Travel Nurse RN - OR - Operating Room
Boston, MA
Wellspring Nurse Source
4x10 hrs, Days

Job Description Summary

Utilizing the nursing process, you will be responsible for providing immediate and long-term nursing care needs of patients within the standards of the department and regulatory agencies.

Essential Functions

• Accurately assess patients’ needs using multiple data sources to determine actual and potential health problems.
• Utilize a Recovery Oriented Framework to identify patient strengths.
• Perform point of care testing and effectively communicate findings to healthcare team members.
• Maintain documentation that reflects response to interventions and demonstrates understanding of patients’ responses to treatment.
• Identify patient behaviors contributing to crises and apply non-verbal and verbal techniques to de-escalate situations.
• Plan and modify nursing interventions for assigned patients, tailoring plans to meet individual needs.
• Contribute to the development of multidisciplinary treatment plans.
• Demonstrate the ability to prioritize patient care needs effectively.
• Partner with patients and families to support recovery goals.
• Implement nursing care interventions and establish a therapeutic alliance with patients.
• Administer medications safely, accurately, and timely using BMV scanning.
• Review physician orders in a timely manner.
• Promote interventions that emphasize the least-restrictive alternatives and recovery-oriented goals.
• Participate in leading patient groups and evaluate the effectiveness of nursing care interventions.
• Provide accurate communication of patients’ clinical status during team rounds and shift changes.
• Utilize evidence-based nursing knowledge to guide practice decisions.
• Take a leadership role in organizing and providing patient care and supervise other staff members.
• Delegate care interventions and assume a leadership role during medical and psychiatric emergencies.
• Facilitate critical incident de-briefing following emergency events.

Qualifications

• Current nursing license and certification in Basic Life Support (BLS).
• Experience in ophthalmology and ENT preferred.