RN

As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery.

Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

To be successful in this role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

• Assess patients with surgical conditions. Seeks assistance with patients that present unfamiliar or not commonly seen conditions. Can assign patients as low or high risk for surgical complications. Verifies and completes perioperative assessment using available resources. Observes, collects and records data related to patient's biophysical, psychosocial, environmental and self-care ability as well as educational and discharge planning needs. Appropriately assesses adult, adolescent, pediatric and geriatric patients. Identifies and provides for individual patient care needs. Follows National Patient Safety Goals for proper consent, patient identification and right site, side, and procedure verification. Oversees surgical pause.
• Assures that all equipment and supplies are available for procedure. That equipment is functioning normally and if not removes from services as per policy. Follow sterile technique, reports breeches, supports corrections. Wears appropriate PPE.
• Develops and monitors a nursing diagnosis plan of care and patient expected outcome that include nursing intervention during the perioperative phase. Individualized care plans are developed which follow surgery protocols. Uses the nursing process to establish priority needs for each individual patient including special procedures and medication administration. Over sees dispensing and labeling of medication on operative field. Uses the nursing process in setting patient priorities short term intraoperative goals. Communicates with RN Lead as needed bases for the plan of the day. Logs procedures, medication administration, specimen handling and tracking log and status on the operative record during the surgical procedure. Performs proper and complete documentation of patient care in OR.
• Implements the plan of care with the physician, patient, patient's family and other members of the interdisciplinary health care team. Assists surgical team in providing patient care by anticipating physician needs and preparing, handling of surgical instruments, supplies and equipment. Prepares for procedures as indicated by operating room schedule and patient consent. Uses physician preference card to promote positive patient outcome. Follows physician orders according to all prescribed medical regime Provides pre and postoperative teaching to patients undergoing surgical intervention. Collaborates with surgeon regarding patient needs or equipment. Communicates with Anesthesia regarding patient care. Monitors and assesses surgical procedure during the intraoperative phase. Follows hospital and unit based policy and procedures such as , positioning of patients, tourniquet, Laser, Electro cautery/smoke evacuation unit, anesthesia filters etc.
• Provides adequate information and instruction to the patient/family/significant other and initiates measures to meet these needs. Documents teaching on the nurse's notes (MSM).
• Identifies life threatening situations and communicates patient status accurately. Takes effective action. Understands use and application of Malignant Hyperthermia response kit, difficult airway cart, bronchoscope etc.

Required

• Registered Nurse: CA, upon hire and
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire and
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support, upon hire and
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support, within 90 Days
• Must be able to take call shifts as required by departmental needs

Preferred

• Possess and maintain a current nursing certification such as Certified Nurse-Operating Room (CNOR) , Certified Peri-anesthesia Nurse (CPAN), Certified Ambulatory Peri-anesthesia Nurse CAPA), Certified Critical Care Nurse (CCRN), Certification from the Society of Gastroenterology Nurses Association (SGNA)

• Conscious Sedation experience

Please be advised that this location requires quarterly American Heart Association (AHA) Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI) competency certification post-hire.  This ongoing competency is required through resources internal to the facility; outside RQI competency resources are not acceptable for CommonSpirit Health compliance requirements.

Founded in 1873, Dignity Health - Mercy Medical Center is a 186-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Merced, California. Serving over 150,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level II NICU, heart care, the Mercy Cancer Center, and a family birth center. Additionally, Merced Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center.

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