Full-Time
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Atlantic Vision Partners
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Williamsburg, VA, USA
In Person
Bachelor's
Category
 Medical, Clinical & Veterinary (1) |
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Required Skills
Infection Control
Patient Care
OSHA
ACLS
HIPAA
Patient Education
Requirements
- Training and understanding of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act requirements and patient confidentiality.
- Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state.
- Current Basic Life Support certification.
- Familiarity with the ERM system.
- Graduation from an accredited school of nursing.
- Willingness to submit to a background check, including a drug screen for Ambulatory Surgery Centers.
- Ability to execute tasks independently, learn and memorize tasks, maintain concentration and focus, multitask, prioritize work, and interact with large groups of people daily.
- Ability to exert up to twenty-five pounds of force occasionally and a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly, including lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, or otherwise moving objects.
- Ability to perform repetitive wrist, hand, and finger movements; maintain close visual acuity for computer-terminal viewing, extensive reading, and interpretation; and remain stationary for prolonged periods.
- Annual compliance training and testing is required.
Responsibilities
- Assess patient status on admission to the preoperative area, operating room, and postoperative area, and on a continuing basis.
- Provide safe, therapeutic, quality patient care using the nursing process and nursing diagnosis; set priorities, coordinate interventions, document interventions, and document patient responses.
- Ensure that patient care is provided in an organized and timely manner.
- Use nursing care standards when planning and implementing patient care.
- Communicate appropriate information about patient conditions to surgeons, anesthesia personnel, management, and other staff.
- Safely carry out physician orders correctly and promptly and document all activities.
- Initiate and participate in patient and family education and assess learning needs according to the patient’s understanding and readiness to learn.
- Assess and address each patient’s cognitive, physical, emotional, and chronological maturity during treatment and care.
- Participate in preoperative and postoperative phone calls and communicate problems to the appropriate person.
- Maintain competencies required for the Registered Nurse role, including operating-room circulator responsibilities such as identifying, counting, and caring for instruments and sponges and preparing the surgical site.
- Maintain competency in conscious-sedation administration and monitoring, including airway protection and assessment and support of sedated patients.
- Protect sedated and anesthetized patients by identifying electrical, equipment, and pressure-point hazards and minimizing exposure to maintain privacy and body temperature.
- Apply safety principles, asepsis, sterile technique, and universal precautions.
- Assess, anticipate, and implement appropriate care throughout the surgical process.
- Correlate clinical data with nursing care and provide care measures consistent with the patient’s age, sex, and health status.
- Document and perform nursing care in the assigned area according to standards of care and practice and organizational policies and procedures.
- Adhere to policies and procedures regarding confidentiality, infection control, safety, attendance, punctuality, and personal appearance.
- Serve as a role model and mentor and provide direction and leadership to other staff.
- Demonstrate understanding of established emergency procedures for the Center.
- Direct and provide patient care in emergency situations.
- Make decisions about Center-based problems.
- Participate in the orientation of nursing and ancillary staff as requested.
- Participate in developing standardized patient education programs.
- Participate in quality improvement activities, including identifying opportunities for cost reductions and efficiencies.
- Work to achieve and maintain regulatory certification and accreditation of the Center.
- Maintain responsibility and accountability for professional practice and continued professional growth and development through printed materials, other sources, in-services, and seminars.
- Flex work hours as needed or requested by the Manager.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Desired Qualifications
- At least 1-2 years of experience in a surgery center is preferred.
- Current Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support certification is preferred, or basic electrocardiogram or arrhythmia identification certification.