RN-Ambulatory Surgery/OR/Post Anesthesia Care Unit

4 weeks ago

Erie, Pennsylvania, United States Department Of Veterans Affairs Full time
Summary

This is an Operating Room RN job opportunity in the Surgical service line at the Erie. The Operating Room RN specializes in caring for adult and geriatric Veterans during the perioperative experience and assumes responsibility for the coordination of care focused on patient transition through the continuum of care in surgery from admission to the outpatient surgical unit and post operatively.



Duties

The Operating Room nurse must demonstrate and maintain competencies required for all processes, procedures, and equipment used in the Operating Room. The incumbent must have the technical and operational expertise and clinical skills to function as both a circulating and scrub nurse in all the above services. She/he must demonstrate a variety of specialized diagnostic and treatment procedure and will be accountable for promoting patient safety, continuity of care and the general well being of the patient. She/he will collaborate with physicians and ancillary services to provide the highest level of care; will analyze and upgrade patient care through quality improvement activities; and will monitor all clinical activities when acting in charge nurse capacity. She/he must strive to maintain all clinical competencies through continuous study, in-services, and participation in continuing education units. Based on level of education and experience, the incumbent may also be assigned preceptor/mentor responsibilities. The incumbent's clinical responsibilities include but are not limited to:

-The Perioperative nurse is responsible for patient outcomes resulting from nursing care provided during the perioperative experience. A perioperative registered nurse functioning in the circulating role must plan and direct the nursing care of every patient undergoing surgical and/or other invasive procedures, thus requiring a 1:1 perioperative nurse: patient ratio.

- The Circulating nurse is responsible for completing all Operative Documentation, i.e. Vista intraoperative record, DSS Live Data Time, Surgical Time Out and safety checks. She/he also ensures proper documentation and accountability of surgical specimens.

- The Operating Room nurse must demonstrate expertise, in both the circulating and scrub nurse capacity, in a minimum of one surgical specialty, and demonstrate minimal competency in all other surgical specialties performed at the Erie VA Medical Center by the following:

  • Demonstrating competency in pre-op assessment of the surgical patient, which includes actively acting as the patient's advocate when it comes to assessing the patient's understanding of surgical consent and procedures they are about to undergo; assessing that the patient has followed all pre-operative instructions, such as NPO status, halting of anticoagulation medication, etc.
  • Ensuring all instruments, supplies, and equipment are present and functional before the surgical procedure; ensuring sterility of all surgical instruments; ensuring count of surgical instruments and specialty equipment occurs prior to and following the procedure to ensure all instruments are accounted for prior to the patient leaving the Operating Room Suite; performing proper surgical Time Out prior to incision for all procedures; and when pertinent, performs fire safety time out prior to start of procedure.
  • Maintaining cleanliness and order in the Operating Room; protecting the sterile field by monitoring for breaches in sterile technique; limiting traffic in the Operating Room Suite and around the surgical field; assisting the Surgeons during procedures and coordinating with Surgical Technicians; ensuring post-operative pre-cleaning of instruments and safe transport to Sterile Processing.
VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards

Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards

Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory

Work Schedule: 7:00am-3:30pm

Compressed/Flexible: Not Available

Telework: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

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