Vanguard Surgical Center has an immediate need for a full time float RN to join the team!
Job Summary: The RN Float provides quality patient care using the nursing process, the medical plan of care, and organizational policies. The RN Float provides safe, effective, and quality patient-family centered care in the perioperative services for all patient populations. The ideal candidate must be able to float in the following areas: PreOp, Circulate and Post Op.
Pre-operative Duties
- Manage patients’ admission processes to preoperative department
- Assess the status of patients’ health in pre-op and ensure accuracy of identification wristband
- Ensure that operative and informed consents are in order
- Determine the surgeon and procedure being carried out
- Take and record vital statistics of patients to ensure readiness for surgical procedure
- Initiate IVs and ensure that patients are informed about the procedure and attending medical staff
OR Circulator Duties
- Provides nursing care and service during surgery cases
- Develop an individualized perioperative plan of care.
- Evaluate the patient’s progress toward attaining outcomes.
- Positioning the patient, prepping the patient, and circulating the case
- Transfer care as appropriate.
- Document nursing care.
- Collaborate effectively with other disciplines as appropriate.
- Use problem-solving and conflict resolution skills to foster effective work relationships with team members.
- Maintain required competencies.
- Act as a patient advocate and maintain privacy of all appropriate information.
Post-operative Duties
- Assess patients’ condition after a surgery has been performed
- Ensure that all vitals are within normal range
- Log all findings in patients’ files
- Answer patients’ questions and ensure that they are kept comfortable
- Make sure that all relevant IVs are in check
- Develop individualized care plans based on each individual patient’s condition
- Ensure that the all nursing activities are carried out in accordance to individual patient care plan
- Monitor patients for condition changes and report any changes to the doctor
- Initiate patient education programs to ensure that both patients and families are educated on procedures and medications
- Determine when patients are ready to be moved to their rooms
- Perform intervention duties in cases of post-operative emergencies
- Record sedation levels and body temperature
- Manage blood and fluid transfusions and draw specimens
- Ensure that the post-operative space is clean and sanitized
- Change bandages and dress surgical wounds
Required Skills
- Must be a Registered Nurse with an unrestricted license in the state
- Must be a graduate of an accredited school of nursing
- Must have current BLS, ACLS and PALS
- Experience in PreOp/PACU, ED, or Critical Care
- Experience as an Operating Room Circulator required
- Experience in an ambulatory surgical center strongly preferred
- Must possess a strong knowledge of surgical procedures and management of the surgical patient
- Understanding of aseptic techniques and their implementation
- Ability to quickly adapt to changing condition of the patient when needed
- Must be an excellent team player and have the ability to communicate with staff, patients and physicians
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