Registered Nurse
Hutchinson, KS, United States
Job Description
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Position Summary: Provides safe, quality patient care in the Peri-Operative Unit (Pre-Op, Recovery, and Operating Room). Accountable for the assessing, planning, implementing, and coordinating patient care from admission to discharge. Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Ensuring a high standard of nursing care to patients in the Hutchinson Ambulatory Surgery Center, working within company policies and procedures and nursing standards
- Assess patient status on admission to the pre-op area, the operating room, and/or the post-op area, on a continuing basis.
- Providing assistance during surgical procedures and ensuring safe working practices
- Setting, monitoring, and maintaining excellent standards of nursing care.
- Safely carries out physicians orders correctly and promptly, documenting all activities
- Maintaining personal contact with patients and relatives, being sensitive to their needs for courtesy, dignity, and privacy and ensuring a friendly environment at all times.
- Maintaining timely and accurate nursing records and ensuring that confidentiality is respected.
- Storing, checking, and administering medication in accordance with established standards and guidelines.
- Working with minimal supervision during surgical procedures, admission and recovery of patients and other related procedures
- Contributing to the local resolution, investigation and follow up action of any informal or formal grievances.
- Takes part in pre and post-op phone calls and communicates any problems to the supervisor.
- Maintain competencies in conscious sedation administration and monitoring of sedated patients, including airway protection, assessment, and support of sedated patients.
- Ensuring the safe discharge of all patients from the Surgical Unit.
- Maintaining a safe and clean environment within the clinical and surgical area in accordance with established standards and regulations.
- Assists anesthesia with set up and tear down of anesthesia and monitoring equipment.
- Solid understanding of safety principles, asepsis, sterile technique and universal precautions.
- Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for professional practice and continued professional growth. Attends all in-services and meetings as appropriate.
- Performs other duties that may be assigned from time to time.
- Performs all Essential Job functions and responsibilities.
- Maintains a professional and positive attitude, appearance and relationship with patients and staff.
- Observes facilities guidelines and polices.
- Experience: Minimum 2 year of experience in an RN related healthcare position.
- Education: Must be a licensed registered nurse (RN) in the state of Kansas.
- Other Skills:
- Ability to care for patients undergoing surgical procedures and to provide technical and nursing assistance during such procedures.
- Ability to correlate clinical data with nursing care.
- Ability to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate nursing care according to individual needs.
- Must demonstrate an understanding of clinical risk.
- Ability to direct and provide for patient care in emergency situations.
- Knowledge of EMR system.
- Must demonstrate consistent professional conduct and meticulous attention to detail.
- Must possess excellent verbal and written communication as well as excellent interpersonal skills with patients, staff, and other health care professionals.
- Works to achieve and maintain regulatory certification of the HASC.
- Must be willing to flex work hours as needed and/or requested by the HASC Supervisor.
- Occasionally lift or carry items weighing up to 25 pounds.
- Requires full range of body motion.
- Requires standing and walking for extensive periods of time.
- Vision and hearing to normal range.
- Exposure to communicable diseases and toxic substances.
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Job IdJD4385147
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IndustryNot mentioned
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Total Positions1
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Job Type:Full Time
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Salary:Not mentioned
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Employment StatusPermanent
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Job LocationHutchinson, KS, United States
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EducationNot mentioned