CVOR Registered Nurse

Department: Surgery- CVOR
Shift/Schedule: Full Time (40 hrs/wk)

GENERAL SUMMARY

Works under the supervision of the CVOR Nurse Manager. The registered nurse assesses, plans, implements, evaluates, and supervises individualized patient care in the Operating Room. Policies and procedures for the department are maintained during this period of caring for the patient. The RN accepts responsibility for the direction of co-workers in the implementation of the plan of care.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education:
• High School Diploma or successful completion of an equivalent High School Exam Required
• Graduate from an accredited school of nursing required
• BSN preferred

Licensure:
• Licensed to practice as an RN in Ohio required
• BLS within 90 days of hire required
• ACLS within 1 year of hire required
• CNOR preferred

Experience:
• Cardiac, thoracic, and vascular operating room experience preferred.
• One year operating room nursing experience preferred.

JOB SPECIFIC DUTIES AND PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS

The following is a summary of the major job duties of this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.
1. Develops nursing care through the framework of nursing process.
2. Engages in patient assessment including collecting, organizing and prioritizing patient data with development of plan of care.
3. Facilitates patient/family teaching as appropriate; evaluates and documents effectiveness of the teaching.
4. Evaluates care in terms of patient outcome, including physiological, psychological, and spiritual well being.
5. Collaborates with other health care professionals; fosters nurse-physician-staff work relationships; maintains service oriented environment for patients/families.
6. Assists in other unit activities as defined by the CVOR Nurse Manager.
7. Performs circulating and scrub roles as assigned, following AORN standards of practice.
8. Performs “on-call” duties as required.
9. Contains costs associated with the delivery of quality patient care.
10. Maintains professional standards by participating in inservices, committees, etc.
11. Maintains positive interaction with customers by contributing and fostering the team approach in all unit operations.
12. Respond appropriately to emergency call (off-shift) and immediate “bring-back” patients
13. Demonstrate a knowledge and be able to assist with cardiopulmonary bypass cannulae
14. Assist with valvular repair and implantation (this includes valve preparation and sizing)
15. Assess and operate temporary cardiac pacemakers
16. Assist and perform internal defibrillation
17. Assist and operate cardiac dysrhythmia ablation devices
18. Understand and treat basic parameters of CV hemodynamics
19. Assist with and “set-up” off-pump stabilizing devices
20. Knowledge and assisting with operation of the Intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP)
21. Functional knowledge and assist with set-up of endoscopic video equipment (vein harvest)
22. Pre-cleans, decontaminates and transports contaminated instruments according to policy
23. Performs intermediate-level disinfection and/ or high level disinfection per the Instructions for Use (IFU) by the manufacture. This includes ensuring the scopes or probes used within the department are cleaned, disinfected, maintained and stored per the IFU’s.

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