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RN- OR CIRCULATOR (FULL TIME & PRN Available)

Status/Type: Non-Exempt

Department: OR

Shift: Days

Reports: OR DIRECTOR

Original Date: 13/01/2025

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General Summary

The RN Circulator manages all the necessary care inside the surgery room, assisting the team in maintaining and creating a comfortable, safe environment for the patient and observing the team from a wide perspective. Serves as a liaison between surgeons, anesthesiologists, O.R. Manager, and staff. Ensures all surgical team members perform in a unified effort. Serves as a patient advocate. Responsible for the smooth and uneventful intraoperative care.

Duties and Responsibilities

  • • Utilizes assessment skills and tools to identify problems, needs and intervention.
  • • Recognizes patient's and family's need for instructions and initiates appropriate action.
  • • Sets priorities for action, based on problem-solving process, common sense, and meeting patient care priorities.
  • • Recognizes and responds appropriately to signs, symptoms of health threatening changes and reports abnormal results of diagnostic studies to appropriate physician.
  • • Utilizes work assignment to develop special abilities of individuals and meet special needs of patients/significant others.
  • • Actively participates in daily refrigerator temperature and defibrillator check and documents appropriately.
  • • Documents in a clear, concise, accurate, and legible manner.
  • • Documents the necessary information to communicate the patient's progress based on the established plan of care.
  • • Selects and initiates appropriate forms at appropriate time(s).
  • • Reviews and implements changes in physician's orders throughout patient care.
  • • Assists with the change process involved in implementing new forms within the O.R. Department.
  • • Maintains a positive and professional attitude at all times, works cooperatively and effectively with all members of health care team.
  • • Communicates patient issues and/or problems to Unit Manager and/or Director of Nursing.
  • • Communicates with physicians, unit personnel and other departments in a courteous and professional manner.
  • • Attends and participates in mandatory in services and unit meetings.

Education/Qualifications

  • 1. Graduation from an accredited nursing program and at least one (1) year of recent experience as an O.R. Nurse (RN)
  • 2. Unrestricted Registered Nurse license issued by the Louisiana State Board of Nursing
  • 3. Successful completion of orientation and demonstration of competence.
  • 4. Must have current BLS which follows the American Heart Association guidelines. ACLS must be obtained within (3) months of date of hire. PALS must be obtained within (3) months of date of hire for Full and Part Time Employees. PALS is not required for PRN Nurses.

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