Operating Room Registered Nurse

Job DetailsJob Location: Hickory Office - HICKORY, NC 28603Position Type: Full TimeGraystone Eye is looking for an individual who is willing to serve our patients with one vision in mind:

Achieving Exemplary

Clinical Outcomes

Providing an

Unparalleled Experience for Patients, Employees and Families

MAIN FUNCTION

Supervises and directs patient care in a single operating room.

COVID-19 VACCINATION

In accordance with CMS Interim Final Rule, Omnibus COVID-19 Health Care Staff vaccination: this position must have received or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccination by date of hire.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

1. Philosophy

• Supports the facility’s ideology, mission, goals, and objectives
• Performs in accordance with the facility’s policies and procedures
• Follows the facility’s standards for ethical business conduct
• Conducts self as a positive role model and team member
• Recognizes patients’ rights and responsibilities and supports them in performance of job duties
• Participates in facility committees, meetings, in-services, and activities

2. Communication

• Communicates effectively and professionally with patients, visitors, physicians, and coworkers
• Interacts with others in a positive, respectful, and considerate manner

3. Financial practices

• Uses facility resources appropriately and avoids wasteful practices
• Reports wasteful practices
• Analyzes work area and makes recommendations for potential cost-effective improvements

4. Compliance program

• Contributes to the progress and development of the organization’s adopted compliance program
• Performs according to established compliance policies and procedures

5. Performance-improvement program

• Contributes to the progress and development of the organization’s adopted performance-improvement program
• Performs according to established performance-improvement policies and procedures

6. Safety/risk-management program

• Adheres to safety policies and procedures in performing job duties and responsibilities
• Reports observed or suspected safety violations, hazards, and policy/procedure noncompliance to the safety officer or other designated person

7. Professional competence

• Participates in continuing education and other learning experiences
• Shares knowledge gained in continuing education with staff
• Maintains membership in relevant professional organizations
• Seeks new learning experiences by accepting challenging opportunities and responsibilities
• Develops teaching programs as requested for use in surgical or medical management, safety, health awareness, and enhancement of patient care
• Develops and maintains current materials for teaching and consent procedures
• Implements approved teaching programs as requested
• Monitors the patient education and counseling programs to assess quality and areas for improvement
• Evaluates the outcome of teaching and counseling programs as they pertain to patients’ overall satisfaction with the surgical experience
• Welcomes suggestions and recommendations

8. Duties

• Participates as a team member in support of the total perioperative process
• Organizes time, equipment, supplies, and personnel to provide effective and efficient case management
• Supervises and directs patient care in a single operating room
• Organizes nursing activities efficiently and effectively
• Delegates activities appropriate to the abilities of available staff members
• Considers cost containment by using supplies economically and in effective turnover time
• Assists with supply, drug, and equipment inventories to maintain stock level and availability
• Addresses patient needs during admission to the operating room, with attention to requirements specific to the outpatient setting
• Transports patients to the operating room observing policies/procedures, safety requirements, and patient needs
• Identifies the patient and correct surgical intervention according to policy/procedure and communicates such information to all members of the surgical team
• Reviews patients’ medical records/needs to plan care with other healthcare team members
• Provides comfort and reassurance to patient
• Maintains patients’ privacy and dignity
• Explains intraoperative phase of routine procedures and care to the patient
• Performs the circulating nurse’s role and functions following approved operating room procedures to meet the requirements of scheduled procedures
• Prepares operating room according to requirements of patient/procedure to be performed
• Assembles and provides properly functioning equipment, supplies, and instruments before start of procedure and positions and adjusts equipment as required during the procedure
• Anticipates needs of surgical team and assists anesthesia personnel by supporting patient during administration of anesthesia
• Assists with the proper and safe positioning of the patient and prepares operative site as directed by established procedures
• Monitors compliance with principles of aseptic technique according to accepted standards
• Assists with identification and confirmation of operative site
• Provides for comfort in the physical environment by monitoring designated parameters
• Provides continuity of patient care by communicating with other perioperative care personnel and documenting records accordingly
• Responds in a timely manner to meet the needs of the patient and physician
• Accurately comprehends and interprets verbal orders/directions
• Documents patient care records and other forms accurately following policies and procedures
• Accurately advises others responsible for the care of the patient about the patient’s status

Qualifications

• Cooperative work attitude toward co-employees, management, patients, visitors, and physicians
• Ability to promote a favorable facility image with physicians, patients, insurance companies, and the general public
• Ability to make decisions and solve problems

REQUIREMENTS

Required

• High school graduate or GED certificate recipient
• Graduate of accredited school of nursing
• RN with an active license in the appropriate state
• BLS certification
• Evidence of leadership qualities
• Strong ethical and moral character references
• Language skills adequate for high-level written, interpersonal and telephone communication in American English
• ACLS certification within one year of permanent employment

Preferred

• 1. ASC experience
• 2. Computer literacy

JOB QUALITY REQUIREMENTS

• Accuracy
• Attention to detail
• Timeliness
• Organization
• Little supervision needed to accomplish tasks

DEPENDABILITY

• Attendance
• Punctuality
• Ability to follow instructions
• Ability to meet deadlines

PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to sit/stand for long periods; ability to walk
• Capability for occasional overhead and low reaching
• Physical strength for equipment needs and patient-care activities
• Visual and auditory acuity for timely response and patient-care assessment activities
• Ability to move quickly in response to patient needs
• Ability to make frequent judgments and respond to routine problems
• Ability to make occasional judgments and respond to disasters or emergencies, actual events, or drills

WORKING CONDITIONS (ENVIORMENTAL)

• Well-lit and ventilated, with non-hazardous and hazardous equipment
• Category I: involves occupational exposure to blood and other potentially infectious body fluids and materials

CONTACTS

• Patients
• Patients’ family/significant others
• Physicians and physician office personnel
• Facility personnel
• Vendors
• Administration
• Medical director
• Governing body

Reports to: Chief Surgical Administrator