Registered Nurse Circulator-Ambulatory

Job Description

The Surgical Nurse is responsible for planning, implementing and evaluating the patient plan of care within the Pavilion Surgery Center operating room environment. Provides the human, technical and material resources for safe and timely completion of surgery. Contributes to overall unit efficiency, safety, workflow and utilization and assists with the pre‑op and post‑op nursing process.

• Education: See Licensure/Certification/Registration requirements.
• Experience: One (1) year experience in an Operating Room setting.
• Licensure/Certification/Registration: Current license in Minnesota to practice as a Registered Nurse. ACLS, PALS certification within one (1) year of employment and continuously maintained thereafter. BLS Certification with a designation of either BLS Provider or Healthcare Provider from either the American Heart Association or American Red Cross, or Professional Rescuer from the American Red Cross only if issued prior to March 1, 2015, or Military Training Network.

• Education: BSN
• Experience: Two (2) years working experience as a RN in an Operating Room Setting in a circulating capacity (not including clinicals).
• Licensure/Certification/Registration: N/A

Knowledge of current principles, techniques and legal limits of nursing practice; knowledge of anatomy and physiology and physical assessment. Knowledge of customer relations principles.

Ability to communicate effectively with patients, families, OSC personnel and Physicians and establish professional working relationships; ability to function as a team leader, Primary Nurse and role model; ability to accept individual responsibility and accountability for decisions and outcome. Ability to work in stressful situations; to maintain accurate records, write reports, to participate in orientation of new personnel and teaching of students;

to support Outpatient Surgery Center goals and objectives.

Ability to perform basic computer keyboard operations; ability to print or write legibly, to hear, see, and speak English.

Advanced:
Ability to read, analyze, and interpret the most complex documents. Ability to respond effectively to the most sensitive inquiries or complaints.

Intermediate:
Ability to write routine reports, correspondence, or procedures.

Intermediate:
Ability to effectively present information in one‑on‑one, small group situations or before groups of customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

Intermediate:
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals and to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw or interpret bar graphs to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.

Intermediate:
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Skilled at assessment and knowledgeable of growth and development. Provides appropriate care respective to the ages of the patients served per clinical environment.

Prolonged, extensive or considerable standing/walking. Lifts, positions, pushes and/or transfers patients. Considerable reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling and crouching. Lifts up to fifty (50) pounds.

Stand – Continuously Over 2/3 (5.5 – 8 hours)

Walk – Continuously Over 2/3 (5.5 – 8 hours)

Sit – Frequently 1/3 to 2/3 (2.5 – 5.5 hours)

Use hands to finger, handle, or feel – Continuously Over 2/3 (5.5 – 8 hours)

Reach with hands and arms – Continuously Over 2/3 (5.5 – 8 hours)

Stoop, Squat, Kneel, or Crouch – Continuously Over 2/3 (5.5 – 8 hours)

Bending‑repetitive forward – Continuously Over 2/3 (5.5 – 8 hours)

Talk or hear – Continuously Over 2/3 (5.5 – 8 hours)

Up to 10 pounds – Continuously Over 2/3 (5.5 – 8 hours)

Up to 25 pounds – Continuously Over 2/3 (5.5 – 8 hours)

Up to 35 pounds – Frequently 1/3 to 2/3 (2.5 – 5.5 hours)

Up to 50 pounds – Occasionally Under 1/3 (1-2.5 hours)

Typical Noise Level – Moderate noise (examples: business office with computers and printers, light traffic)

Regularly exposed to the risk of blood borne diseases. May be exposed to/occasionally exposed to patient elements. Subject to varying and unpredictable situations. Handles emergency or crisis situations. May perform emergency care.

• Health and dental insurance
• Retirement
• Life insurance
• Disability
• Paid Time Off