Travel Nurse RN - OR - Operating Room

Position: Travel Nurse RN - OR - Operating Room - $2,366 per week
Amergis Healthcare Staffing, Inc. is seeking a travel nurse RN OR - Operating Room for a travel nursing job in San Marcos, Texas.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: OR - Operating Room

• Discipline: RN

• Duration: 13 weeks

• 40 hours per week

• Shift: 8 hours

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Employment Type:

Travel

Amergis Healthcare Staffing is seeking an Operating Room Nurse responsible for scrubbing and/or circulating duties for operative procedures; department admissions to the operative suite. He/She is responsible to the Nurse Manager and is directly supervised by the RN in the operating rooms to which he/she is assigned.

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates and practices aseptic techniques.

• Adheres to standards and appropriate aseptic techniques, including:
- preoperative hand scrub
- gowning and gloving
- instrumentation and supply set up

• Sets up room for surgical procedures and identifies instrumentation and supplies

• Sets up room quickly and correctly, with minimal supervision

• Pulls correct instruments and supplies

• When scrubbed, sets up back table and Mayo stand according to facility's procedures.

• Demonstrates ability to concentrate and quickly respond appropriately to directions given by circulating RN or physician(s).

• A circulating nurse, assists the scrubbed team with additional staff, supplies, procedures, and other services.

• Participates in all instrument, sponge counts, and other counts as designated by the facility's policies and procedures; to maintain a safe patient care environment.

• Maintains and updates surgeon's procedure preference cards as changes occur.

• Maintains supplies in assigned operating room.

• Fosters a cooperative effort in meeting the goals of nursing and sharing the workload.

• Communicates a positive and caring attitude toward the area, peers, staff, patients, and other contacts; demonstrates flexibility and adaptability in meeting the needs of client facilities, patients, and staff.

• Seeks guidance, direction, and assistance when needed.

• Identifies own limitations and seeks guidance as required.

• Recognizes and utilizes appropriate lines of communication.

• Accurately communicates needs to co-workers and supervision.

• Maintains confidentiality of all patients, and hospital-related communications/documents.

• Maintains clinical skills and expands knowledge base through participation in continuous education programs.

• Assumes responsibility for self-development.

• Seeks to obtain a level 3 proficiency in his/her area(s) of clinical expertise.

• Keeps informed of changes in practice through organizational participation and/or reading current literature.

• Uses knowledge and practice in accordance with:
- standards of patient care
- The Joint Commission, State, and local laws
- Patient's Bill of Rights
- Amergis' nursing and client facility policies and procedures
- professional standards

• Documents activities according to facility policies and procedures.

• Represents the Surgical Services as a responsible paraprofessional in appearance and demeanor.

• After accepting a facility assignment, arrives at the facility before the schedules shift starts to sign in at the nursing office and report to the unit on time for orientation and/or report.
- Work assignments are completed during the assigned shift, unless overtime is approved by the Area or Facility Supervisor
- Dress/attire worn to the hospital is clean and professional. Wears and uses designated surgical attire appropriately.
- Serves as a role model through the support of other facility and Amergis co-workers, adheres to specific facility/unit standards.

Minimum Requirements:

• Current licensure as a Registered Nurse in the state in which he/she practices

• Documentation and confirmation of one year of operating room clinical experience in an acute care hospital within the last three years preferred

• Current BLS card.

• Full command of the English language, both verbal and written.

• Physical dexterity and perceptive acuity (e.g., visual, hearing) to satisfactorily perform all required duties

• Current Health Certificate (if applicable)

• Current PPD or Chest X-Ray

• Successful completion of the Amergis Staffing Solutions testing process.
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