Registered Nurse

Job Description

• Promotes the mission, vision, and values of the organization.
• Provides competent and ethical care within legal standards of practice as applicable to the RNFA.
• Participating in preoperative assessment and planning for selected surgical patients in collaboration with perioperative team members in the preoperative location;
• Recognizing safety hazards and initiating appropriate preventative and corrective actions;
• Providing exposure through appropriate use of instruments, retractors, suctioning, and sponging techniques;
• Handling and dissecting tissues in collaboration with the surgeon.
• Clamping blood vessels, coagulating bleeding points, ligating vessels, and performing other procedures in collaboration with the surgeon.
• Suturing muscle, fascia, subcutaneous, and skin tissue in collaboration with the surgeon.
• Placing drains as surgically indicated.
• Assisting with cannulation and decanulation procedures, if indicated.
• Following selected surgical patients postoperatively in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
• Serves as an educator, mentor, consultant, and resource to colleagues and other health care professionals in relation to RNFA activities.
• Works as a professional colleague with the perioperative team and influences multidisciplinary relationships by enhancing collaborative processes.
• Maintains regulatory, credentialing, and privileging requirements.
• Completes RNFA-specific competencies.
• Pursues professional growth related to both perioperative nursing and RNFA practice and participates in a professional organization.
• Acts as a patient advocate and maintains privacy and confidentiality of all appropriate information.
• Responsible for completing charge capture education and in-service training for their Institute within CCAD. When charges are not captured automatically the nurse will complete within Epic in real time, Perioperative Services within 24 business hours