Travel Nurse RN - OR - Operating Room
Brooklyn, NY
MetaSense, Inc.
3x12 hrs
Referral Bonus

POSSILBE STRIKE CONTRACT! Contingent on strike. Rate will increase with active strike. Request # Job Title  Local Pay Rate   Local Strike Pay Rate   Traveler Pay Rate   Traveler Strike Pay Rate  36690883 IMC - RN - OR  $68.00  $ 96.00  $79.14  $106.62
Required Experience:
-A minimum of 3+ years' experience in an Operating Room setting.

Required Education:
-Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (BSN) required.

Preferred Education:
-Master's Degree in Nursing, preferred.

Required Certifications & Licensure:
-New York State RN License.
-BLS required.


Job Summary:
-Responsible and accountable for utilizing the nursing process in the provision of patient care.
-Operating Room Nurse is responsible for the planning, execution, conducting and evaluating both direct and indirect nursing care to surgical patients.
-The duties range from preoperative interventions to post-operative assessments that could help meet a patient's need throughout the operative care.

Duties and Responsibilities:
-Performs assessment/data collection in an ongoing systematic manner, focusing on physiologic, cognitive, and cultural diversity of the patient.
-Determines mobility, sensory deficits, prostheses use, and skin condition and adjusts plan of care, as appropriate.
-Responsible for supervising and directing patient care in the operating suite while ensuring proper techniques are used.
-Maintains count on sponges, needles and other instruments used in the operating room.
-Collaborates as appropriate with physician and other clinical disciplines in planning interventions to meet patient and family needs.
-Operating Room Nurse also serves as a scrub nurse when necessary.
-Intervenes with proper technique, procedure and safety precautions to meet individual needs of patients and families.
-Prepares the operative area, positions patient adjusts operative table.
-Evaluates and documents patient response to and outcome of care provided and revises plan of care accordingly.
-Ensures all supplies and equipment required are sterile and available for use.
-Observes any changes in the patient's condition.
-Works collaboratively with all members of the healthcare team.
-Performs other duties as required.
-Directs other staff when necessary, report any unusual occurrences to surgeon in charge.
-Ensures all medication s are administered and charted.
-Ensures care of specimens are labeled and secured as per policy.

Physical Demands:
-Involves standing, walking, sitting, talking, hearing and bending.
-May include some repetitive motions.
-Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position without compromising patient care.