Description:
DescriptionAssists in the daily clinical operations of the Preop/PACU in accordance with established federal, state, and accreditation standards and facility policies and procedures. Participates in direct patient care including maintaining a clean, orderly and safe environment:
Essential Competencies / Performance Expectations:
Clinical Skills
- Assesses patient/significant others understanding of disease process and need for
- surgical intervention.
- Performs pre/post-operative teaching to patient/significant other.
- Demonstrates appropriate nursing management and intervention preoperatively and
- postoperatively.
- Assess the patient for level of recovery from anesthesia.
- Provides effective airway management postoperatively.
- Assesses and manages postoperative complications, such as nausea and vomiting.
- Provides wound assessment and management to ensure uncomplicated wound healing.
- Provides safe medication administration.
- Manages patient complications/emergencies preoperatively and postoperatively.
- Manages and documents controlled substance inventory.
- Utilizes aseptic technique and infection control principles to establish and maintain
- intravenous access.
- Reports significant patient information to medical staff appropriately.
- Demonstrates knowledge and skill in caring for the latex-sensitive patient.
- Initiates and follows procedure protocol.
- Demonstrates appropriate care for the patient experiencing pain.
- Demonstrates techniques to relieve a patient's pain and evaluates the effectiveness of the
- techniques used.
- Documents patient response during the postoperative period.
- Facilitates actions and activities that support accountability to practice.
- Identifies and initiates problem resolution.
- Actively participates, develops, and implements activities and measures promoting
- quality care.
Requirements:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty mentioned satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Education/Experience/Licenses/Certificates/Eligibility:
- Current Arkansas RN license
- BLS required.
- Two (2) years' experience of clinical experience with an emphasis in PACU, surgery or ER required. Knowledge of regulatory standards.
- ACLS required
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