Registered Nurse; RN - Surgery

Position: Registered Nurse (RN) - Surgery (OR)
Location: Roaring Spring

Registered Nurse (RN) - OR (Nason Medical Center)
Job Type: Full Time | M-F, 12-8:30 PM;
No weekday call; but the RN would be in the rotation for weekend call, about once every 7-8 weekends.

Sign-on Bonus:
Up to $20,000

Your experience matters

Conemaugh Nason Medical Center is part of Lifepoint Health, a diversified healthcare delivery network with facilities coast to coast. We are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well-being so you can provide exceptional care to others. As a part-time RN - OR joining our team, you‘re embracing a vital mission dedicated to making communities healthier ®. Join us on this meaningful journey where your skills, compassion and dedication will make a remarkable difference in the lives of those we serve.

More about our team

Very busy Operating Room - General Surgery, Orthopedics, Urology.

How you‘ll contribute

A part-time RN OR who excels in this role:

• Perform interventions necessary to ensure that the patient‘s procedure is performed on the correct site, side, and level.

• Perform interventions to maintain the patient‘s wound and tissue perfusion at or above baseline levels.

• Perform interventions to maintain the status of the patient‘s genitourinary, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, endocrine, respiratory, cardiovascular and neurological systems and fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balances at or above baseline levels.

• Perform interventions to ensure the patient is at or returned to normothermia at the conclusion of the immediate postoperative period.

• Perform interventions to protect the patient from surgical site infection.

• Develop an individualized perioperative patient plan of care.

• Protect the patient from injury caused by extraneous objects and chemical, electrical, laser, mechanical and thermal sources.

• Documents patient care given accurately and completely.

• Act as a patient advocate and maintain privacy and confidentiality of individuals and health information.

• Provide consistent and comparable care regardless of the setting.

• Perform accounting procedures to protect the patient from unintended retained surgical items.

• Transfer care as applicable - use handoffs for reporting aids

• Involve the patient or designated support person actively in decisions affecting his or her perioperative plan of care and the rehabilitation process.

• Manage the patient‘s specimens according to organizational policy and procedures.

• Maintain required competencies.

• Assess patients at intervals as stated in policies and procedures.

• Communicate the patient‘s current status to relevant parties throughout the continuum of care.

• Administer medications safely and correctly.

• Evaluate the patient‘s progress toward attaining outcomes.

• Assess the knowledge level of the patient or designated support person.

• Provide education regarding the expected psychosocial response, nutritional management, medication management, pain management, wound management, and expected responses to the operative or invasive procedure.

• Provide age-specific, culturally competent, ethical care within legal standards of practice.

• Participate in quality review and performance improvement projects.

• Use problem-solving and conflict resolution skills to foster effective work relationships with team members.

Qualifications - External

Why join us
We believe that investing in our employees is the first step to providing excellent patient care. In addition to your base compensation, this position also offers:

• Comprehensive Benefits:
Multiple levels of medical, dental and vision coverage - with medical plans starting at just $10 per pay period - tailored benefit options for part-time and PRN employees, and more.

• Financial Protection & PTO:
Life, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, short- and long-term disability, paid family leave and paid time off.

• Financial & Career Growth:
Higher education and certification tuition assistance, loan assistance and 401(k) retirement package and company match.

• Employee Well-being:
Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services and discount programs).

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