Pre Op Post Op & Intra Registered Nurse

Columbia Endoscopy Surgery Center is hiring a Pre Op / Post Op / & Intra RN Registered Nurse!

$15,000 Sign on Bonus available!

 

Welcome to Columbia Endoscopy Surgery Center!

Columbia Endoscopy Surgery Center, a leading surgical facility dedicated to providing high-quality care and service-oriented environment, is seeking a skilled and compassionate Pre Op / Post Op / & Intra RN Registered Nurse to join our team. As a Pre Op / Post Op / & Intra RN The you will provide quality patient care using the nursing process, the medical plan of care, and organizational policies. The Perioperative RN provides safe, effective, and quality patient-family centered care in the perioperative services for patients. The candidate will work in all areas: PreOp, Operating Room and PACU.

Pre Op / Post Op / & Intra RN Registered Nurse at Columbia Endoscopy Surgery Center

The Registered Nurse provides continuity and quality nursing care for all patients, with continual evaluation of the patient's condition to ensure safety, comfort, and privacy at all times. This role includes:

• Providing comprehensive patient care to individuals emerging from general anesthesia and/or sedation.
• Performing assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care for both patients and families in preparation for discharge.
• Assisting physicians as needed with tasks in the procedure rooms, including conscious sedation and utilizing sterile techniques as appropriate.

Qualifications:

• Graduate of an accredited RN School of Nursing
• Active RN license in the state of practice
• BLS and ACLS required (PALS if required by the center)
• 2 years of PACU or Critical Care experience preferred
• Ability to make sound decisions based on nursing judgment
• Strong communication skills (verbal and written)
• Ability to prioritize and organize workload to meet patient and unit needs

PreOp -

• Manage patients’ admission processes to preoperative department
• Assess the status of patients’ health in pre-op and ensure accuracy of identification wristband
• Ensure that operative and informed consents are in order
• Determine the surgeon and procedure being carried out
• Take and record vital statistics of patients to ensure readiness for surgical procedure
• Initiate IVs and ensure that patients are informed about the procedure and attending medical staff

Operating Room - 

• Provides nursing care and service during surgery cases.
• Will be responsible for positioning the patient, prepping the patient, and circulating the case.
• Will be focused on excellent customer service, have the ability to multi-task, the ability to show flexibility in assignments, maintain scrupulous infection control standards, maintain professional competencies and have the ability to work as part of an interdependent multidisciplinary team.

Pre Op / Post Op

• Assess patients’ condition after a surgery has been performed
• Ensure that all vitals are within normal range
• Log all findings in patients’ files
• Answer patients’ questions and ensure that they are kept comfortable
• Make sure that all relevant IVs are in check
• Develop individualized care plans based on each individual patient’s condition
• Ensure that the all nursing activities are carried out in accordance to individual patient care plan
• Monitor patients for condition changes and report any changes to the doctor
• Initiate patient education programs to ensure that both patients and families are educated on procedures and medications
• Determine when patients are ready to be moved to their rooms
• Perform intervention duties in cases of post-operative emergencies
• Record sedation levels and body temperature
• Manage blood and fluid transfusions and draw specimens
• Ensure that the post-operative space is clean and sanitized
• Change bandages and dress surgical wounds

Who We Are

At USPI, we create relationships that create better care. We partner with physicians and health care systems to provide first class ambulatory solutions throughout the United States. We are committed to providing surgical services in the most efficient and clinically excellent manner.

USPI is committed to, and proud of our inclusive culture. An inclusive culture, in our view, is respectful of differences and nurtures and supports the contributions of each individual, while also embracing and leveraging diversity. A diverse workforce, combined with an inclusive culture, makes USPI stronger and better able to meet the needs of our diverse patient and physician population.

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