Operating Room RN

Description

Lakeside Surgery Center has been serving Orange, Osceola, and Seminole Counties for over 60 years, and is proud to be the leading ophthalmic surgery center in the community. Lakeside Surgery Center is a four (4) room free standing ambulatory surgery center that is committed to the delivery of personalized eye care of the highest quality. Not only do we value our patients, but we are also passionate about our staff. Our amazing leadership team is committed to cultivating and maintaining an employee centric work environment where every employee has a voice and a platform to share their ideas and suggestions, are encouraged and incentivized to broaden their education and training and are invited to participate in the numerous employee activities offered monthly.

Lakeside Surgery Center is affiliated with Ascend Vision Partners premier network of Ophthalmic Medical Services.

Team members are hired to assist the organization in building a differentiated integrated eye care platform focused on superior patient care delivered through our network of optometrists and ophthalmologists. Team members are expected to exhibit a continuous behavior of professionalism, which includes but is not limited to, acting with integrity and accountability, support our clinicians in all aspects of patient care delivery, support a culture of respect, diversity and inclusion in our organization, and enhance the patient access to primary and specialty eye care. 

Our vision is to create an admired healthcare company dedicated to delivering personalized eye care with outstanding patient outcomes. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assesses patient/significant others understanding of disease process and need for surgical intervention.
• Performs perioperative teaching to patient/significant other.
• Demonstrates appropriate nursing management and intervention in the perioperative period.
• Performs perioperative patient assessment, reviews surgeon preference card, assesses equipment/supply needs, prepares operating room, ensures availability of needed supplies and equipment and proper and safe working order.
• Provides safe medication administration.
• Manipulates patient position appropriate to surgical intervention, using positioning aids as needed to avoid impaired circulation, respiration and postoperative pain/discomfort.
• Performs surgical prep per standard of care and surgeon preferences.
• Handles and documents specimens per policy.
• Performs sponge, sharps and instrument counts per protocol.
• Initiates corrective actions when surgical counts are incorrect and when breaks in technique occur.
• Assures emergency equipment and supplies are available at all times.
• Keeps surgical suites clean, tidy, free of soiled equipment and supplies, and properly stocked.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Maintains active professional relationships with physicians and patients by assessing needs and levels of satisfaction with facility services.
• Ability to make sound nursing judgement based on nursing theory.
• Working knowledge and experience in hospital or ambulatory surgical center operating room.
• Effective communication skills; oral and written.
• Understands, verbalizes and participates in the quality improvement process.

Requirements

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

• High School Diploma or equivalent General Education Degree (GED).
• Associates' degree in nursing.
• Minimum of two (2) years experience as an operating room nurse.

LICENSE/CERTIFICATION:

• Clear/active Florida Registered Nurse (RN) License
• Basic Life Saving (BLS) and Advanced Cardiac Life Saving (ACLS) Certification