Registered Nurse - Operating Room (PRN)
Frederick Surgical Center - Frederick, MD 21702
Overview
Salary Range $39.00 - $45.00 Hourly Position Type Per Diem Job Shift Day Education Level 2 Year Degree Travel Percentage None Category Nurse
Description
Are you a skilled and adventurous RN looking for a new challenge? Do you thrive in fast-paced environments and love making a difference in patients' lives? We're on the hunt for an exceptional OR Registered Nurse to join our dynamic healthcare team!
As an OR Registered Nurse at Frederick Surgical Center, you'll be part of a tight-knit team that's passionate about delivering top-notch care to our patients. You'll work alongside talented surgeons, anesthesiologists, and surgical technologists to ensure seamless surgeries and exceptional outcomes. If you're ready to take your nursing skills to the next level, keep reading!
Responsibilities:
- Promotes the mission, vision and values of the organization.
- Adhering to principles of Universal Precautions. Maintains confidentiality of patient and Center related business.
- Obtains and documents nursing history from patients and/or significant others that is comprehensive of present condition and prior problems.
- Prepares the patient for the procedure and handles the preparation of operating room before the surgery.
- Records vital signs, notes changes, and pursues more-specific investigations as needed. Provide technical assistance to surgeons.
- Performs interventions necessary to ensure that the patient's procedure is performed on the correct site, side and level. And performs interventions to protect patient from surgical infection.
- Manages the patient's specimens in the appropriate manner.
- Work as part of a healthcare team to assess patient needs, plan and modify care, and implement interventions.
- Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments, and following Center and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care; including those outlined by the State Nurse Practice Act and other governing agency regulations.
- Prepares, documents, and administers medications safely and correctly. Inventories medications at the beginning and end of the shift; notifies supervisor of discrepancies.
- Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
- Conducts pre- and post-operative education. Provide education regarding the expected psychosocial response, nutritional management, medication and pain management, wound management and expected responses to the operative or invasive procedure.
- Accepts accountability for clinical care of assigned patients including supervision of nonprofessional personnel.
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Graduate from an accredited school of nursing.
- Current registered nurse licensure in state of employment.
- Two (2) years perioperative services experience and/or training, preferred.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification.
- Certified Nurse, Operating Room (CNOR) certification, preferred.
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification, depending on patient population, preferred.
We need someone who can multitask like a pro, communicate with ease, and keep a cool head in a fast-paced environment. So, if you're a talented, detail-oriented nurse with a passion for the Operating Room and a desire to work in an environment where your contributions make a real difference, apply now! We can't wait to hear from you. In return, we'll offer you a lively, patient-focused, family-like atmosphere and a chance to work with an amazing team!