Hiring for Registered Nurse, Operating Room in Gardner,MA

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.
  
  

•  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.