*This position will float to our surgery centers in the North Texas region: McKinney, Frisco, MCD, MCOS, Plano, Allen and Anna.
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Job Summary and Qualifications
Join our team as a Perioperative Nurse in our ambulatory surgery center. You will be responsible for planning, executing, and evaluating the nursing care rendered preoperatively and postoperatively until your patients are discharged. As a valued addition to our company, you will exhibit the values of Surgery Ventures powered by HCA Healthcare as a whole, as well as your individual center, providing quality care like family.
What you will do in this role:
- Prepare your patients’ care area adequately before case
- Ensure availability of necessary equipment and supplies for your patients’ procedure
- Conduct complete physical, and psychological assessment and evaluation of your patients’ history and diagnostic tests
- Administer pre-operative medications and intravenous therapy as prescribed
- You will exhibit proper technique for insertion, maintenance, and removal of IV catheters and saline locks
- Check dressings and/or operative site of your patients and report abnormalities to the surgeon
- Ensure your patients meet discharge criteria