Travel Nurse RN - OR - Operating Room
Hermiston, OR
AHS Staffing
3x12 hrs, Days

3x12's flex, Definition of Position:
The Registered Nurse specializing in perioperative nursing practice during intraoperative surgical experience. Responsible for the delivery of safe, effective, and quality patient-family centered care in the operating room and other areas of perioperative services for all patient populations. The perioperative nurse acts as the patient advocate and is responsible for the direction and supervision of any personnel assigned to him/her. He/she will be on call for the Surgery Unit on a regular scheduled rotation.
Essential Job Functions:
Accept responsibility for the direction, control, planning, of an activity
Make evaluations and decisions based on measurable or verifiable criteria
Work independently
Implement the plan of care by:
o Protecting the patient from injury caused by extraneous objects and chemical, electrical, laser, mechanical, and thermal sources.
o Performing accounting procedures to protect the patient from unintended retained surgical items.
o Performing interventions necessary to ensure that the patients procedure is performed on the correct site, side, and level.
o Managing the patients specimens according to organizational policy and procedures.
o Communicating the patients status to relevant parties throughout the continuum of care.
o Administering medications safely and correctly.
o Performing interventions to maintain the patients wound and tissue perfusion at or above baseline levels.
o Performing interventions to maintain the status of the patients genitourinary, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, endocrine, respiratory, cardiovascular, and neurological systems and fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balances at or above baseline levels.
o Performing interventions to protect the patient from surgical site infection.
o Protecting the patients rights, dignity, and privacy.
o Providing age-specific, culturally competent, ethical care within legal standards of practice.
o Providing consistent and comparable care regardless of the setting.
Document nursing care accurately, completely, and legibly.
Collaborate effectively with other disciplines as applicable.
Use problem-solving and conflict resolution skills to foster effective work relationships with team members.
Maintain required competencies.
Pursue professional growth and participating in a professional organization.
Act as a patient advocate and maintain privacy and confidentiality of individuals and health information.
The employee supports the hospital mission, vision, values, policies, and procedures.
Participates in required education for DNV programs as applicable to position (reference program education curriculum).
Agency nurses will be floated to other departments where they are qualified to perform patient care before core staff is floated.
Performs other related duties as assigned.