OR Registered Nurse - Surgery Center

Overview

$3,000 sign on bonus available!

Full-time, benefitted position working 72-80 hours per two week pay period. Days of work are Monday - Friday with variable hours. Weekend work is on call every 4th weekend. Holiday work is on call every 4th holiday. Night work is on call one night a week.

Coordinates and performs perioperative nursing activities in the assigned operating room in a scrub and/or circulating capacity during the preoperative, intra-operative and postoperative phases of the patient's surgical experience.

Responsibilities

• Maintains the standards of nursing care and implements the policies and procedures of the hospital and nursing department.
• Assesses the health status of the patient of all ages throughout the perioperative period.
• Formulates a nursing diagnosis based on health status data.
• Establishes patient goals based on nursing diagnosis.
• Develops a plan of care that prescribes nursing actions to achieve patient goals.
• Implements nursing actions in transferring the patient according to the prescribed plan.
• Creates and maintains a sterile field.
• Provides equipment and supplies based on patient needs.
• Performs sponge, sharps and instrument counts.
• Administers drugs and solutions as prescribed by the physician.
• Physiologically monitors the patient during surgery.
• Monitors and controls the environment.
• Respects patient's rights.
• Performs nursing actions that demonstrate accountability.
• Evaluates patient outcomes.
• Measures effectiveness of nursing care.
• Continuously reassesses all components of patient care based on new data.
• Participates in orientation of new personnel and performance evaluation of nursing staff.
• Participates in staff development programs.
• Performs other related duties as assigned or requested.

Qualifications

Work requires a professional level of knowledge acquired by completing an accredited RN nursing education program. Must hold RN licensure from the ND State Board of Nursing for the current year.

Prefer minimum of nine months recent perioperative experience or complete approved college perioperative program. Nurses who do not meet this minimum requirement must successfully complete a surgical competency-based orientation program.