What are the responsibilities and job description for the PRN Registered Nurse - OR position at Capital Surgical Solutions?
Job Summary:
Responsible for providing nursing care to the patient in the operating room. This may include, but not limited to, performing as a scrub nurse, circulating nurse, supervisor, and educator.
Duties and Responsibilities:
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Responsible for providing nursing care to the patient in the operating room. This may include, but not limited to, performing as a scrub nurse, circulating nurse, supervisor, and educator.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Supervises and directs patient care in the operating room
- Ensures that proper techniques and practices are used according to accepted standards of practice
- Supervises other personnel in the room and directs or assists, as necessary
- Ensures care to appropriate patient through proper identification and checking of chart
- Performs scrub duties, as necessary if it is in there scope of practice
- Maintains count of sponges, needles, and instruments to ensure no loss of item
- Performs all circulation duties with efficiency and speed
- Supervises and assists scrub person as necessary
- Positions patient, prepares operative area, and adjusts table to proper position
- Has all supplies and equipment in the room and provides to the team, as necessary
- Opens all sterile packs and supplies according to the aseptic technique
- Assists surgeons, anesthesiologists and other personnel as needed
- Reviews surgeon’s preference cards and verifies with surgeon, as necessary
- Ensures all medications are administered and charted according to established policies and procedures
- Cares for specimens and cultures as directed by set policies and procedures
- Maintains OR records, specimens’, implants, and reports any unusual occurrences
- Accompanies patient to Recovery Room and reports to Recovery Room nurse on status of patient
- Assists in control and maintenance of supplies and equipment. As well as stocking the ORs before the end of a shift and putting deliveries away
- Assists in supervision of personnel to provide optimum assurance of safe environment
- Checks rooms, materials and equipment for proper care and handling
- Ensures a clean, safe environment through continued alertness to safely
- Assists in control of traffic and personnel to ensure proper control of infection and asepsis
- Assists in operating room staff development and education
- Assists in formulation and interpretation of procedures, standards, and techniques
- Assists in orientation of new personnel
- Assists in evaluation of all OP activities and nursing care given and of personnel and techniques
- Performs functions of registered nurse-recovery room and preoperative-nurse, as assigned
- Ensures the center is tidy and that all deliveries, boxes are put away in all areas of the center
- Currently licensed as a registered, professional nurse in the state of Maryland
- Prior experience in peri-operative nursing
- BLS certification, ACLS preferred
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