Staff Nurse - $15,000 Sign-On Bonus - 9504

Staff Nurse

Location: Cascade Valley Hospital

Salary: $43.68 to $82.65 per hour

Position Type: Full Time 0.6 FTE or More

Job Description

Department: Operating Room

Exempt: No

Schedule: Variable

FTE: 0.750000

The information described in this job description has been designed to indicate the general nature of the work performed. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Job Summary: A professional caregiver who assumes accountability for a group of patients by providing care to these patients through the nursing process. The RN is dedicated to providing quality service in a timely, courteous, and cost effective manner.

Essential Functions:

• Demonstrates Safety Awareness
• Practices Infection Control Strategies
• Participates in Quality Improvement
• HIPAA Requirements
• Corporate Compliance
• Environment of care
• Follows the approved hand hygiene practices and procedures
• Practices Age/Culture Awareness
• Safely and accurately performs bedside blood glucose testing
• Knowledge and standards of performance
• Demonstrates effective responses to unit/patient crisis situations
• Demonstrates punctuality to work, maintains good attendance record, and commitment to assigned schedule
• Completes timecard per procedure, adheres to dress code, and keeps license and certifications up-to-date
• Participates in self-evaluation and completes all required data at performance appraisal time
• Demonstrates ability to appropriately challenge questionable care practices
• Participates in committees, task forces, and projects
• Attends unit staff meetings and maintains effective interdepartmental communication
• Maintains a positive, customer-oriented attitude
• Meets organizational and work unit standards as outlined in policies and procedures
• Performs all job duties in accordance with recognized safety procedures
• Demonstrates the ability to make calm and sensible decisions under various work situations, dealing with immediate problems reasonably
• Chooses appropriate standard of care and associated protocols and individualizes POC per patient need
• Reviews POC and revises as needed
• Collaborates with other health care professionals, communicates POC to other members of health care team
• Completes all POC upon discharge
• Engages in discharge planning
• Demonstrates ongoing evaluation of patient condition and evaluates effectiveness of each intervention
• Judges the effectiveness of current protocols and documents all evaluations
• Prior to discharge completes/reviews/sends with patient: discharge Med Reconciliation list, appropriate discharge teaching, and complete discharge instructions
• Identifies patient/significant other learning needs and implements appropriate teaching protocols
• Utilizes documentation tools according to established guidelines
• Documents effectiveness of medications
• Documents pain scale evaluations
• Patient`s Rights / Legal Issues: Functions to protect patient privacy, meet patient`s right to be informed, and protect patient`s valuables per hospital policy
• Continuous Quality Improvement: Demonstrates appropriate use of Quantros and adherence to all unit and department safety policies
• Demonstrates appropriate use of Medication Event Forms
• Participates in QI activities: audits, data collection, and criteria development
• Leads and/or participates in developing and designing systems and processes for the new organization
• Continually improves and redesigns processes to increase productivity and quality
• Accountable and productive time mgmt
• Essential Functions Specific to Operating Room:
• Demonstrates surgical consciousness
• Demonstrates understanding of principles of sterile techniques
• Demonstrates ability to use and troubleshoot operative camera equipment and related power equipment
• Demonstrates understanding of sterilization and disinfection principles and techniques of flash sterilization and high level disinfection
• Demonstrates understanding of surgical care peculiar to children from birth to adult
• Provides necessary safety equipment and padding to position patients without injury
• Demonstrates awareness of patient safety issues and provides a safe environment
• Demonstrates proper use and care of surgical equipment and instrumentation
• Demonstrates efficient use of time
• Laser safety
• ESU: Demonstrates knowledge of safety concerns to electro cautery
• Proper placement of cautery pads
• Megadyne 2000
• Proper settings
• Troubleshooting
• Performs other duties as assigned

Education: RN required, BSN preferred

Experience/Training: One year perioperative experience preferred

License/Certifications: Washington State RN License required. American Heart Association Healthcare Provider BLS required.

Other Skills: Demonstrates ability and appropriate technical skills when administering treatments and procedures in accordance with physician's orders and policies and procedures. Demonstrates ability to handle emergency situations in a prompt, precise, and professional manner. Provides personal patient care to provide comfort and well being to the patient, acknowledging physiological and psychological needs. Strong verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills required.

Physical Demands and Work Environment: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing all day. The employee must frequently lift or move objects and patients weighing over 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to focus. Potential exposure to blood-borne pathogens/biohazard waste and radiation.

Skagit Regional Health offers a comprehensive benefit package including medical, dental, vision, 457b/401a (retirement), long term disability, and paid time off to all employees holding an FTE of 20 or more hours per week. Eligible employees also receive sick time pay.