Description

Are you looking for a great culture? Do you want to come to work because you enjoy the people you get to work with? Are you looking for a nursing position where you can make a positive patient impact all while working a part time schedule? Then scroll no more, this is the role for you! 

About Iowa Ortho

• WORK ALONGSIDE DEDICATED PEOPLE: Our team is made up of individuals who believe creating a positive experience is not just for the patient, but also for their co-worker.
• WORK WITH ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY AND STATE-OF-THE-ART EQUIPMENT: Iowa Ortho works hard to stay up-to-date on all technology including creating and advancing our own systems. Our imaging center provides the highest quality radiographs (X-rays), advanced digital imaging for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT scan) and dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA scan) for both bone density and body composition testing, as well as cutting-edge outpatient surgical suites.
• PROVIDE EXCELLENT PATIENT CARE: Work with staff that are dedicated to providing excellent care to our patients. Iowa Ortho providers and teams are all working towards two common goals – the quality of life of our patients, and our staff.
• COMPETITIVE BENEFITS AND FUN AT WORK: We value our team members. That’s why Iowa Ortho offers competitive benefits such as: 401k contributions, profit sharing, and a full menu of a la carte benefits, employee discounts, annual pay evaluations, company BBQs, food trucks, theme days, and more!

GENERAL SUMMARY:

Provides individualized, high-quality nursing care to patients of all ages. Uses a team approach to delegate and coordinate patient care at admission, recovery, transfer, and discharge. Serves the populations ranging from infant, pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric. 

This position has a hiring range of $31.01-$34.11 per hours based on relative years experience to the job. 

Please note that our first point of contact may be email. Please check your spam/junk folder as our emails sometimes end up in those folders. 

HIPAA SECURITY COMPLIANCE: 

Security Access: High

“Incumbent has access to restricted or confidential patient information and must comply with the terms of the center’s Confidentiality and Security Policies as it applies to their job role.”

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND REPONSIBILIES:

•  Communicate effectively and appropriately with staff, physicians, patients, families and other health care team members.
• Conduct assessments according to facility guidelines. 
•  Administers nursing care to patients; includes assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the patient’s care plan in coordination with the physician.
•  Provides nursing care guided by physician orders, unit protocols and professional judgment.
•  Communicates effectively and appropriately with staff, physicians, patients, families and other healthcare team members.
• Participates in ongoing educational activities related to clinical knowledge and professional issues.
•  Contributes to the professional development of peers and colleagues by sharing knowledge and skills.
•  Delivers care in a manner that preserves and protects patient autonomy, dignity and rights.
• Considers factors relating to safety, effectiveness and cost in planning/delivering patient care.
• Provides patient/family or caregiver education and counseling in recognition and solution of physical, emotional, and environmental health problems.
•  Utilizes hospital information system to process orders/data and retrieve patient information.
•  Maintains knowledge of documentation requirements needed for patients’ records.
•  Participates in the performance improvement process. Assists with regulatory compliance throughout the organization. 
•  Demonstrates competence in specified computer applications.
•  Provides nursing care guided by physician orders, unit protocols and professional judgment.
•  Works independently with limited direct supervision using the Nurse Practice Act, Mercy Medical Center policies, nursing standards, and professional judgment.
•  Maintains knowledge of equipment set-up, maintenance, and use (i.e., IV pumps, monitoring equipment, and drainage devices).
•  Initiates emergency support measures (i.e., cardiopulmonary resuscitation, protecting patient from injury).
•  Complies with OSHA/JCAHO and other regulatory agency recommendations and guidelines. 

MARGINAL FUNCTIONS:

• Other duties as assigned by Nurse Manager, including staff cross training. 
• Assists in maintenance of physician's preference cards 
•  Participate in maintenance of unit resource materials.
•  Assists with clerical duties (i.e., maintenance of charge, patient record, answering phones and call lights, processing physician orders.
•  Maintains patient care supplies, equipment, and environment.
•  Provides orientation/education for staff, students, and other hospital and community organizations as requested.
•  Supports and participates in departmental Performance Improvement projects. 
•  Attends departmental and other meetings as assigned. 

Requirements

MINIMUM KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:

•  R.N. with license to practice in State of Iowa.
•  Mandatory reporting course within previous 5 years within 3 months of hire
• IV skill preferred. 
•  Knowledge of perioperative services. 
•  Maintains BLS qualification or obtained within 6 months of hire
• Maintains ACLS qualification, or obtains within 6 months of hire
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certified or obtained within six (6) months of hire for PACU only.
•  Ability to read, write and speak English language. 

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY REQUIREMENTS: (Constant = 67-100% of workday, Frequent = 34-66% of workday, Occasional = 33% or less of workday) 

Constant: 

Frequent:

 Balancing: Maintaining equilibrium to prevent falling when assisting patients with activity.

Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist (for example, emptying suction canister that are below waist level or obtaining supplies from low shelves).

Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest or kneel.

Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine (for example, emptying foley bag attached to bed frame)

Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.

Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.

Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.

Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of the fingertips and palms

Occasional:

Climbing: Stairs, stools, ramps.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

•  Heavy work: Exerting up to 65 lbs. push/pull (force to move frequently, and lifting up to 50 lbs. occasionally, and lifting up to 40 lbs. frequently, and lifting up to 20 lbs. constantly, to move patient and/or objects.

VISUAL ACUITY REQUIREMENTS:

•  Ability to accurately prepare and read written documentation. 
•  Ability to utilize computer terminal.
•  Good hand-eye coordination including the ability to work with small items i.e. suture, etc.
•  Peripheral vision
•  Ability to read pertinent printed and electronic material and distinguish colors.
• §Ability to include inspection during patient assessment.
•  Ability to accurately read measurements on patient related equipment—some examples include: thermometers, mechanical gauges, glucometers, IV pumps, and computer monitor displays.

INTELLECTUAL/EMOTIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

•  Ability to maintain a high standard of courtesy and cooperation (service excellence) in dealing with co-workers, patients and visitors, and perform job functions satisfactorily despite the stress of an outpatient surgery environment.
• Adaptability to performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another without loss of efficiency or composure.
•  Adaptability to situations requiring the precise attainment of set limits and standards.
• Ability to accept responsibility for the direction or planning of an activity but also to work independently.
• Adaptability to performing under stress when confronted with emergent, critical, unusual, or dangerous situations, or situation in which working speed and sustained attention are vital aspects of the job.

EQUIPMENT/TOOLS:

• Standard patient care equipment and surgical instrumentation, sterilization equipment, phone, computer terminal, general office equipment, and written materials. 

WORKING CONDITIONS:

•  The worker is subject to inside environmental conditions.
•  Employees in this job classification have been identified as having the likelihood of occupational exposure to blood or other potentially infectious materials, therefore, are included in the OSHA Exposure Control Plan with all its specifications for preventing contact with the above materials.
•  The worker is subject to noise from various types of surgical equipment. 
• The worker is subject to vibration (drills, saws, etc.)
•  The worker is subject to hazards from electrical equipment, mechanical parts, needles, etc. 
• The worker is subject to gases and fumes. 

REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS:

• Reports to the Nurse Manager under direction of the Director of Surgery
• Has no responsibility for leading or following-up on the work of others.