Registered Nurse - Operating Room

Duties

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Pay Scale: NU48

RNs in the Operating Room (OR) are responsible for the direct care of the patient.

The RN is primarily responsible and accountable for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating direct and indirect nursing care, and identifying outcomes for patients in the OR setting.

The OR Nurse is responsible for coordinating patient care delivery to ensure quality care according to established standards of care/practice, policy, and procedure. The specific patient population to whom direct care is provided includes adults with a wide variety of different conditions during the perioperative period. The practice of the nurse is characterized by leadership in improving patient care. The OR provides the following services: general surgery, ear, nose, and throat, ophthalmic, orthopedic, vascular, thoracic, urologic, plastic, podiatric, neurosurgery and laparoscopic. The nurse has the technical and operational knowledge and clinical skills to function as a circulating and scrub nurse in all services. He/she monitors activities occurring within the department when acting in the charge nurse capacity.

As an RN assigned to the operating room, the nurse is primarily responsible for applying the nursing process to the care of veteran patients undergoing surgical procedures in the operating room. This includes, but is not limited to assuring that appropriate documentation reflects assessment of patient needs, interdisciplinary treatment plans, clinical intervention, and evaluation of patients' responses to treatments. The nurse is also responsible for assigning and evaluating the work on non-nursing direct care providers assigned to the operating room. In addition, the nurse demonstrates proficiency in practice based on conscious and deliberate planning and is self-directed in setting goals for managing the care of the adult and geriatric patients, in accordance with the Medical Center, VAHQ standards of practice, AORN and AAMI standards. The incumbent provides direct nursing care to individual and groups of patients under the guidance and direction of the Operating Room Nurse Manager and assists with the direction and supervision of ancillary personnel. Total independence is exercised, and accountability is at a maximum.

1. Knowledge of Operating Room standards
2. Knowledge of all aspects of sterile technique
3. Ability to accurately and expeditiously assess the physical and psychosocial needs of the patient
4. Ability to function as a Charge Nurse and supervise actions of other team members.
5. Skill in administering care as prescribed by the anesthesiologist, and surgeon.
6. Ability to collaborate with members of the surgical and multidisciplinary team.

Pay: Competitive salary, regular salary increases, potential for performance awards
Paid Time Off: 50 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year)
Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA
Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)
Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday, various shifts, including evening, weekend and on call. (Tours such as 7:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. and 9:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.)
Telework: Not Available
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: May Be Authorized
EDRP Authorized: Contact visn9hredrp@va.gov, the EDRP Coordinator for questions/assistance. Learn more
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required for this position.