Registered Nurse, OR Circulator

Responsible for the delivery of safe, effective, and quality patient-family centered care in the OR and other areas of perioperative services for all patient populations.

Promote the mission, vision, and values of the organization.

Assess patients at intervals as stated in policies and procedures.

Develop an individualized perioperative patient plan of care.

Implement the plan of care by

protecting the patient from injury caused by extraneous objects and chemical, electrical, laser, mechanical, and thermal sources;

performing accounting procedures to protect the patient from unintended retained surgical items;

performing interventions necessary to ensure that the patient’s procedure is performed on the correct site, side, and level;

managing the patient’s specimens according to organizational policy and procedures;

communicating the patient’s current status to relevant parties throughout the continuum of care;

administering medications safely and correctly;

performing interventions to maintain the patient’s wound and tissue perfusion at or above baseline levels;

performing interventions to maintain the status of the patient’s genitourinary, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, endocrine, respiratory, cardiovascular, and neurological systems and fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balances at or above baseline levels;

performing interventions to ensure the patient is at or returned to normothermia at the conclusion of the immediate postoperative period;

performing interventions to protect the patient from surgical site infection;

assessing the knowledge level of the patient or designated support person;

providing education regarding the expected psychosocial response, nutritional management, medication management, pain management, wound management, and expected responses to the operative or invasive procedure;

involving the patient or designated support person actively in decisions affecting his or her perioperative plan of care and the rehabilitation process;

protecting the patient’s rights, dignity, and privacy;

providing age-specific, culturally competent, ethical care within legal standards of practice; and

providing consistent and comparable care regardless of the setting.

Evaluate the patient’s progress toward attaining outcomes.

Transfer care as applicable.

Delegate tasks according to the state Nurse Practice Act and job descriptions.

Document nursing care accurately, completely, and legibly.

Collaborate effectively with other disciplines as applicable.

Participate in quality review and performance improvement projects.

Participate in the performance appraisal process.

Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier.

Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities.

We believe that success is achieved through talented people.

We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.

We employ and provide care to people from all walks of life.

We are committed to promoting healing, providing hope, preserving dignity and producing value with an inclusive workforce in which diversity is leveraged, respected, and reflective of the patients, family members, customers and team members we serve.