PACU is responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, and coordinating patient care through the preoperative and/or postoperative phase of care. Participates with other facility team members to provide optimal patient care and efficient patient flow, taking into consideration the population-specific needs for patients at all stages of life.
Essential Responsibilities will include the following, and other duties may be assigned.
Patient Care Duties.
· Performs professional preoperative nursing care for patients to ensure a caring patient experience.
· Coordinates with other internal or external disciplines that are involved in providing patient care.
· Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates patient care provided by coaching, training, and developing ancillary personnel while documenting findings.
· Evaluates outcomes and adjusts the nursing care plans as necessary in consultation with other nursing staff and physicians. Documents patient care and the response received from the care provided by staff.
· Enhances patient flow by proactively coordinating with other departments for patient care.
· Assures that patient is knowledgeable about the procedures being performed and communicates efficiently with family or support persons.
· Prepares patients for procedures and ensures that surgical sites are marked.
· Administers medication and controls narcotics for patients as ordered by the physician.
· Performs venipuncture as necessary for IV starts.
Patient Recovery Duties:
· Assesses the patient's recovery from sedation and/or anesthesia and makes appropriate judgments for nursing intervention. Recognizes life-threatening arrhythmias and initiates appropriate therapy and/or assures assistance.
· Monitors patient levels of consciousness through communication and appropriate observation of blood pressure, O2 saturation, cardiac and respiratory statuses.
· Prepare patients for discharge with postoperative instructions per orders from physicians and assesses patient readiness for discharge using discharge criteria.
Safety and Infection Control Duties:
· Adheres to established Company 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.
· Responsible for enforcing recommended standards and practices in support of infection control and anticipating breaks in sterilization techniques.
· 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 timely 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.
Administrative Duties:
· Participates as a member of the team to promote a positive working environment and provides backup support when requested or necessary.
· Provides new employee orientations, training courses, and guides new team members on patient transportation and positioning.
· Maintains and reviews inventory levels against procedures scheduled, including inventory on hand.
· Makes suggestions to management for policy and procedure enhancements by conducting research, reviewing results, and presenting recommendations in a clear message.
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
· 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:
o Required: Associates degree from an accredited school of nursing or a Registered Nurse (RN) Diploma.
· Experience:
o Required: Minimum of one to three years related experience in a multi-specialty PREOP/PACU, preferably in a hospital or ambulatory surgery center.
o Required: Completion of an accredited or Sutter Health OR training program.
· Licensure and Certification:
o Required: Advanced Cardiac Life Support – ACLS, Basic Life Support Certification – BLS, Registered Nurse - State Licensure – RN.
· Language Skills: Must possess the ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Writes reports, business correspondences, and procedure manuals. Effectively responds and presents information from questions to managers, groups of managers, clients, customers, or the general public.
· 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.
Work Location: In person
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $75.00 - $93.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
