**Sign on bonus eligible**
Provides direct and indirect patient care in surgical specialties of General, Gynecologic, Orthopedic, Otolaryngology, Neurosurgical, Plastic, Oral, Vascular, Thoracic, Urological, and Cardiac utilizing the nursing process and current clinical knowledge to provide professional nursing care for all patients in the surgical unit. Utilizes advanced knowledge and experience to assess the health needs of patients, collaborates with health team members to coordinate patient care, anticipates the outcomes of nursing interventions and sets criteria for the quality of patient care. Provides patient and staff education, clinical supervision, and assesses the need for and implements unit/specialty based activities (quality improvement, inservices, etc.). Participates in unit management activities (i.e. scheduling, budget issues, counseling) provides supervision for staff as needed, and assumes an increasing leadership responsibility for professional practice in the unit. Acts in a Supervisor or Managerial capacity as needed. Demonstrates knowledge of human growth and development, assessment, range of treatment, and care appropriate to the ages of patients serves. This position services the following populations: neonate, infant, child, adolescent, adult and geriatric.
II. Essential Job Functions
Culture of Caring: Demonstrates a caring attitude and displays compassionate behaviors in all interactions with patients and their families. Works with diverse populations, including neonates, infants, children, adolescents, adults and geriatrics and integrates individual patient/family preferences into the plan of care. Provides appropriate emotional, physical, and spiritual support and comfort to patients, families, and coworkers. Provides direct patient care as required. Accurately assesses the patient, develops a plan of care that meets individual patient needs and follows established nursing standards of care/practice and applicable hospital/departmental policies and procedures. Delivers nursing care with respect to individual spiritual and cultural needs.
Culture of Safety: Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served on his/her assigned unit. Utilizes the principles of growth and development across the life span. Interprets assessment data reflective of the patient’s status. Selects the appropriate information needed to identify each patient’s requirements relative to his/her age specific needs. Verifies surgeon, identifies the patient and operative site. Ensures informed consent and History and Physical are complete and present according to policy guidelines. Initiates and/or actively participates in the Universal Protocol procedures that assure correct site surgery. Responsible for the performance and maintenance of sponges, instruments and sharps counts. Follows established policies and procedures. Informs the surgeon and other team members of any discrepancy in the count.
Completes documentation as required. Positions patients, provides protection of pressure points, keeps body parts in proper alignment and modifies positioning to reduce potential injury. Prepares, handles and documents specimens according to established hospital and departmental policies and procedures. Delivers medication according to policy, identifies and views medication label concurrently with the scrub person and ensures all solutions in all containers are labeled. Identifies unsafe patient care practices and employs measures for intervention. Protects patient information based on hospital policy and government regulations to assure information is kept confidential. Participates in unit and hospital efforts to reduce adverse employee or patient care events. Demonstrates understanding and integration of The Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals into nursing practice.
Communication: Communicates clearly all pertinent patient information to other members of the health care team, including but not limited to effective patient hand-offs. Anticipates the needs of the patient and/or case during the hand-off. Receives and gives patient reports to appropriate nursing area as necessary to ensure continued quality care (breaks, lunch relief, shift change, etc.) Receives and gives report at shift change to oncoming staff for the purpose of update and information sharing regarding specialty. Conducts employee counseling and performance reviews. Exhibits an advanced level of positive communication skills. Applies effective conflict resolution skills. Uses diplomacy when dealing with employees, physicians and others. Communicates effectively across lines with staff, customers, suppliers. Facilitates trust. Demonstrates effective communication, feedback and conflict resolution skills in all interpersonal interactions. Works effectively and constructively with co-workers and physicians.
Excellence: Performs scrub duties as necessary, keeps skills current. Performs circulating duties efficiently and effectively. Monitors supplies and maintains equipment for the specialty. May be responsible for special orders. Advises, directs, and engages team members in the selection and preparation of routine supplies, instruments, and equipment for surgical procedures. Notifies circulator of missing or malfunctioning instruments and any of suspect sterility. Provides and anticipates the needs and requests of the surgeon. Ensures that appropriate instrumentation and supplies are readily available in the room or on the sterile field. Provides support for new initiatives and assists with positive change management by adapting to the demands of the situation. Assesses equipment needs of the specialty, meets those needs by utilizing inter-facility resources. Serves as a resource in the budgeting process. Seeks guidance when necessary. Supports surgical service’s efforts to exceed patient satisfaction rates for the individual facility, consistently using scripted language that promotes excellent patient satisfaction responses. Supports efforts to exceed targets for employee engagement, recruitment, and retention for the individual facility. Speaks positively about the department, the organization, and the initiatives underway. Maintains medical records and documentation consistent with hospital policy, JCAHO, state and federal regulations including but not limited to entry legibility, completeness and timely completion. Strives to provide quality patient care that is cost effective by cooperating with efforts to appropriately manage the use of valuable hospital and human resources.
Innovation: Participates in relevant quality improvement activities. Achieves nursing outcomes that consistently meet or exceed generally accepted clinical standards for the nursing discipline. Maintains preference list of physicians and procedures. Reviews individual, unit and specialty data for all dimensions of performance and applies this data to continually improve patient care activities. Demonstrates an understanding of current research literature in area of practice and participates in unit or hospital based research activities as appropriate. Participates in, and helps plan, education and development and implementation of unit and departmental education. Advises, precepts, and teaches staff. Serves as intra-facility resource for unit inservice educational needs. Identifies opportunities for improvement in the areas of cost, quality and service
Professionalism: Actively supports the professional practice model and participates in efforts related to key foundational elements. Practices appropriate behavior as outlined in the “employee code of conduct” policy toward members of the hospital and medical staff, patients, or their families.
Accepts responsibility and accountability for ethical/legal behavior. Utilizes professional practice standards, (AORN, etc.) in the delivery of care, and for self-assessment. Holds others accountable to the same standards. Objectively critiques own nursing practice, identifies self learning needs and employs resources to meet those needs. Sets clear, measurable professional practice goals and identifies opportunities for professional growth. Earns ten (10) contact hours (CH) of continuing education each fiscal year and submits CH certificates. CH equivalents: (1 CH = 1 CME, 1 CEU = 10 CH). Maintains a professional profile. Serves as a mentor to staff.
Teamwork: Acts in a professional and respectful manner with patients, physicians, and other hospital personnel to enhance a spirit of cooperation and mutual respect and trust among members of the patient care team. Advocates on behalf of patient/family to connect them with appropriate resources to meet identified needs and address concerns. Participates and encourages teammates in room turnover procedures to include set-up and clean-up protocols, including but not limited to putting away supplies and equipment. Demonstrates awareness of clinical and administrative resources and uses them appropriately in meeting patient/family or coworker needs. Participates in nursing shared governance activities at the unit/division level to improve patient care and clinical outcomes (i.e. JCAHO compliance, performance improvement, safety). Demonstrates ability to manage the Daily Surgery Schedule as required. Responsible for daily assignments of specialty team members. Coordinates care delivery to achieve optimal patient outcomes and physician satisfaction
Other Job Functions: On call for emergencies and available for additional duty. Evaluates procedures, policies and equipment for compatibility with current technology and research. Assists in developing and revising policies and procedures at the unit and departmental level. Recommends new supplies and equipment to be tested and/or evaluated. Assists with orientation, precepting, and clinical education of new personnel and affiliated students.
This document is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements, or working conditions associated with the job. Employees may be required to perform other job related duties as required by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodation.
III. Patient Population
The following must be included in all position descriptions that involve direct or indirect patient care. This is a Joint Commission requirement. Also, select the age of the patient population served:
Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served on his or her assigned unit.
Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development of the life span and possesses the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interprets the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his or her age, specific needs and to provide the care needed as described in departmental policies and procedures.
Neonates (0-4 weeks)
Adolescents (13-17 years)
Infant (1-12 months)
Adults (18-64 years).
Pediatrics (1-12 years)
Geriatrics (65 years and older)
Not applicable to this position.
IV. Employment Qualifications
Required Minimum Education: 2 Year/ Associates Degree
Specialty/Major: Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
Preferred Education: 4 year/ Bachelors Degree
Specialty/Major: Pre operative nursing, including post surgical care
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Licensure/Certification Required: CPR, License in the State of Virginia or awaiting reciprocity.
Licensure/Certification Preferred: BSN Preferred
Minimum Years and Type of Experience: 3 years of experience in perioperative nursing, including post surgical care.
Other Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required: Must attain and maintain PNAP level II by the end of 120 days (if a challenge date is available) or then by the end of the tenth month (or next review date) of being in the position. If the employee is actively engaged in BSN or MSN curriculum, then initial challenge requirement is waived until the BSN or MSN curriculum is complete or stopped.
Other Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Preferred: Ability to teach and use group processes.
Combination of post-secondary education and experience in lieu of a degree.
V. Working Conditions
This section addresses the physical environment in which the employee will perform the work.
Periods of high stress and fluctuating workloads may occur.
Long-distance or air travel as needed- not to exceed 10% travel.
General office environment.
May be exposed to high noise levels and bright lights.
May be exposed to physical altercations and verbal abuse.
May be exposed to limited hazardous substances or body fluids.*
May be required to use physical restraints.
May be exposed to human blood and other potentially infectious materials.*
May be exposed to adverse weather conditions; cold, hot, dust, wind, etc.
May have periods of constant interruptions.
Required to car travel to off-site locations, occasionally in adverse weather conditions.
Prolonged periods of working alone.
* Individuals in this position are required to exercise universal precautions, use personal protective equipment and devices, and learn the policies concerning infection control.
VII. Additional Physical Requirements/ Hazards
Physical Requirements Hazards
Select if a physical requirement for this job. Select if a potential hazard for this job.
Manual dexterity (eye/hand coordination)
Depth perception
Perform shift work
Use of Latex Gloves
Maneuver weight of patients
Exposure to toxic/caustic/chemicals/detergents
Hear alarms/telephone/tape recorder
Exposure to moving mechanical parts
Reach above shoulder
Exposure to dust/fumes
Repetitive arm/hand movements
Exposure to potential electrical shock
Finger Dexterity
Exposure to x ray/electromagnetic energy
Color Vision
Exposure to high pitched noises
Acuity – far
Gaseous risk exposure
Acuity – near
Comprehensive, affordable medical, dental and vision plans
Prescription drug coverage
Flexible spending accounts
Life insurance w/AD&D
Employer contributions to retirement savings plan when eligible
Paid time off
Educational Assistance
And much more
*Benefits offerings vary according to employment status
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