Preassessment RN

Preassessment RN

Mountain View Surgery Center at Scottsdale is hiring a Full Time Preassessment Nurse. Mountain View Surgery Center at Scottsdale is a fast paced ASC environment committed to producing the highest quality work and experience for patients and their families. At Mountain View Surgery Center Scottsdale, we believe health and care are inseparable. Our mission is to care for every patient and their family as if they were our own. Each patient, each family, each and every time.

The Preassessment Nurse will play a crucial role in patient care by conducting comprehensive assessments, providing education, and collaborating with healthcare professionals to ensure the highest quality of care for our multi-specialty surgery patients while also providing quality patient care using the nursing process, the medical plan of care, and organizational policies. The PAT Pre Admissions Testing RN provides safe, effective, and quality patient-family centered care in the perioperative services for all patient populations. The RN supports the mission, vision, and values of the organization.

Responsibilities:

1. Patient Assessment: Conduct thorough patient assessments, focusing on medical history, symptoms, and treatment goals. Collaborate with physicians and healthcare teams to develop individualized care plans.
2. Education and Counseling: Provide patient education on multi-specialty surgery, treatment options, and post-procedure care. Offer emotional support and counseling to patients and their families.
3. Procedure Preparation: Coordinate pre-procedure assessments, ensuring patients are adequately prepared for diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. Address patient concerns and questions related to upcoming procedures.
4. Documentation: Maintain accurate and detailed patient records in compliance with regulatory standards. Document assessments, interventions, and patient responses in electronic health records.
5. Collaboration: Collaborate with multidisciplinary healthcare teams to ensure seamless patient care. Communicate effectively with physicians, nursing staff, and administrative teams.

USPI offers the following benefits, subject to employment status:

• Medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
• Paid time off (vacation & sick leave)
• 401k retirement plan
• Paid holidays
• Health savings accounts, healthcare & dependent flexible spending accounts
• Employee Assistance Program, Employee discount program
• Voluntary benefits include pet insurance, legal insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, long-term care, elder & childcare, AD&D, auto & home insurance

At USPI, we create relationships that create better care. We partner with physicians and healthcare 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.

Required Skills:

• Current Arizona Nursing License
• Current BLS, ACLS
• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
• Minimum 2 year experience in a hospital setting
• Ability to recognize, evaluate, solve problems and correct errors.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with patients, hospital staff, physicians, vendors and the public.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Demonstrates accountability, professionalism, openness, receptive to change, creativity and innovative.
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to adapt to change quickly, strong knowledge base relative to surgery procedures and management of the surgical patient
• Understands principles of aseptic technique and their implementation
• Ability to care for patients from infancy to geriatrics
• Excellent teaching skills
• Basic knowledge of Performance Improvement ideology

*Experience working in an ASC is a plus.

*Must be team-oriented and patient-focused.