Operating Room Registered Nurse

Graystone Ophthalmology Associates Pa; Hickory (NC); On-site; USD 60,000 - 82,000; Full time

Job summary

Graystone Ophthalmology Associates Pa seeks a registered nurse for preoperative and perioperative coordination in a single operating room at the Hickory office. The role emphasizes leadership, patient advocacy, and collaboration with the surgical team to ensure safety and comfort.

Responsibilities include supervising nursing staff, organizing supplies and schedules, maintaining aseptic technique, and contributing to patient education and continuity of care throughout the perioperative process.

Qualifications

• RN with an active license in the appropriate state.
• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing.
• Strong leadership and teamwork abilities.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and direct patient care in a single operating room.
• Organize nursing activities and delegate tasks.
• Coordinate with anesthesia and surgical teams.
• Maintain patient privacy and dignity.
• Monitor safety, aseptic technique, and equipment readiness.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Problem solving

Education

RN with active license

Graduation from accredited nursing program

Tools

BLS certification

ACLS certification within 1 year

Job description

Job DetailsJob Location: Hickory Office - HICKORY, NC 28603Position Type: Full TimeGraystone Eye is looking for an individual who is willing to serve our patients with one vision in mind:

Achieving Exemplary

Clinical Outcomes

Providing an

Unparalleled Experience for Patients, Employees and Families

MAIN FUNCTION

Supervises and directs patient care in a single operating room.

COVID-19 VACCINATION

In accordance with CMS Interim Final Rule, Omnibus COVID-19 Health Care Staff vaccination: this position must have received or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccination by date of hire.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

1. Philosophy

• Supports the facility’s ideology, mission, goals, and objectives
• Performs in accordance with the facility’s policies and procedures
• Follows the facility’s standards for ethical business conduct
• Conducts self as a positive role model and team member
• Recognizes patients’ rights and responsibilities and supports them in performance of job duties
• Participates in facility committees, meetings, in-services, and activities

2. Communication

• Communicates effectively and professionally with patients, visitors, physicians, and coworkers
• Interacts with others in a positive, respectful, and considerate manner

3. Financial practices

• Uses facility resources appropriately and avoids wasteful practices
• Reports wasteful practices
• Analyzes work area and makes recommendations for potential cost-effective improvements

4. Compliance program

• Contributes to the progress and development of the organization’s adopted compliance program
• Performs according to established compliance policies and procedures

5. Performance-improvement program

• Contributes to the progress and development of the organization’s adopted performance-improvement program
• Performs according to established performance-improvement policies and procedures

6. Safety/risk-management program

• Adheres to safety policies and procedures in performing job duties and responsibilities
• Reports observed or suspected safety violations, hazards, and policy/procedure noncompliance to the safety officer or other designated person

7. Professional competence

• Participates in continuing education and other learning experiences
• Shares knowledge gained in continuing education with staff
• Maintains membership in relevant professional organizations
• Seeks new learning experiences by accepting challenging opportunities and responsibilities
• Develops teaching programs as requested for use in surgical or medical management, safety, health awareness, and enhancement of patient care
• Develops and maintains current materials for teaching and consent procedures
• Implements approved teaching programs as requested
• Monitors the patient education and counseling programs to assess quality and areas for improvement
• Evaluates the outcome of teaching and counseling programs as they pertain to patients’ overall satisfaction with the surgical experience
• Welcomes suggestions and recommendations

8. Duties

• Participates as a team member in support of the total perioperative process
• Organizes time, equipment, supplies, and personnel to provide effective and efficient case management
• Supervises and directs patient care in a single operating room
• Organizes nursing activities efficiently and effectively
• Delegates activities appropriate to the abilities of available staff members
• Considers cost containment by using supplies economically and in effective turnover time
• Assists with supply, drug, and equipment inventories to maintain stock level and availability
• Addresses patient needs during admission to the operating room, with attention to requirements specific to the outpatient setting
• Transports patients to the operating room observing policies/procedures, safety requirements, and patient needs
• Identifies the patient and correct surgical intervention according to policy/procedure and communicates such information to all members of the surgical team
• Reviews patients’ medical records/needs to plan care with other healthcare team members
• Provides comfort and reassurance to patient
• Maintains patients’ privacy and dignity
• Explains intraoperative phase of routine procedures and care to the patient
• Performs the circulating nurse’s role and functions following approved operating room procedures to meet the requirements of scheduled procedures
• Prepares operating room according to requirements of patient/procedure to be performed
• Assembles and provides properly functioning equipment, supplies, and instruments before start of procedure and positions and adjusts equipment as required during the procedure
• Anticipates needs of surgical team and assists anesthesia personnel by supporting patient during administration of anesthesia
• Assists with the proper and safe positioning of the patient and prepares operative site as directed by established procedures
• Monitors compliance with principles of aseptic technique according to accepted standards
• Assists with identification and confirmation of operative site
• Provides for comfort in the physical environment by monitoring designated parameters
• Provides continuity of patient care by communicating with other perioperative care personnel and documenting records accordingly
• Responds in a timely manner to meet the needs of the patient and physician
• Accurately comprehends and interprets verbal orders/directions
• Documents patient care records and other forms accurately following policies and procedures
• Accurately advises others responsible for the care of the patient about the patient’s status

Qualifications

• Cooperative work attitude toward co-employees, management, patients, visitors, and physicians
• Ability to promote a favorable facility image with physicians, patients, insurance companies, and the general public
• Ability to make decisions and solve problems

REQUIREMENTS

Required

• High school graduate or GED certificate recipient
• Graduate of accredited school of nursing
• RN with an active license in the appropriate state
• BLS certification
• Evidence of leadership qualities
• Strong ethical and moral character references
• Language skills adequate for high-level written, interpersonal and telephone communication in American English
• ACLS certification within one year of permanent employment

Preferred

• 1. ASC experience
• 2. Computer literacy

JOB QUALITY REQUIREMENTS

• Accuracy
• Attention to detail
• Timeliness
• Organization
• Little supervision needed to accomplish tasks

DEPENDABILITY

• Attendance
• Punctuality
• Ability to follow instructions
• Ability to meet deadlines

PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to sit/stand for long periods; ability to walk
• Capability for occasional overhead and low reaching
• Physical strength for equipment needs and patient-care activities
• Visual and auditory acuity for timely response and patient-care assessment activities
• Ability to move quickly in response to patient needs
• Ability to make frequent judgments and respond to routine problems
• Ability to make occasional judgments and respond to disasters or emergencies, actual events, or drills

WORKING CONDITIONS (ENVIORMENTAL)

• Well-lit and ventilated, with non-hazardous and hazardous equipment
• Category I: involves occupational exposure to blood and other potentially infectious body fluids and materials

CONTACTS

• Patients
• Patients’ family/significant others
• Physicians and physician office personnel
• Facility personnel
• Vendors
• Administration
• Medical director
• Governing body

Reports to: Chief Surgical Administrator