Job Description
Job Title: Registered Nurse
Profession: RN
Specialty: Operating Room
Duration: 13 weeks
Shift: 8 Hours
Hours per Shift: 5 days per week
Experience: Minimum of two years current experience in a large operating room; must have successfully completed at least one 13-week travel assignment
License: State Nursing License (New Mexico or Compact State)
Certifications: BLS required; ACLS and PALS preferred
Must-Have: Candidate must be able to scrub; must be a team player, flexible, and accustomed to a fast-paced environment
Description:
Utilizes the nursing process to provide direct patient care to an assigned group of patients during a shift.
Ensures safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable care of patients.
Provides direct patient care by assessing, planning, implementing, evaluating, and documenting individual patient needs, actions taken, and patient responses.
Coordinates patient care through collaboration with the patient and healthcare team.
Initiates, utilizes, and documents appropriate protocols and standards of care.
Administers medication and treatments as prescribed by the physician or standard protocols and documents according to policy.
Identifies and meets patient and family learning and discharge needs on admission and throughout the episode of care.
Assumes responsibility for the clinical supervision of LPNs and non-licensed assistive personnel.
Completes patient population/age-specific/procedure and protocol education and competency testing per unit standards.
Epic experience preferred, but not required; can train on-site.
Ortho, EENT, and/or vascular experience is a plus.