Operating Room Registered Nurse

Job description

Position Summary The ASC Registered Nurse is available for any and all clinical nursing coverage as needed, and assists each assigned facility in maintaining compliance with regulations that require a registered nurse to be on site whenever procedures are performed in the Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC). Duties and Responsibilities: - Evaluates patient pain appropriately upon admission, and throughout entirety of patient appointment. - Demonstrates effective assessment skills, including prioritization and delegation of patient care activities. - Calculates and conveys pertinent information, specifically significant patient problems, to the applicable team; including Medical Directors, Administrators and the Executive Committee. - Collaborates successfully and consistently with other members of the health care team regarding each patient’s condition during the perioperative period. - Ensures proper application and continuity of each patient plan of care. - Serves as patient advocate throughout all stages of patient episode of care. - Identifies emergency situations and institutes corrective actions in a calm and efficient manner. - Demonstrates knowledge necessary to assist the phys...