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Registered Nurse (RN) - OR - Operating Room
Bruce W. Carter VA Medical Center
Miami, FL
days
Sign-On Bonus

$25-37/hour
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Registered Nurse (Operating Room) - Miami, Florida


Duties

VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: VA Nurse Total Rewards

Announcement closing date will be extended to allow for additional applicant pool.

NOTE: THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, CURRENT PERMANENT VA EMPLOYEES SHOULD APPLY UNDER THE ANNOUNCEMENT CBTC-11596384-22-TGP

The Bruce W Carter Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center is looking for a Registered Nurse to work in the Nursing Service Operating Room (OR). An OR Nurse is responsible for the planning, execution, delivering, and evaluating both direct and indirect patient care of surgical patients. Duties range from preoperative to postoperative interventions and other tasks necessary to meet patient's needs throughout surgical procedures, thus ensuring patient safety and continuity of care during the surgical experience.

The OR Nurse is responsible for coordinating and delivering patient care in an operating room while ensuring that proper techniques are utilized as per OR policy and AORN standards. The incumbent acts as a patient advocate at all times, especially while patient is under anesthesia.

The OR RN in the circulating role coordinates the care of the patients, serves as the patient's advocate throughout the intraoperative experience, and has responsibility for managing and implementing activities outside the sterile field. Activities are directed toward assuring patient safety and achieving desired patient outcomes. The nursing process is used as a framework for these activities.

Other duties include but are not limited to:

  • Providing emotional support to the patients prior to the induction of anesthesia
  • Performing ongoing assessment
  • Formulating nursing diagnosis
  • Developing and implementing a plan of care
  • Documenting patient care to accurately reflect patient status and patient care activities
  • Evaluating patient outcomes
  • Teaching patient and family
  • Obtaining appropriate surgical instruments, supplies, and equipment
  • Creating and maintaining safe environment
  • Assisting a surgeon with surgical positioning
  • Administering medications
  • Implementing and enforcing policies and procedures that contribute to patient safety, such as surgical checklists, "time- out" protocols, surgical counts for instruments, sharps, and soft goods, and performing equipment checks
  • Preparing and disposing of specimens
  • Communicating relevant information to other team members and to patients' family
  • Entering and maintaining data related to implants and medical devices used during a surgical procedure
  • Handling and maintaining Reusable Medical Equipment (RME)
  • Providing instructions, guidance, and supervision to surgical technicians and nursing assistants
  • Role models safe and effective practices
  • Appropriate use of safe patient handling equipment
  • Adheres to infection control practices while using equipment and providing patient care
  • Follows established SOP's and checklists in the set-up, cleaning, transporting, and storing reusable medical equipment (RME)
  • Safely utilizes and maintains VA property and equipment
  • Obtaining instruments, equipment, and supplies appropriate for the surgery
  • Preparing the sterile field and setting up the sterile table(s)
  • Maintaining the integrity and sterility of the sterile field throughout the procedure
  • Having knowledge of the procedure and anticipating surgeon's needs throughout the procedure
  • Providing instruments, sutures, and supplies to surgeon in appropriate and timely manner
  • Preparing sterile dressings
  • Implementing procedures that contribute to patient safety, such as surgical counts
  • Cleaning and preparing instruments for transport to decontamination area
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Pay

Average Florida Staff Position Pay

$29.62/hour

The average salary for a OR - Operating Room is 52% lower than the US average of $45.

Estimate based on Bureau of Labor Statistics data.