Surgical Registered Nurse - Day Shift, Growth & Benefits

Southern Ohio Medical Center; Portsmouth (OH); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay with quarterly market

Performance-based annual increase and

Bonus eligibility

Up to 4% employer contributions to 403

Cash Balance Pension

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Flexible spending accounts

Earned Wage Access

Paid Time Off bank with 3 annual sick

Life insurance and disability coverage

Tuition and certification assistance

Club LC - gym membership discount

Employee discount and payroll deduct

And many other benefit offerings!

Job summary

Southern Ohio Medical Center in Portsmouth, OH seeks a Registered Nurse for the Operating Room. The role supports patient care under the Nurse Manager of Surgery, performing nursing assessments, planning, and evaluation within the nursing process.

The RN will direct co-workers and ensure care is consistent with established policies and procedures. Responsibilities include patient assessment, plan of care development, family teaching, care evaluation, and collaboration with health professionals.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent required.
• Graduate from an accredited School of Nursing required.

Responsibilities

• Develops nursing care through the framework of nursing process.
• Engages in patient assessment including collecting, organizing and prioritizing patient data with development of plan of care.
• Facilitates patient/family teaching as appropriate.
• Evaluates care in terms of patient outcome, including physiological, psychological, and spiritual well being.
• Collaborates with other health care professionals; fosters nurse-physician-staff work relationships.
• Assists in other unit activities as defined by the Nurse Manager of Surgery.
• Performs circulating and scrub roles as assigned, following AORN standards of practice.
• Performs “on-call” duties as required.
• Contains costs associated with the delivery of quality patient care.
• Maintains professional standards by participating in in-services, committees, etc.
• Maintains positive interaction with customers by contributing and fostering the team approach in all unit operations.
• Pre-cleans, decontaminates and transports contaminated instruments according to policy
• Performs intermediate-level disinfection and/ or high level disinfection per the Instructions for Use (IFU) by the manufacture. This includes ensuring the scopes or probes used within the department are cleaned, disinfected, maintained and stored per the IFU’s

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Graduate from an accredited School of Nursing

Job description

Southern Ohio Medical Center in Portsmouth, OH seeks a Registered Nurse for the Operating Room. The role supports patient care under the Nurse Manager of Surgery, performing nursing assessments, planning, and evaluation within the nursing process.

The RN will direct co-workers and ensure care is consistent with established policies and procedures. Responsibilities include patient assessment, plan of care development, family teaching, care evaluation, and collaboration with health professionals.