Travel Nurse RN - OR - Operating Room
Hermiston, OR
Wellspring Nurse Source
3x12 hrs, Days

The Registered Nurse specializing in perioperative nursing practice is responsible for delivering safe, effective, and quality patient-family centered care during the intraoperative surgical experience. This role acts as the patient advocate and supervises any personnel assigned to them. The RN Circulator will participate in an on-call rotation for the Surgery Unit.

Essential Job Functions:

• Accept responsibility for direction, control, and planning of activities.
• Make evaluations and decisions based on measurable or verifiable criteria.
• Work independently to implement care plans and ensure patient safety.
• Protect patients from injury caused by various hazards, including chemical, electrical, and thermal sources.
• Perform accounting procedures to prevent unintended retained surgical items.
• Ensure the patient's procedure is performed on the correct site, side, and level.
• Manage patient specimens in accordance with organizational policies.
• Communicate patient status with relevant parties throughout the continuum of care.
• Administer medications safely and accurately.
• Maintain the patient's wound and tissue perfusion at baseline levels or better.
• Ensure proper functioning of the patient's genitourinary, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, endocrine, respiratory, cardiovascular, and neurological systems.
• Protect the patient from surgical site infections.
• Uphold the patient's rights, dignity, and privacy.
• Provide age-specific, culturally competent, and ethical care in accordance with legal standards of practice.
• Document nursing care accurately, completely, and legibly.
• Collaborate effectively with other disciplines as needed.
• Utilize problem-solving and conflict resolution skills to promote teamwork.
• Maintain required competencies and pursue professional growth actively.
• Act as a patient advocate and maintain confidentiality of health information.
• Support the hospital's mission, vision, values, policies, and procedures.
• Participate in required education for applicable programs.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Education:
• Required: Associate of Science in Nursing
• Preferred: Bachelor's degree in nursing
• Licenses/Certifications/Registrations:
• Required: Current RN license in the state, BLS, ACLS, PALS Certification, TNCC
• Preferred: CNOR, Peri-op 101, CRASE training (required for travel assignments over six months)
• Experience:
• Required: None
• Preferred: Previous RN circulator experience, completion of Peri-op 101 course, scrub experience
• Other Requirements:
• Ability to perform a variety of duties with efficiency and composure.
• Understanding of patient confidentiality rights and responsibilities.
• Skill in communicating with empathy and compassion towards patients in distress.
• Capability to relate to others fostering teamwork and cooperation.
• Effective therapeutic communication with individuals from diverse backgrounds.
• Commitment to service excellence in customer relations in daily activities.