MA - Gardner, MA - Registered Nurse, Operating Room

Essential Functions

• Conducts interactions with everyone in a friendly, courteous and respectful manner.
• Goes out of his/her way to offer assistance to others. If he/she cannot offer assistance, then finds someone who can.
• Advocates to ensure privacy and confidentiality while helping others to maintain awareness.
• Maintains a clean and safe hospital.
• Responds appropriately and immediately in emergency situations.
• Maintains a safe and healthy environment for patients, visitors, and/or staff to provide the highest level of physical comfort, and minimize risk and injury.
• Ensures compliance with regulations to maintain accreditation and licensure.
• Complies with the Hospital Attendance and Tardiness Policy.
• Completed all Hospital and Department Specific Mandatory requirements in the prior calendar year.
• Reports Incidents in a timely and effective manner.
• All employees with direct patient contact are responsible for actively engaging in the practice of, monitoring and enforcing compliance to hand hygiene.
• Assesses (and reassesses), plans, implements, and evaluates nursing interventions/plans of care/patient goals.
• Provides patient care based on standards of care, standards of practice, protocols, and established policies and procedures.
• Respects each patient as an individual; provides care that fosters the patient s sense of dignity and positive self-regard.
• Provides patient/family teaching based on identified learning needs, readiness to learn, and barriers to learning.
• Collaboratively plans and prepares patient/family for discharge incorporating support systems/resources as necessary.
• Appropriately delegates and supervises nursing interventions performed by others.
• Appropriately prioritizes patient care (e.g. seeks assistance as needed from appropriate resources, reassigns personnel as necessary, recognizes need for emergency intervention, etc.).
• Provides thorough, timely, and accurate documentation of all pertinent data, therapeutic interventions and patient responses according to established standards.
• Provides timely and thorough report on assigned patients to other health care team members to ensure integration of services and continuity of patient care.
• Promotes learning for colleagues and self (e.g. functions as preceptor, instructor, trainer, attends professional development programs, etc.).
• Proactively identifies risk to patient safety and identifies opportunities to reduce medical/health care errors (i.e. appropriate reporting of errors/incidents).
• Identifies ethical issues in care and develops plan to address.
• Safely administers medications and intravenous therapy in accordance with physician s orders, protocols, policies and procedures.
• Assesses patient pain level upon admission and as necessary, depending upon diagnosis utilizing the numerical pain scale.
• Reassesses effectiveness of pain control and notifies physicians as needed, as well as, documents assessment and patients response to medication.
• Responsible for obtaining supporting information and completing required documentation related to medication reconciliation for use by the Attending MD.
• Collaborates with surgeon, anesthesiologist, clinical coordinator and surgical technicians to assure the patients well being during surgical intervention.
• Maintains sterile fields and directs the correct care, handling, and sterilization of sterile supplies and instruments.
• Identifies patients correctly by checking patient identification bands and consent forms as well as verifying operative procedure and site before taking patients to the operating room.
• Applies principles of aseptic practice, oversees the selection and preparation of supplies, equipment and instrumentation to all surgical cases.
• Applies principles of body mechanics and adapts them to various situations during positioning and transfer of patients.
• Assures that all techniques and practices carried out during the surgical procedure are accurate and reflect standards of perioperative practice.
• Maintains sponge, needle and instrument counts according to policies and procedures, including notifying the surgeon of the result of the counts.
• Identifies, labels, cares for and handles all specimens and cultures according to established policy and procedure.

Job Requirements

Minimum Education

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.

Minimum Work Experience

• O.R. nursing experience and CNOR strongly preferred.

Required Licenses

• Current MA RN license.
• ACLS upon hire OR must hold an active BLS card and obtain AHA ACLS within 60 days of hire

Required Skills

• Ability to function in an environment with competing priorities is a must.
• Ideal candidate must possess excellent communication skills, ability to multitask and have a can-do attitude.