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Job description
It's more than a career, it's a calling OK-SSM Health St. Anthony Hospital Midwest
Worker Type:
Regular
Job Highlights: Join a team where your work matters -- every moment, every patient, every community. At SSM Health, you'll be empowered to grow, supported to thrive, and inspired to make a lasting impact.
Department: Midwest City, Oklahoma Surgery Department Schedule: Full Time Days (Three 12 hour shifts per week) with call required (30 minute call response time) Sign on bonus eligibility for experienced OR circulators
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Job Summary: Uses the nursing process in care delivery and provides nursing leadership for other patient care personnel. Circulates independently on complex cases.
Job Responsibilities and Requirements: PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
* Demonstrates critical thinking skills in providing care for the perioperative patient by completing a comprehensive preoperative assessment, planning and implementing individualized nursing interventions and evaluating the effectiveness of care and modifying interventions as needed. * Prioritizes multiple complex patient and physician needs to delegate and coordinate the care provided by the surgical team to maximize patient outcomes. * Coordinates patient care assignments to personnel supervised, considering staff competencies, patient population, equipment used, patient condition, environmental factors, infection control, safety factors and availability of direct/indirect supervision. * Communicates effectively with patients, staff and physicians to anticipate needs and develop and implement actions to be taken in response to complaints related to patient care processes. * Maintains and enhances professional clinical skills by seeking out learning situations and remaining abreast of current advances in nursing techniques and technologies. * Serves as a consultant to all personnel in area(s) of nursing expertise. Teaches and mentors other less-experienced RNs and technicians. * Demonstrates advanced clinical judgment as evidenced by knowledge of complex nursing interventions required in multiple surgical specialty areas. * Exhibits willingness to take on special projects and initiates actions that work to improve processes within the department. * As an SSM Health nurse, I will demonstrate the professional nursing standards defined in the professional practice model. * Uses the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses to guide his/her response to the current and evolving health and nursing needs of our patients and our patient populations. * Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner. * Performs other duties as assigned.
EDUCATION
* Graduate of accredited school of nursing or education equivalency for licensing
EXPERIENCE
* Two years' advanced surgical experience
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
* Constant use of speech to share information through oral communication. * Constant standing and walking. * Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs. * Frequent sitting, reaching and keyboard use/data entry. * Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors. * Frequent use of smell to detect/recognize odors. * Frequent use of hearing to receive oral communication, distinguish body sounds and/or hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc. * Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs. * Occasional lifting/moving of patients. * Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting, gripping and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements. * Occasional driving. * Rare crawling and running.
REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS
State of Work Location: Illinois
* Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA) * And * Registered Professional Nurse (RN) - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR)
State of Work Location: Missouri
* Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA) * And * Registered Nurse (RN) - Missouri Division of Professional Registration * Or * Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State
State of Work Location: Oklahoma
* Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA) * And * Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State * Or * Registered Nurse (RN) - Oklahoma Board of Nursing (OBN)
State of Work Location: Wisconsin
* Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA) * And * Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State * Or * Registered Nurse (RN) - Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services
Work Shift: Day Shift (United States of America)
Job Type: Employee
Department: OPERATING ROOM 6111
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 36
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