RN - Operating Room (Full-time, Days) Canonsburg

Highmark Health; Boon Terrace (PA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Allegheny Health Network is seeking a qualified perioperative nurse to deliver professional nursing care in preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative settings for patients undergoing operative procedures.

The role encompasses scrub and circulating responsibilities, assisting the surgeon with hemostasis, suturing, and wound exposure, and ensuring proper patient positioning throughout the procedure.

Qualifications

• Current State of PA RN licensure or current multi-state licensure through eNLC.
• CPR certification.
• Act 34 Criminal Background Clearance Certificate
• Act 33 Child Abuse Clearance Certificate
• Act 73 FBI Fingerprinting Criminal Background Clearance Certificate

Responsibilities

• Delivers professional nursing care in preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative settings.
• Performs scrub functions including instrument and supply handling used during procedures.
• Performs circulating functions including monitoring patient condition and coordinating nursing care before, during, and after procedures.
• Assists operating physician with surgical tasks such as hemostasis, suturing, wound exposure, and patient positioning.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Job description

Company : Allegheny Health Network Job Description : GENERAL OVERVIEW Delivers professional nursing care in the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative settings to patients undergoing operative or other invasive procedures.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Performs scrub functions including the selection and handling of instruments and supplies used during procedure.(40%) Performs circulating functions including monitoring, recording and communicating patient condition and managing overall nursing care of patient before, during and after procedure.(40%) Assists operating physician with surgical tasks including hemostasis, suturing and wound exposure as well as patient positioning.(20%) Performs other duties as assigned or required.

QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Current State of PA RN licensure OR Current multi-state licensure through the enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC).

Additional Employment Requirements

Act 34 Criminal Background Clearance Certificate Act 33 Child Abuse Clearance Certificate Act 73 FBI Fingerprinting Criminal Background Clearance Certificate CPR certification

Compliance Requirement

The job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and essential duties and responsibilities of work performed by employees within this job title. It may not contain a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to do this job. Compliance Requirement: This job adheres to the ethical and legal standards and behavioral expectations as set forth in the code of business conduct and company policies. As a component of job responsibilities, employees may have access to covered information, cardholder data, or other confidential customer information that must be protected at all times. In connection with this, all employees must comply with both the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) as described in the Notice of Privacy Practices and Privacy Policies and Procedures as well as all data security guidelines established within the Company’s Handbook of Privacy Policies and Practices and Information Security Policy. Furthermore, it is every employee’s responsibility to comply with the company’s Code of Business Conduct. This includes but is not limited to adherence to applicable federal and state laws, rules, and regulations as well as company policies and training requirements. Highmark Health and its affiliates prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on any category protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. California Consumer Privacy Act Employees, Contractors, and Applicants Notice Highmark Health is a national, blended health organization that includes one of America’s largest Blue Cross Blue Shield insurers and a growing regional hospital and physician network. Based in Pittsburgh, Pa., Highmark Health’s 35,000 employees serve millions of customers nationwide through the nonprofit organization’s affiliated businesses, which include Highmark Inc., Allegheny Health Network, HM Insurance Group, United Concordia Dental, HM Health Solutions and HM Home & Community Services. Highmark Health’s businesses proudly serve a broad spectrum of health-related needs including health insurance, health care delivery, population health management, dental solutions, reinsurance solutions, and innovative, technology solutions.