RN Ambulatory Surgery Center - Cadillac - M-F DAYS

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

More Than Just Care, It’s Community

Imagine doing meaningful work in a place where people vacation. That’s life at Munson Healthcare - northern Michigan’s largest healthcare system, with eight award-winning community hospitals serving over half a million residents across 29 counties.

If you want a career in healthcare and a lifestyle most people only dream about – with freshwater lakes, scenic trails, charming downtowns, a vibrant arts scene, and endless outdoor adventures - you might just be  Munson Material.  To us, that means teammates who live by our values of  excellence, teamness, positivity, creativity, and a commitment to creating  exceptional experiences for our patients and each other. Join a team that delivers outstanding care in one of the most beautiful regions in the country.

Invested in You

• Grow:  Tuition reimbursement, in-person and online development, and access to our career hub to help you advance. 

• Thrive: Full benefits, paid holidays, generous PTO, employee discounts, and free individual retirement counseling.

• Be Well:  Free wellness platform for you and your family, plus personalized support for personal or family challenges. 

• Be Heard: Share your ideas and help shape the way we work through improvement huddles, employee surveys, and town hall meetings

Job Description

A Day In The Life

• Assess patient status on admission to the preop area, operating room, and post-op area, and on a continuing basis. 

• Provide safe, therapeutic quality care to patients by utilizing the nursing process and nursing diagnosis in a timely manner. 

• Coordinate nursing interventions to enhance achievement of expected outcomes and ensure readiness for discharge. 

• Document interventions and patient responses. 

• Ensure provision of patient care in an organized and timely manner. 

• Utilize nursing care standards when planning and implementing patient care. 

• Communicate appropriate information regarding patient conditions to surgeons, anesthesia, management, and other staff. 

• Safely carry out physician’s orders correctly and promptly, documenting all activities. 

• Initiate and participate in patient and family education. 

• Assess learning needs according to the patient’s level of understanding and readiness to learn. 

• Display an understanding of each patient’s cognitive, physical, emotional, and chronological maturity in assessments, treatment, and care. 

• Maintain competencies to function in RN role within specific areas (e.g., OR circulator). 

• Maintain competencies in conscious sedation administration and monitoring of sedated patients. 

• Protect sedated and anesthetized patients by identifying safety hazards and minimizing exposure to maintain privacy and body temperature. 

• Expertise in safety principles, asepsis, sterile technique, and universal precautions. 

• Assess, anticipate, and implement appropriate care throughout the surgical process. 

• Provides safe, quality patient care in the Peri-Operative area (Preop, Recovery, or OR). Accountable for assessing, planning, implementing, and coordinating patient care from admission to discharge. 

Qualifications

Required:

Currently Licensed as a Registered Nurse in the State of Michigan 

ADN 

 

Preferred: 

Experience in the Per-operative Area 

Additional Information

Schedule: M-F Start times between 6:30-7AM and end times at 5:30 or later. 

Munson Healthcare requires all employees be vaccinated or have lab confirmed immunity for Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella. MHC also requires all employees to receive a flu vaccine during the flu season in the year that they are hired and annually thereafter, or receive an approved medical or religious exemption.