Operating Room Registered Nurse
Boston, MA
Compunnel Healthcare
3x12 hrs, Evenings

Registered Nurse (RN) Surgical Suite - MEE

Job Description Summary
Utilizing the nursing process, responsibility for providing for immediate and long-term nursing care needs of patients within the standards of the department, hospital and regulatory agencies.

Essential Functions
- Accurately assesses patients’ needs.
-Utilizes multiple data sources to determine actual/potential health problems and functional status.
-Utilizes Recovery Oriented Framework to identify patient strengths.
- Performs point of care testing.
- Communicates findings effectively to members of the healthcare team.
- Documentation reflects response to intervention, demonstrates an understanding of patients’ response to treatment interventions.
- Identifies patient behaviors that contribute to the development of a crisis; utilizes non-verbal and verbal techniques to de-escalate crisis situation.
-Accurately plans nursing interventions for assigned patients.
- Modifies and individualizes Nursing Plan of Care and protocols.
- Participates in the development of the multidisciplinary treatment plan.
- Demonstrates ability to prioritize patient care needs.
- Partners with patients/families to support recovery goals.
- Provides and implements nursing care interventions.
- Establishes a therapeutic alliance with assigned patients.
- Demonstrates safe, accurate and timely medication administration using BMV scanning.
- Reviews physician orders in a timely manner.
- Promotes interventions that provide the least-restrictive alternatives and recovery oriented goals.
- Participates in leading patient groups.
- Accurately evaluates the effectiveness of nursing care interventions.
- Documentation on the Nursing Plan of Care, protocols, and Assessment Flowsheet reflects response to intervention, demonstrates an understanding of patients’ response to treatment interventions.
- Accurately communicates patients’ clinical status at clinical team rounds and change of shift reports.
- Utilizes evidence based nursing knowledge to guide practice decisions.
- Provides a leadership role in organizing and providing patient care.
- Provides direction and supervision of MHSs.
- Delegate care interventions.
- Assumes a leadership role in medical and psychiatric emergencies.
- Promotes/provides for critical incident de-briefing following emergency event.