Surgical Services Float Pool- Operating Room RN

Overview

It is the responsibility of every Novant Health team member to deliver the most remarkable patient experience in every dimension, every time.

• Our team members are part of an environment that fosters team work, team member engagement and community involvement.
• The successful team member has a commitment to leveraging diversity and inclusion in support of quality care.
• All Novant Health team members are responsible for fostering a safe patient environment driven by the principles of “First Do No Harm”.

Qualifications

• Education: Associate degree required. Bachelor’s degree preferred. Graduate of an accredited school of nursing required. If your RN nursing license has been inactive, retired or lapsed for five years or more and you have not been licensed in another state during the last five years, successful completion of a Board approved refresher course is required prior to reactivating or reinstating your license. In order to be considered for current licensure status, you must apply for reinstatement within one year of completing the refresher course
• Experience: A minimum of two years relevant experience required.
• License/Certification: Current RN licensure in appropriate state; Advanced certifications as required per facility required. Specialty certification preferred.
• Additonal skills required: 
• Appropriate customer service, effective and appropriate customer relations, verbal and non-verbal communication techniques, interpersonal relationship skills, conflict resolution, critical thinking and computer literacy.
• Advanced training as required by department.
• Ability to set priorities and organize workload of unit.
• Knowledge and skills necessary to modify care according to patient’s age.
• Has the ability to interpret information to identify each patient’s requirements for care relative to his/her specific needs.
• Reviews the results of studies relevant to the patient’s current status and operative/invasive procedure.
• Objectively evaluate suggestions, grievances and processes to identify opportunities to improve performance and quality of care.
• Provides comfort and reassurance to patient and family.
• Maintains patient’s privacy, confidentiality and dignity.
• Maintains current knowledge of and adheres to professional agency’s standards, position statements, guidelines or recommended practices, i.e. AORN, ASPAN, SGNA, etc.
• Completes individualized orientation, demonstrates skill proficiency, participates in ongoing education activities relevant to issues and trends in perioperative nursing and strives to achieve certification.
• Incorporates research findings into practice, seeks evidence based knowledge and participates in research activities by involvement.

Responsibilities

It is the responsibility of every Novant Health team member to deliver the most remarkable patient experience in every dimension, every time.

• Our team members are part of an environment that fosters team work, team member engagement and community involvement.
• The successful team member has a commitment to leveraging diversity and inclusion in support of quality care.
• All Novant Health team members are responsible for fostering a safe patient environment driven by the principles of “First Do No Harm”.

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