About this role
Job title: Registered Nurse (RN) - Operating Room
About the Role The Registered Nurse (RN) in the Operating Room at Concord Hospital's Orthopaedic Surgery Center provides perioperative nursing care for ambulatory surgical and pain management patients, from simple to complex multi-system cases, in a safe environment. The role utilizes knowledge of growth and development, assesses patient data, plans and implements care, and collaborates with the health care team. The RN engages with patients' families and may supervise the Surgical Technologist and Patient Care Coordinator, reporting to the Director and/or Resource Nurse.
What You'll Do
- Delivers care to patients effectively and safely according to facility policy.
- Teaches the patient and/or significant other(s) about the plan of care.
- Prepares patients and/or significant other(s) to manage their care after discharge.
- Manages the care of simple to complex multi-system patients by using time and resources efficiently.
- Administers medications effectively, efficaciously and safely.
- Gathers data through history taking and physical assessment and interprets data in order to plan and implement interventions to meet patient care needs.
- Develops, evaluates and revises patient's plan of care and nursing actions in response to patient's needs.
- Bases nursing actions by applying principles of purposeful, organized thinking to make sound clinical judgment/decisions.
- Participates and engages in center activities.
- Documents care provided and patient's progress toward attainment of desired outcomes.
- Directs and supervises others (nursing students, orientees, surgical technologists) in the performance of delegated nursing activities.
- Leads the health care team.
- Performs other duties as assigned.