Under direction of the Emergency Services Manager, provides direct nursing care to patients utilizing the nursing process, performs technical nursing functions and upholds the standard of practice of a professional nurse.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Utilizes the nursing process as the basis for nursing care.
• Provides patient care relative to operating room nursing practice.
• Performs nursing functions, applying professional skills; pre-operative; intra-operative; post-operative.
• Documents and maintains date on patient's record.
• Maintains safe environment, equipment, supplies, asepsis.
• Applies basic teaching / learning concepts to patient education.
• Provides for life support.
• Acts as a patient advocate.
• Cooperates as a member of the nursing unit, department and overall hospital team.
• Participates in performance improvement.
• Delegates and / or supervises aspects of care to team...