Registered Nurse - Operating Room - Miami, Florida - OR - Operating Room

Registered Nurse - Operating Room - Miami, Florida

This is an OPEN CONTINUOUS ANNOUNCEMENT for Bruce W Carter Department of Veteran Affairs Medical Center looking for Registered Nurse(s) to work in the Nursing Service Operating Room (OR). It will remain open until June 4, 2024. The initial cut-off date for referral of eligible applications will be March 28, 2024. Eligible applications received after this date will be referred at regular intervals or as additional vacancies occur on an as-needed basis until positions are filled.

An Operating Room (OR) Nurse is responsible for the planning, execution, delivering, and evaluating both direct and indirect patient care of surgical patients. Duties range from preoperative to postoperative interventions and other tasks necessary to meet patient's needs throughout surgical procedures, thus ensuring patient safety and continuity of care during the surgical experience.

The OR RN in the circulating role coordinates the care of the patients, serves as the patient's advocate throughout the intraoperative experience, and has responsibility for managing and implementing activities outside the sterile field. Activities are directed toward assuring patient safety and achieving desired patient outcomes. The nursing process is used as a framework for these activities.

Other duties include but are not limited to:

• Providing emotional support to the patients prior to the induction of anesthesia
• Performing ongoing assessment
• Formulating nursing diagnosis
• Developing and implementing a plan of care
• Documenting patient care to accurately reflect patient status and patient care activities
• Evaluating patient outcomes
• Teaching patient and family
• Obtaining appropriate surgical instruments, supplies, and equipment
• Creating and maintaining safe environment
• Assisting a surgeon with surgical positioning
• Administering medications
• Implementing and enforcing policies and procedures that contribute to patient safety, such as surgical checklists, "time- out" protocols, surgical counts for instruments, sharps, and soft goods, and performing equipment checks
• Preparing and disposing of specimens
• Communicating relevant information to other team members and to patients' family
• Entering and maintaining data related to implants and medical devices used during a surgical procedure
• Handling and maintaining Reusable Medical Equipment (RME)
• Providing instructions, guidance, and supervision to surgical technicians and nursing assistants
• Role models safe and effective practices
• Appropriate use of safe patient handling equipment
• Adheres to infection control practices while using equipment and providing patient care
• Follows established SOP's and checklists in the set-up, cleaning, transporting, and storing reusable medical equipment (RME)
• Safely utilizes and maintains VA property and equipment

• Obtaining instruments, equipment, and supplies appropriate for the surgery
• Preparing the sterile field and setting up the sterile table(s)
• Maintaining the integrity and sterility of the sterile field throughout the procedure
• Having knowledge of the procedure and anticipating surgeon's needs throughout the procedure
• Providing instruments, sutures, and supplies to surgeon in appropriate and timely manner
• Preparing sterile dressings
• Implementing procedures that contribute to patient safety, such as surgical counts
• Cleaning and preparing instruments for transport to decontamination area