Registered Nurse - Operating Room

Registered Nurse - Operating Room

A clinically competent, registered, professional nurse who has demonstrated expertise in the perioperative field. Effectively delivers perioperative care to the surgical/endoscopic patient through the nursing process of assessment, planning, intervention, implementation, and evaluation.

Job Duties:

1. Collects patient health data that are relevant to the operative or invasive procedure, analyzes the data to determine nursing diagnosis and identifies expected outcomes that are unique to the patient.
2. Develops and implements an individualized plan of care to attain expected outcomes and evaluates the patient's progress toward attaining outcomes.
3. Systematically evaluates the quality and appropriateness of nursing practice. Communicates professionally and effectively with patients, families, co-workers, healthcare team members, and ancillary departments to ensure "Patient Centered" coordination of care.
4. Acquires and maintains specialized knowledge and skills in nursing practice and evaluates his or her practice in context with current professional practice standards, rules and regulations. Maintains a working knowledge of the AORN and Joint Commission standards.
5. Assigned call for weeknights, holidays, and weekends in an equal rotation with other OR nurses.
6. Interacts with and contributes to the professional growth of peers and colleagues. Participates in performance improvement activities in the unit and organization. Incorporates research findings into practice.
7. Provides leadership in the profession and professional practice setting. Collaborates with and delegates to ancillary/professional staff as appropriate; assures adherence to their scope of practice, considering licensure and/or certification.
8. Collaborates with the patient and designated support person(s) when practicing professional nursing.
9. Care and management of endoscopy and surgical patients. Considers factors related to safety, effectiveness, efficiency, and the environment as well as cost in planning, delivering, and evaluating patient care.
10. Assigned service line responsibilities by the Director of Surgical Services.
11. Uses ethical principles to determine decisions and actions.
12. Participates in staff meeting, committees, and special projects; actively contributes to Surgical Services quality and development.

Qualifications:

1. Current Licensure with the Minnesota Board of Nursing.
2. Bachelor's degree in Nursing and 2 years of OR RN experience preferred.
3. OR RN experience and/or
   • Clinical experience as a Certified Surgical Technologist, and/or
   • Successful completion of a Peri-operative course (AORN or CCI) or equivalent
4. BLS and ACLS certifications or ability to attain within six months and maintain certification.
5. Demonstrated ability to manage large volumes of multiple patient/family/staff/physicians/priorities within short time frames and organize workload; includes critical thinking, delegation skills, and respectful communication.
6. Experience in assessing the individual needs of adult, geriatric, adolescent, and pediatric patients and their families undergoing operative or other invasive procedures, while developing appropriate plans of care.
7. Ability to report to the hospital within thirty minutes of notification for call-outs.
8. Demonstrated ability to follow and adhere to Grand Itasca Clinic and Hospital policies, vision, mission and values.
9. Maintains reliable and consistent attendance.
10. Perform other related duties as required. This list is not all-inclusive and any other task or job may be assigned in the future.

Grand Itasca Clinic & Hospital offers Earned Sick and Safe Time benefits to all employees.