Operating Room Registered Nurse

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Operating Room Registered Nurse

Main Function:

2.
Work Quality

1. Philosophy

• Supports the facility’s ideology, mission, goals, and objectives
• Performs in accordance with the facility’s policies and procedures
• Follows the facility’s standards for ethical business conduct
• Recognizes patients’ rights and responsibilities and supports them in performance of job duties
• Participates in facility committees, meetings, in-services, and activities
• Seeks out additional assignments and duties

2. Work Quality

• Performs duties in an accurate and organized manner
• Adheres to policies and procedures in performance of duties
• Ensures knowledge of job and asks questions when unsure
• Completes duties within appropriate time frames
• Performs according to established quality improvement policies and procedures. Makes suggestions to identify opportunities to improve quality of care.
• Participates in data collection activities to support the quality improvement program

3. Personal Attributes

• Shows initiative and dependability including punctuality and attendance
• Displays good judgment
• Cooperates and is flexible
• Follows appropriate dress code presenting a professional image

4. Customer Service

• Fosters a culture of outstanding patient service showing courtesy in interactions with, physicians and co-workers
• Presents good telephone skills
• Responds promptly to patient needs and co-worker requests

5. Communication and Team Work

• Expected to be a positive and responsible team member with a good attitude
• Presents good oral and written communication (documentation) skills
• Promotes effective communication among the facility’s clinical areas, business office, and physician practices

6. Professional Competence

• Participates in continuing education and other learning experiences
• Shares knowledge gained in continuing education with staff
• Maintains membership in relevant professional organizations
• Seeks/accepts new challenging opportunities and responsibilities in a positive manner
• Assists with orientation and training of new personnel and acts as a resource person for problems related to patient care
• Welcomes suggestions and recommendations
• Seeks professional certifications such as CNOR, ONC, RNFA, CAPA, or PAN
• Adheres to safety policies and procedures in performing job duties and responsibilities
• Reports observed or suspected safety violations, hazards, and policy/procedure noncompliance to the Clinical Manager
• Performs according to established compliance policies and procedures

8. Duties

• Participates as a team member in support of the total peri-operative
• Organizes time, equipment, supplies, and personnel to provide effective and efficient case management
• Supervises and directs patient care in a single operating room
• Organizes nursing activities efficiently and effectively
• Delegates activities appropriate to the abilities of available staff members
• Considers cost containment by using supplies economically and in effective turnover time
• Assists with supply, drug, and equipment inventories to maintain stock level and availability
• Addresses patient needs during admission to the operating room, with to requirements specific to the outpatient setting
• Transports patients to the operating room observing policies/procedures, safety requirements, and patient needs
• Identifies the patient and correct surgical intervention according to policy/procedure and communicates such information to all members of the surgical team. Completes “Time Out” per policy and procedures.
• Reviews patients’ medical records/needs to plan care with other healthcare team members
• Provides comfort and reassurance to patient
• Maintains patients’ privacy and dignity
• Explains intra-operative phase of routine procedures and care to the patient
• Performs the circulating nurse’s role and functions following approved operating room procedures to meet the requirements of scheduled procedures
• Prepares operating room according to requirements of patient/procedure to be performed
• Assembles and provides properly functioning equipment, supplies, and instruments before start of procedure and positions and adjusts equipment as required during the procedure
• Anticipates needs of surgical team…