Registered Nurse

Job Summary

At Laser Spine Institute, our RNs are responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating patient care throughout the peri-operative process in our world-class surgical facilities. In our patient-centric environment, the RN is responsible for acting as the patient advocate by ensuring safe and effective care. The peri-operative nurse provides planned and highly skilled nursing care for the immediate pre-operative and post-operative patients. Continuous patient observation by our highly skilled RNs allow for early recognition of medical or surgical complications that may arise in any patient. The circulating nurse is directly responsible for coordinating intra-operative care of the patient and indirectly responsible through collaboration, coordination and information sharing of both pre- and post-operative care.

At Laser Spine Institute, we understand the importance of a Registered Nurse who is both a highly skilled professional and a compassionate individual. We know that its about the people; whether patients or co-workers.

Registered Nurses at Laser Spine Institute are responsible for more than the direct patient care that we know they will provide. They are also responsible for having fun, maintaining a positive work/life balance (no seven-to-sevens here!), acting with integrity in everything they do, and being part of a dynamic and first-class organization.

To paraphrase our CEO, Healthcare is serious business. It can also be fun business.

Essential Functions - Duties & Responsibilities

Responsibilities: Peri-operative Nurse

• Performs accurate and complete patient assessments throughout the peri-operative period. Skilled in patient population age-based competencies, to include fluid and nutritional requirements, skin care and body organ status, hearing and sight alterations and limitations, mobility status, comprehension and cognitive skills, temperature, medication vulnerability, healing restrictions and psycho-social needs.
• The nurse should be competent in technical skills, to include intravenous therapy, catheterization, artificial ventilation and CPR.
• Trains and instructs new personnel
• Includes the patients care person in the teaching to ensure adequate home care.
• Participates in budgetary, marketing, utilization, cost containment and reduction activities.
• Practices economy in the use of time, equipment and supplies.
• Assists in organizing and developing policies and procedures.
• Develops effective communication and interpersonal relationship skills.
• Participates in Quality Improvement activities.
• Utilizes supervisory chain of command.
• Other duties as assigned.

Responsibilities: Circulating Nurse

• (all of the above and the following)
• Acts as nursing team leader during the procedure.
• Assists with pre- and/or post-operative patient assessments, care and teaching.
• Helps prepare room every morning. Assists in the preparation and maintenance of the sterile environment.
• Assists in the proper preparation of supplies, medication, equipment and instrumentation involved in patient care.
• Identifies patient by using at least two identifiers, verbally and by checking ID bracelet and offers a brief explanation of health team members roles.
• Verifies operative site with pre-op nurse, patient, patients care person, consent and physician. Assures correct site is effectively and accurately marked by the physician with patients verbal agreement.
• Serves as patients advocate. Assures patient safety. Maintains environment.
• Performs aseptic surgical prep, assists with draping if appropriate.
• Maintains a constant vigilance on activities, observing for breaks in aseptic technique or safety practices.
• Supervises and participates in sponge, needle and instrument counts as applicable and documents on the operative record.
• Keeps supervisor and physician informed of patients needs and progress.
• Documents activities and care provided. Assess nursing care and goals and patient outcome.
• Assists with room clean-up, turn-over and stocking, checking OR equipment to include all emergency equipment.
• Other duties as assigned.

Execute all duties in accordance with our CHOICE values.

CARE

• Treat others with unconditional respect, dignity and equality.
• Acknowledge a need or concern by pausing from your task
• Customize your approach when meeting with customers (i.e. sitting down at bedside when communicating with a patient.)
• Always go that extra mile.
• Anticipate the needs of others by providing support and assistance before being asked.

HAVE FUN

• Maintain a positive attitude.
• Celebrate the success of your teammates.
• Participate in teambuilding events.
• Look for ways to make co-workers smile.
• Encourage your teammates to meet their goals.

ONE TEAM

• Attend and actively participate in staff meetings.
• Share information with coworkers to achieve team success.
• Cooperate and build collaborative relationships with one another.
• Encourage coworkers to develop their own skills and abilities.

INTEGRITY

• Behave ethically by demonstrating honesty, maintaining high standards and by always doing the right thing even when nobody is looking.
• Take ownership of mistakes without placing blame - apologize quickly.
• Demonstrate reliability and responsibility.
• Maintain confidentiality.
• Meet deadlines and follow through on all commitments.

COMMITMENT

• Follow established patient, employee and environment of care safety policies and procedures.
• Constantly work to improve job-related knowledge.
• Promptly report and/or correct unsafe acts or conditions in the workplace. .
• Provide education to department staff when applicable and necessary.

EXCELLENCE

• Consistently look for opportunities to exceed our customer's expectations by personalizing your approach.
• Be on time.
• Acknowledge a customer's presence immediately by making eye contact, smiling and introducing yourself.
• Search for opportunities to improve processes.
• Submit innovative ideas to improve the way we do business.
• Actively pursue development goals and career objectives.

Qualifications & Requirements

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Must possess demonstrated communication skills which indicate the ability to be successful at counseling and teaching.
• Must display comprehensive and current knowledge of general nursing theory and practice including basic disciplines relating to nursing such as bio-, psycho, social and medical sciences and their application to nursing and patient care.
• Adequate understanding of operative procedures, required patient preparations and expected post-operative course.
• Must display knowledge of the underlying principles of treatment and nursing procedures.
• Complete knowledge and understanding of peri-operative nursing care in the freestanding ambulatory surgery unit.
• Adequate understanding of a wide variety of medical/surgical pathophysiology and terminology.
• Awareness of symptoms and possible complications of surgery and anesthesia and initial treatment and subsequent nursing interventions.
• Knowledge should be up-to-date on the actions of all pharmaceuticals and anesthetic agents.
• Have a working knowledge of fluid and electrolyte balance.
• Must be organized and work efficiently under pressure
• Must be patient-focused and compassionate

Required Qualifications:
Education:

• Associates degree in nursing and graduation from an accredited school of nursing

Experience:

License/Certifications:

• Current registered nursing license in the state of employment,
• BLS Certification and ACLS Certification current orobtained within 90 days of start of employment

Preferred Qualifications:
Education:

• Bachelors degree in nursing

Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years nursing experience, preferable in peri-operative nursing

License/Certifications:

A CULTURE DESIGNED WITH YOU IN MIND:

YOUR WELLNESS: Substantial, generous benefits program
YOUR CAREER EVOLUTION: LSI University offers robust career expansion with continued learning opportunities and career advancement ladders
YOUR TIME: Balance between your professional career and personal life
YOUR ENVIRONMENT: LSI offers a resilient community culture where employee spirit is abundant, smiles surround you, people are respected and recognized, accomplishments are revered, and everyone knows you by name