Operating Room Registered Nurse

Description

Job Title: Operating Room Registered Nurse

Position Type: Full time

Details: Days / Monday – Friday / No Call / No Holidays

Location: 3025 Dixie Highway, Edgewood, KY 41017

Our mission is to provide exceptional, efficient, and cost effective orthopaedic surgical services to every patient and family we have the privilege to serve.

Supervises and directs patient care in the operating room.

Non-exempt

1.
Philosophy

a) Supports the facility’s ideology, mission, goals, and objectives

b) Performs in accordance with the facility’s policies and procedures

c) Follows the facility’s standards for ethical business conduct

d) Conducts self in a professional manner, and as a positive role model and team member

e) Recognizes patients’ rights and responsibilities and supports them in performance of job duties

f) Respects patient rights to privacy, dignity, and confidentiality

g) Participates in facility committees, meetings, in-services, inventory and activities

h) Maintains professional relationships with management and medical staff

2.
Communication

a) Communicates effectively and professionally with patients, visitors, physicians, and coworkers

b) Interacts with others in a positive, respectful, and considerate manner

3.
Financial practices

a) Uses facility resources appropriately and avoids wasteful practices

b) Reports wasteful practices

c) Analyzes work area and makes recommendations for potential cost-effective improvements

4.
Compliance program

a) Contributes to the progress and development of the organization’s adopted compliance program

b) Performs according to established compliance policies and procedures

5.
Performance-improvement program

a) Contributes to the progress and development of the organization's adopted performance-improvement program

b) Performs according to established performance-improvement policies and procedures

c) Objectively evaluates suggestions, grievances, and processes to identify opportunities to improve performance and quality of care

d) Participates in data collection activities to support the performance-improvement program

6.
Safety/risk-management program

a) Adheres to safety policies and procedures in performing job duties and responsibilities

b) Reports observed or suspected safety violations, hazards, and policy/procedure noncompliance to the safety officer or other designated person

7.
Professional competence

a) Participates in continuing education and other learning experiences

b) Shares knowledge gained in continuing education with staff

c) Maintains membership in relevant professional organizations

d) Seeks new learning experiences by accepting challenging opportunities and responsibilities

e) Participates in teaching programs in the facility for employees and physicians on topics of special interest and topics pertinent to outpatient surgery

f) Researches and submits pertinent articles for review at staff meetings

g) Assists with orientation and training of new personnel and acts as a resource person for problems related to patient care

h) Welcomes suggestions and recommendations

8.
Duties

a) Participates as a team member in support of the total peri-operative process

b) Organizes time, equipment, supplies, and personnel to provide effective and efficient case management

c) Supervises and directs patient care in a single operating room

d) Organizes nursing activities efficiently and effectively

e) Delegates activities appropriate to the abilities of available staff members

f) Considers cost containment by using supplies economically and in effective turnover time

g) Assists with supply, drug, and equipment inventories to maintain stock level and availability

h) Addresses patient needs during admission to the operating room, with attention to requirements specific to the ASC setting

i) Transports patients to the operating room observing policies/procedures, safety requirements, and patient needs

j) Identifies the patient and correct surgical intervention according to policy/procedure and communicates such information to all members of the surgical team

k) Reviews patients’ medical records/needs to plan care with other healthcare team…