Registered Nurse | Operating Room | NYCHH

Job Description:

Delivers and ensures patient care by assessing and diagnosing patient’s condition, developing plan of care and evaluating patient’s response to care. 

Roles & Responsibility:

• Systematically assess patient’s physical and psychosocial health through physical examination and data collection.
• Utilizes clinical resources in implementing patient care and provides rationale for patient care decisions.
• Conducts clinical rounds, provides emergency care and administers medications to patient.
• Performs and assists with procedures and treatments on unit including but not limited to changing dressings, feeding patients and providing pre/post operative care.
• Documents patient care, as required on all appropriate forms.
• Performs the responsibilities of charge nurse and preceptor and documents patient care.

Requirements:

• Two years of Scrub and circulating experience is required. IV insertion and phlebotomy skill conscious sedation experience.
• Phlebotomy skill and conscious sedation experience required.
• Current license to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse in New York State.
• IV Certification - required; AORN - preferred.
• Graduate from an accredited School of Nursing. Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing, preferred.