Job Title
Perioperative Registered Nurse (OR, PACU, Pre-Op)
Job Summary
Join a dedicated healthcare team in Sitka, Alaska, serving the health interests of Southeast Alaska residents. This role involves providing comprehensive, patient-centered nursing care across the lifespan within a dynamic perioperative setting, encompassing Operating Room (OR), Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU), and Pre-Operative areas.
As a Perioperative Registered Nurse, you will be integral to coordinating patient care from pre-operative assessment through intraoperative support as a circulator, and post-operative recovery. This includes preparing patients, verifying documentation, ensuring equipment readiness, maintaining a safe and efficient surgical environment, advocating for patient safety, and facilitating seamless communication among the surgical team to achieve optimal patient outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform comprehensive patient assessments and develop individualized plans of care for perioperative patients.
- Coordinate perioperative workflow outside the sterile field, including patient preparation, documentation verification, and ensuring equipment readiness.
- Serve as a circulator nurse, maintaining situational awareness, anticipating needs, supporting sterile staff, and documenting key intraoperative events.
- Administer medications and treatments safely and accurately according to provider orders and policy.
- Recognize changes in patient condition and initiate appropriate interventions or escalation of care.
- Provide patient and family education related to care, medications, and discharge needs.
- Collaborate effectively with providers and interdisciplinary team members to coordinate care and facilitate continuity of services.
- Document assessments, interventions, and outcomes accurately and timely in the electronic health record.
- Exercise independent nursing judgment and critical thinking in determining appropriate nursing actions, interventions, and priorities.
- Adhere to regulatory, safety, and infection prevention requirements within the nursing scope of practice.
- Demonstrate professionalism, accountability, flexibility, and teamwork, including appropriate delegation to ancillary staff.
- Float to other departments or assignments as needed to support patient care.
Required Qualifications
- Associate’s Degree in Nursing (ADN) from an accredited program.
Preferred Qualifications
Not specified.
Skills & Competencies
- Strong knowledge of nursing principles, evidence-based practice, medication safety, and infection prevention.
- Excellent clinical judgment, organizational, prioritization, and communication skills.
- Proficiency in perioperative nursing practices, including sterile technique and surgical safety protocols.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, high-acuity environment.
- Proficiency with electronic health records (EHR) and clinical systems.
- Ability to advocate for patients and assist them in navigating the healthcare system.