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Registered Nurse Operating Room

Longmont United Hospital

#Registered Nurse #Medical Records #Patient Care #Healthcare #Operating Room #Patient Safety #Nursing Process #Clinical Data #Surgical Nursing

Quick overview

The RN is responsible for circulating in various surgical cases, including general, ortho, and robotics, while advocating for patient safety. Duties include coordinating with the healthcare team, managing room turnover, and providing patient and family education.

Requirements summary

Candidates must be a Registered Nurse with an Associate's Degree in Nursing and a valid RN license. Previous OR-circulating experience is required, while a Bachelor's degree and one year of nursing experience are preferred.

associate degreebachelor degreePatient AdvocacyMedication AdministrationPatient AssessmentPatient EducationWound CareClinical DocumentationInterdisciplinary CollaborationIV TherapySpecimen CollectionCatheterizationRobotics SurgeryOR Circulating

Job description

Where You’ll Work At Longmont United Hospital, we treat the entire patient to leverage the powerful connection of body, mind, and spirit in the healing process. Here, your time at work will be spent with a supportive team of employees and leaders that value self-care, flexibility and development opportunities through cross-training and continuing education. Longmont, Colorado is home to more than 2,000 acres of parks, three public golf courses and numerous trails to hike, bike, walk or run. Located less than an hour away from the Rocky Mountain National Park (ranked the fourth most visited national park in the country in 2017 by the Denver Business Journal), you’ll have easy access to the very best Colorado has to offer. Job Summary and Responsibilities As our RN, you will assume responsibility for facilitating, communicating, and collaborating with the healthcare team and patient/family to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the patient, advancing modern nursing through compassionate care. Every day you will promote optimal patient health, well-being, and safety through the nursing process, adhering to patient care standards, guidelines, and the State Nurse Practice Act, and demonstrating personal accountability for relationship-based care and our organizational mission. To be successful in this role, you will be a Registered Nurse with a commitment to compassionate, high-quality patient care, strong communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to apply the nursing process effectively within a supportive, mission-driven environment. Assess patient’s physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs through observation, interview, review of medical records & clinical data. Evaluates patient’s response and intervenes to ensure optimal patient outcome. Develop and implement patient plan of care and observe outcomes in accordance with nursing standards and in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team. Demonstrate competency in a variety of therapeutic/diagnostic interventions including, but not limited to, IV’s, incision/wound care, medication administration, catheterization, and specimen collections. Thorough and confidential maintenance of patient charts and records. Document ongoing status, interventions, patient response and outcomes in an accurate, timely manner. Use information technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision-making. Promote, advocate, and collaborate to protect the health and safety and rights of each patient. Provide patient/family education through assessment of patient/family learning readiness, needs, and ability. Provide teaching and evaluate effectiveness of teaching. **Previous OR-Circulating Experience required*
Day to Day duties: Circulate on all cases. Gen, Ortho (Totals/Trauma) Neuro, OB/GYN, ENT, Urology, Robotics cases (DaVinci XI and MAKO), Eyes, urology, ENT, Breast Surgeries. Associates are cross trained for all services, no specialized service Teams. Giving breaks and/or providing additional supplies and sterile instruments as needed during operations. Assisting with Room turnover and restocking for next day’s cases. Acting as an advocate for patient before, during and after surgery. Position will be home based in surgery but will also cross train to cover Pre-Op/ Phase II recovery as needs present. 6 OR Suites Approx. 200-250++ cases per month Schedule- 36hrs/ week- 3 x12hrs- Variable days of week and start times per Surgical Volume and Current Unit needs. TBD with OR manager during interviews. Call required- Approximately 120 hours of call are required per 6 weeks 30min call back radius required Job Requirements In addition to bringing humankindness to the workplace each day, qualified nursing candidates will need the following: Required Associates Degree in Nursing; Nursing Diploma or by endorsement Graduate of an accredited School of Nursing required for new graduates, preferred for experienced RNs RN License required; Current state nursing licenses or valid RN license from a participating state in the National Licensure Compact Preferred One year of Nursing experience Bachelors Degree in Nursing

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