RN Job at Priority Dispatch Corp. in Gallatin

Description

POSITION SUMMARY
The RN assists in the daily clinical operations of the ASC in accordance with established Federal, State, and accreditation standards and center policies and procedures. Participates in direct patient care including maintaining a clean, orderly and safe environment.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS include the following:

1. Patient care in the preoperative and postoperative areas
2. Promotes the mission, vision, and values of the organization.
3. Coordinates planned nursing care with other health care team members
4. Prepares preoperative and postoperative areas for patient care
5. Prepares patients for surgical procedures, according to physician orders
6. Monitors patients’ vital signs, breathing, alertness, awareness following surgical procedure
7. Preoperative and postoperative assessment and patient education
8. Maintains a high standard of safety for patients in preoperative and postoperative areas
9. Performs interventions necessary to ensure that the patient’s procedure is performed on the correct site, side, and level
10. Manages the patient’s specimens in the appropriate manner
11. Communicates the patient’s current status to the appropriate parties throughout the continuum of care
12. Administers medications safely and correctly
13. Performs interventions to protect the patient from surgical site infection
14. Protects the patient’s rights, dignity, and privacy
15. Provides culturally and age-appropriate, ethical care within legal standards of practice
16. Transfers care as appropriate
17. Assists with preoperative and postoperative phone calls to patients
18. Delegates tasks as appropriate according to the state Nurse Practice Act and job descriptions
19. Documents nursing care accurately, completely, and legibly
20. Participates in quality review and performance improvement projects
21. Participates in the performance appraisal process
22. Uses problem-solving and conflict resolution skills to foster effective work relationships with team members
23. Maintains required competencies
24. Acts as a patient advocate and maintains privacy and confidentiality of all appropriate information
25. Completes all required compliance training

Qualifications

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, & ABILITIES
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills and/or abilities required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

1. Actively participates in the development of a healthy work environment
2. Uses interpersonal skills to establish and maintain healthy interpersonal relations, which include functional trust, positive feedback, and constructive criticism
3. Good communication skills: oral and written
4. Ability to make sound nursing judgment based on nursing theory
5. Demonstrates primary nurse accountability through coordination, communication, and continuity of patient care
6. Must be able to assess, prioritize, plan and implement direct patient care
7. Assumes responsibility for competency of practice and takes initiative for professional development and continuing education
8. Working knowledge and hospital or ambulatory surgery center, experience in PACU, including direct patient care
9. Knowledge of patient monitoring equipment
10. Ability to adhere to work schedule and manage time appropriately
11. Ability to utilize resources in a timely, organized and cost-effective manner
12. Good computer skills including use of standard office programs
13. Ability to operate standard office equipment
14. Ability to speak, read, and write in English
15. Ability to work well under pressure and accept additional assignments willingly
16. Ability to work flexible hours as needed to accommodate workload
17. Ability to concentrate, think, and learn
18. Ability to hear, see, sit, stoop, kneel, crouch, reach, lift, push and pull

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE
Must possess updated licensure for state in which facility is located; Two (2) years of clinical experience preferred, with emphasis in PACU, surgery, or ER; IV skills required. BLS required. ACLS required. All employees must be able to provide proof of identity and right to work in the United States.