Job Description

Position Description: The Operating Room Registered Nurse will be assisting in the care of patients before, during, and after surgery.

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We are committed to providing our Employees a stable work environment with equal opportunity for learning and personal growth. Vighter’s Mission is to provide efficient, fast, high quality healthcare staffing to our clients.

Our Culture’s key elements are crucial to the effectiveness of our employees in accomplishing our mission. The key elements include:

• Dependability

• Integrity

• Personability

• Transparency

• Responsiveness

Creating and cultivating this Culture within the organization is our commitment to our employees. Above all, Vighter employees will be provided the same concern, respect, and caring attitude that they are expected to share externally with every Vighter Client and Customer. 

Title: Registered Nurse Operating Room

Reports to: Project Manager

Location: El Paso, TX

Job Summary:

Vighter LLC is recruiting Registered Nurses to perform work at the William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso, TX. The Operating Room Registered Nurse will be assisting in the care of patients before, during, and after surgery. Operating room Registered Nurses provide direct and individualized nursing care to patients based on the application of scientific nursing principles. 

Principle Accountabilities:

• Consults and coordinates with health care team members to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care plans

• Conducts pre- and post-operative education

• Services as the communication liaison to family and members of the operating team

• Takes and monitors patients vital signs

• Ensures that operating on correct patient and the correct procedure is being performed

• Provides basic, beside care

• Prepares and administers medications and records medications

• Reports adverse reactions and/or treatments

• Responds to life saving situations based upon nursing standards and protocol

• Records all care information concisely, accurately, and completely, in a timely manner, in the appropriate format and on the appropriate forms.

• Preps operating room for patient/procedure

• Initiates corrective action whenever information from monitoring equipment shows adverse symptomology

• Monitors patients physical and emotional well-being throughout the care continuum

• Performs other position related duties as assigned, depending on assignment setting

Qualifications:

• Evidence of graduation from baccalaureate, associate, or diploma nursing program in nursing for registered nurse.

• Current unrestricted license to practice as a registered nurse.

• A minimum of one-year of full-time experience providing services as an independently licensed registered nurse in an in-patient environment.

Other Qualifications:

• Shall be a United States Citizen

• Shall not have been convicted of a felony

• Shall be able to read, write, and speak English

• Shall be able to operate a personal computer utilizing Microsoft applications, such as Explorer, Outlook, Word, Excel, etc. so as to efficiently create and/or utilize an Electronic Medical Record

Experience:

• Operating Room Nurses shall have completed an operating room nursing course and have worked a minimum of one year within the last two years as a full-time operating room nurse in a surgical center or hospital operating room.

Employee Requirements:

• Must be able to stand or sit for more than 8 hours per day

• Must be willing to work overtime if necessary

• Must be able to use an elevator or walk up and down stairs

• Must be able to lift up to 40 pounds and carry up to 10 feet

• Must be able to routinely grasp or handle objects, use finger dexterity, bend elbows/knees and reach above and below shoulders

• Must be able to read and interpret handwritten and typewritten print

• Must be able to communicate by voice and detect sound by ear

• Must be able to perform duties in an indoor or outdoor environment

• Must be able to pass a criminal background investigation

• Must undergo urine drug testing

Vighter LLC is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Position is contingent upon contract award

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Evidence of graduation from baccalaureate, associate, or diploma nursing program in nursing for registered nurse.

• Current unrestricted license to practice as a registered nurse.

• A minimum of one-year of full-time experience providing services as an independently licensed registered nurse in an in-patient environment.

Other Qualifications:

• Shall be a United States Citizen

• Shall not have been convicted of a felony

• Shall be able to read, write, and speak English

• Shall be able to operate a personal computer utilizing Microsoft applications, such as Explorer, Outlook, Word, Excel, etc. so as to efficiently create and/or utilize an Electronic Medical Record