Registered Nurse; RN - Operating Room Seasonal

Registered Nurse (RN) - Surgery Seasonal Position Summary

The Registered Nurse Surgery - Seasonal coordinates and provides safe care to patients utilizing the nursing process of assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation. The nurse directs and coordinates the care of assigned personnel and performs charge duties as assigned.

• Identifies problems, implements appropriate intervention and assesses skin integrity and risk for falls each shift, patient’s response to medications & treatments and completed per unit protocol.
• Medicates for pain per protocol, administers, transcribes, & documents medications as per hospital policy while adhering to hospital P&P related to blood & blood products administration.
• Observes, collects, documents and accurately records data utilizing nursing process, changes in patient status, reports to physicians & documents actions taken, and completes admission & discharge form accurately.
• Develops written plan of care, incorporates teaching component & collaborates with interdisciplinary team, sets priorities for care of patients based on acuity and/or patient preference, coordinates tests, treatments, etc. with ancillary departments, and initiates appropriate Evidenced Based Medicine tool.
• Identifies, explains, and provides adequate information of the learning needs and instructions of patient and/or significant other and/or family through-out hospitalization & discharge according to patient/families ability & willingness to learn & initiates resources to meet these needs on admission.

• State License Required upon hire
• BLS Required upon hire
• ACLS 90 days post hire date or transfer date to obtain
• BLS, ACLS, and PALS must be through the American Heart Association.

Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by an applicant’s or employee’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status or any other legally protected status. Tenet will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship. Tenet complies with federal, state, and/or local laws regarding mandatory vaccination of its workforce.

If you are offered this position and must be vaccinated under any applicable law, you will be required to show proof of full vaccination or obtain an approval of a religious or medical exemption prior to your start date. If you receive an exemption from the vaccination requirement, you will be required to submit to regular testing in accordance with the law.