Travel Nurse RN - OR - Operating Room
Boston, MA
First Connect Health
3x12 hrs, Days
Referral Bonus

Ideally we would be looking for someone to work the 8-8:30 or 9-9:30 shift

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.